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Title: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: ilan on November 08, 2011, 11:01:48 PM: White, TV Yellow and Sea Green, and they are making 5 of each, according to the Pick of the Ricks website.

http://www.pickofthericks.com/productimage.php?product_id=385

I thought it looked a bit more like yellowed Blueboy in the pics. Original Sea Greens were brighter colored.

EDIT: officially they are designated Special Green, not Sea Green.

(http://www.pickofthericks.com/product_images/s/191/11_4001c64SG_40006__77947_zoom.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: Chris P. on November 09, 2011, 03:59:13 AM: Very cool!

I talked to mr. Hall some weeks ago and he told me they have time and space again to make some special ones, lefties, et etera.
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: Dave W on November 09, 2011, 08:54:21 AM: You're right, that looks nothing like the sea greens of about 10 years ago.

A Rick in TV Yellow? Why?

$3800? Yikes! Granted, it's a C64, but that's a lot extra for an ugly special color.
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: gearHed289 on November 09, 2011, 09:31:53 AM: Quote from: Dave W on November 09, 2011, 08:54:21 AM
You're right, that looks nothing like the sea greens of about 10 years ago.

A Rick in TV Yellow? Why?

$3800? Yikes! Granted, it's a C64, but that's a lot extra for an ugly special color.

And a backward headstock...
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: cheyenne on November 13, 2011, 06:27:33 AM: Those sure look nice, but for that kind of cash I think I'd lean a little more in this direction.

http://mikelull.com/Instruments/TBass_Large.htm
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: dadagoboi on November 13, 2011, 10:46:12 AM: Quote from: cheyenne on November 13, 2011, 06:27:33 AM
Those sure look nice, but for that kind of cash I think I'd lean a little more in this direction.

http://mikelull.com/Instruments/TBass_Large.htm

Apples and Oranges. Through neck vs bolt on for one thing. The original owner of the design vs. an interpretation of a classic for another.
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: Barklessdog on November 17, 2011, 06:42:45 AM: Love the green. Do they use nitro paint?
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: gearHed289 on November 17, 2011, 09:57:53 AM: For years it was conversion varnish. They recently started using a UV cured poly of some sort. Ilan?
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: ilan on November 17, 2011, 11:37:09 PM: Yes, UV-cured polyester is what they are using since last year.

POTR now have the white ones:

(http://www.pickofthericks.com/product_images/e/170/11_4001c64WHT_40004__24366_zoom.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: leftybass on November 18, 2011, 08:16:28 AM: When I have my 4001S-LH refinished in white it'll look just like that.
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: ilan on November 18, 2011, 09:27:24 AM: You mean the MMT bass?
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: gearHed289 on November 18, 2011, 02:28:40 PM: I have also decided that my 4003S is going to go from JG to white. ;D
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: leftybass on November 21, 2011, 11:14:43 AM: Quote from: ilan on November 18, 2011, 09:27:24 AM
You mean the MMT bass?

Yep. When the band breaks up I'm getting the bass refinned white. Of course it may be a while, we're in our 20th year, with no sign of slowing down.
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: uwe on November 23, 2011, 11:25:16 AM: Quote from: Dave W on November 09, 2011, 08:54:21 AM
You're right, that looks nothing like the sea greens of about 10 years ago.

A Rick in TV Yellow? Why?

$3800? Yikes! Granted, it's a C64, but that's a lot extra for an ugly special color.

Silly question. Of course so it doesn't distort and get all glary when shot in black and white. As if you hadn't known. Dave!

This is the TV Yellow one, clearly, and not a glare in sight! Amazing. Could have sworn it is white, but yet it isn't.

(http://www.pickofthericks.com/product_images/e/170/11_4001c64WHT_40004__24366_zoom.jpg)

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zJ9I1SROl7M/THYAKHYD7mI/AAAAAAAAAGU/r8omfVoK2UU/s1600/Angel_smile-329x226.png)
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: popp on November 23, 2011, 02:12:40 PM: Stunning. The special green one is just delicious. The white one too :mrgreen:
I thought this thread was about a computer reissue when I first read the title...
:rolleyes:
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: Dave W on November 23, 2011, 08:31:57 PM: Quote from: uwe on November 23, 2011, 11:25:16 AM
Silly question. Of course so it doesn't distort and get all glary when shot in black and white. As if you hadn't known. Dave!

This is the TV Yellow one, clearly, and not a glare in sight! Amazing. Could have sworn it is white, but yet it isn't.

(http://www.pickofthericks.com/product_images/e/170/11_4001c64WHT_40004__24366_zoom.jpg)

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zJ9I1SROl7M/THYAKHYD7mI/AAAAAAAAAGU/r8omfVoK2UU/s1600/Angel_smile-329x226.png)

:mrgreen:

Sure, or it was named TV Yellow after the TV show that Les Paul remembers having for seven years but never actually had at all.

Or because of his 18 month Listerine commercial series that never featured a TV Yellow guitar.

Or maybe it was named after the TV advertising that Gibson never did in the 50s.
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: ilan on November 30, 2011, 12:12:40 AM: And now in "TV Yellow" which is unlike Gibson's color of the same name. More like Fender's Canary Yellow.

(http://www.pickofthericks.com/product_images/a/232/11_4001c64TVY_40011__30859_zoom.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: Dave W on November 30, 2011, 08:26:08 AM: That's really awful.
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: hieronymous on November 30, 2011, 09:21:52 AM: On the RickResource Forum, John Hall chimed in that he thought the photos that are available aren't an accurate representation of the color and that it is actually more like the Gibson color.
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: gearHed289 on November 30, 2011, 10:23:29 AM: I think I'll be sticking with this one....

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/259824_1978920831197_1188420788_31837565_6745347_n.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: leftybass on November 30, 2011, 11:28:15 AM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/basses013-1.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: ilan on February 03, 2012, 06:09:06 PM: Olivia's now have all 3 colors on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/sch/oliviasvintage/m.html?_nkw=c64&_sacat=0&_odkw=c6&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3911.c0.m270.l1313)... $13,770 will get you all three. Drool-worthy high-res pics as always.

(http://photos.imageevent.com/olivias/2011r4001c64white121211/large/IMG_85093.JPG)(http://photos.imageevent.com/olivias/2011r4001c64tvy122011/large/IMG_96313.JPG)(http://photos.imageevent.com/olivias/2011r4001seagreen11212/large/IMG_28133.JPG)
Title: Re: 3 new colors for a limited edition C64
Post by: Dave W on February 03, 2012, 10:49:59 PM: At first glance I thought the one on the right was light blue, lighter than a Blue Boy. Looking at more photos, you can tell it's green.

Still don't like that "TV Yellow."