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Am I the only one who has trouble telling the difference between cherry and brown, when it comes to special faded models? I just bought a second hand special faded and it looks cherry in dark lighting, but brown in bright... Below is a picture of the subject. Please help me determine its color... Any thoughts on the matter would also be greatly appreciated...

 

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Thanks in advance :)

 

Simon

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Am I the only one who has trouble telling the difference between cherry and brown, when it comes to special faded models? I just bought a second hand special faded and it looks cherry in dark lighting, but brown in bright... Below is a picture of the subject. Please help me determine its color... Any thoughts on the matter would also be greatly appreciated...

 

sgengl.jpg

 

Thanks in advance :)

 

Simon

 

I have a brown one and it's exactly the same colour as yours.

 

Alan

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I'm guessing that that first picture is of an extremely faded/worn cherry SG. All the later pics seem like Worn Brown. But I am by no means sure of my judgement in this, so anyone, please correct or confirm this for me. Just my recommendation.

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I'm guessing that that first picture is of an extremely faded/worn cherry SG. All the later pics seem like Worn Brown. But I am by no means sure of my judgement in this, so anyone, please correct or confirm this for me. Just my recommendation.

 

All of the owners of a faded brown who've chipped in above disagree. Unless its a very, very old Cherry (and not that long in the grand scheme that fadeds have been made) I still say it has to be brown.

 

I wonder how these faded specials are going to age actually. I know the nitro will fairly speedily wear away at the key contact points but I wonder whether the base colours will fade in the same way as some vintage models have.

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Am I the only one who has trouble telling the difference between cherry and brown, when it comes to special faded models? I just bought a second hand special faded and it looks cherry in dark lighting, but brown in bright... Below is a picture of the subject. Please help me determine its color... Any thoughts on the matter would also be greatly appreciated...

 

sgengl.jpg

 

Thanks in advance :)

 

Simon

 

I have a faded special in cherry and a LP studio in faded brown, and it looks exactly like my LP, gotta go with brown

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