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Old 01-25-2020, 10:41 PM
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Default What Causes This Color?

Following up on my "bleached spruce" thread, last fall, I got this brand new Blueridge guitar. Yesterday, I had some discussions with BR online, and they assured me that there's no aging toner on this guitar model (BR-240A) and that the yellow color is caused by the Poly finish. But since they fed me a line about other guitar companies bleaching their spruce tops, I have less trust in their response.

I've never owned an acoustic guitar with a poly finish before. Would a new Adi top guitar really be this yellow, due to the finish? Or do you think there's some tint or aging toner being used. It doesn't matter to me... I'm just trying to understand the truth of how it was made, and whether the color will change over time. I have plenty of natural finish guitars, but none that look like this one.








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