britguy -> How long before face changes colour? (Sep. 30 2013 19:30:15)
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I have a few older guitars and a few newer ones. Most of them have spruce faces, but the colour is not always the same. The older guitars have much nicer coloured faces, more mature somehow. Slightly darker and deeper than the newer guitars. Although I suspect that originally the colours were probably very similar? What factors influence the colour change on guitars? Is it purely age, or do different woods age differently. Do French-polished guitars deepen in colour differently from lacquered ones? My three newer instruments are all under three years old. They all have French-polished, light, 'natural' colour faces. I was wondering how long it may take before the colour starts to deepen, and become more like the older instruments? Or maybe they might not? Any thoughts???
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