They kind of change from what I've seen. No real "year" to buy them from. I have a STBLK F-400 and it's black in some light, purple in other light.
artifice, depends of the light, camera, etc... But they are all purple/dark... Especially maple.
All depends on lighting. My V looks anywhere between blue, grey and purple. Under most 'normal' lighting it is black/grey though as it should be. Flash photos tend to make them look purple.
sometimes they look green too... I know that Jackson's trans black on alder sometimes had a greenish hue to it, and I had an LTD STBL that was kinda a funky muddy looking color.
its just hard to stain something black, when the wood has a natural yellow tint to it.
I love the purplish looking one!
i think it looks sweeter than the grey/black.
wow my first band was called artifice , wow that is fuckin crazy never seen that word anywhere
My Horizon FRII looks more purple than grey. It depends on the lighting as well.
I really dig the purpleish look, so much that i want that colour as THE colour of a couple custom ideas i have :lol.
I would like mine to look gray when I take pictures instead of purple.
Yeh, I think I like the grey looking ones more too. Anyway, I've decided to buy a neck through M-II in solid black with EMG's instead of the Horizon so it doesn't really matter. Purple isn't really my favorite color.
It's because ESP doesn't care about their customers so they have crappy QC on their paint jobs.
:lol
It's because ESP doesn't care about their customers so they have crappy QC on their paint jobs.
:lol
schecter reigns supreme with crappy finishes, practically every trans finish hellraiser I've used has had some problems with the finish somewhere
schecters are on the same production line as ESPs I believe. same company/factory/ etc
schecters are on the same production line as ESPs I believe. same company/factory/ etc
They are completely different companies. The only connection is that they are now owned by the same person.
I have a Kramer eclipse type guitar that looks green, but they call it see throuhg black. Looks great though.
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Depends of the woods. It will always look like this. This is impossible to get a real trans 'black'.
Woods, pigments, chemical properties and varnish process are done like this.