Request for Vintage Chlorine Pictures

[mrNasch]

I´m waiting for my KE2 custom select to arrive, chlorine finish... hope I it will be a really nice chlorine finish.

[MetalDaze]

I bet a Kelly in Chlorine will look great!

[MetalDaze]

Looks like this is a recent custom shop one:

[SkullCrusher]

[mrNasch]

Yea, seen that Kelly. Is there a quilted maple top on that one? The site that sold it specced it as a quilted top. It´s really different compared to the PC1.

[MikeStrat]

[neilli]

Nice! That has a newer look though, which makes sense as I think those were like 2005 / 2006 right?

[shreddermon]

It's amazing how different chlorine has become right? Even your (Pat) recent 'old school' one doesn't look anything much like the originals..

You know, this comment brought back a memory of when I bought my first PC1. It was mid-to-late 90s, and GMW was still a Jackson dealer. At the time, Lee had a big stock of PC1s on his website - like 12 or 15 of them. He had a page with small pics of each, that you could click on to get larger pics. Wish I had a screen grab of back then. LOL. Almost all were chlorine, at the time. I remember agonizing for several days, staring at those pics, trying to pick one to buy. They were all so great, it was a tough choice! Some were darker, some were lighter. The quilts were all great, although some figuring was better than others. And some had really nice burst patterns, while a couple were like your's Ian, with little burst at all. The one I chose was a medium dark burst compared to the others. Not as dark as the one I have now, but closer to that than many others in this thread. ...I had that guitar for several years, wish I never sold it!

Anyway, that memory coming back made me realize that there was a fair bit of variation even back then. (Although ALL were loads better than what you see on a standard PC1 now.). And it also made me realize that - as you see with older Les Paul's and such - the dye on these earlier guitars is fading as the years go by. So what we're seeing on many of these chlorines now ISN'T how they looked when they left the Ontario shop 15 to 20ish years ago. Except for the odd guitar stuck in a closet for years unused, the finish on many of these guitars was originally darker. So - like a LP "light burst" or such - our ideals and memories of these guitars is being influenced by the passage of time and that impact on the finishes.

[shreddermon]

Mike, that guitar is drop dead gorgeous. I think this is a really good representative of what the old style vintage chlorines looked like originally, when new. Wish they still did them all like this. ...If you ever decide to sell that one, try to remember to give me a shout.

The newer chlorine, like the pics of that Kelly and DK, is poor in comparison. It's more like a light to dark blue burst, no aqua at all. And way too dark. Plus the non-analyne finishes hide the quilt underneath. And it's like they spray the burst edge with a gun, there's no fade transition at all It's an abrupt one color to the next.

[ken]

There was a CS RR with amazing top in chlorine done with aniline dye, owned by cerealkiller. I thought I had pictures somewhere, but only seem to have the headstock...

[Radiohead]

Love the Chlorine finish. I tried to replicate is once. Just got light blue....

[shreddermon]

Some better pics of my vintage chlorine...

[shreddermon]

Old pic of my first PC1. Never should have sold her!...

[shreddermon]

Another original PC1 I found on my hard drive. Think this was from a former Jackson dealer down in Texas, I forget their name...

[shreddermon]

There was a CS RR with amazing top in chlorine done with aniline dye, owned by cerealkiller. I thought I had pictures somewhere, but only seem to have the headstock...

I remember that one. Actually, I think there were two similar RRs done like that, maybe a couple of years apart. One was a guy in the states, and IIRC another was someone in Europe. Wish I still had pics of those!