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Originally Posted by Fret Wilkes
I was noticing in a photo that the butterscotch blonde on my 52RI is quite close to the color of my 73 Martin D28s aged spruce top. The Martin also has a blackguard.
Could Leo have been trying to emulate the look of an old Martin or an aged spruce top in general when he originally came up with butterscotch?
I remember Fuzzy suggesting that the color came from furniture of the day and posted a photo of an example.
Fuzzy is usually right about this kind of thing, but the thought crossed my mind.
Fret
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The way I understand it is that the butterscotch result is just a yellowing of the lacquer that was used over the "blonde" prior to '54. It is not an actual paint color. Sometime in '54 they changed to a different lacquer.