GLR (Guild Limited Run) models? Oy.

[GAD]

I think the pink hues are reflections off the shiny hardware. Ask GAD what he thinks it is.

White is impossible to judge via digital photography without knowing how the camera was set and what the light source was.

As JohnW63 points your perception of white may also change based on things nearby - especially reflective things. In this case I think part of the problem is that our brains may be seeing the DeArmond tops as white and desperately wanting the guitar to be some other color because it's not the same.

I also kind of find it hard to believe that Guild would release a white guitar that wan't truly white, though there are many flavors of white when it comes to such things. White is a fairly easy color to create when it comes to pigments, at least as I understand it. A little titanium dioxide goes a long way.

 

[GAD]

Here - this should stir things up a bit. That's a 255-255-255 block of white in the middle, so now you can see that none of it is white except for maybe the over-exposed switch tip.

 

[SFIV1967]

so now you can see that none of it is white except for maybe the over-exposed switch tip.

Guild calls the color "Faded White" and also in other shop picturs I have seen it looks pinkish...

Ralf

 

[banjomike]

Is the disagreement here over the guitar or the description terminology?

White is a very good show-guitar color that looks especially good when the player is wearing a tuxedo. Like black, white goes with everything, so it won't ever conflict with a wildly colored stage costume.
,,,and that's why it has been offered as an optional color (or special model) since the late 1920s

 

[chazmo]

Is the disagreement here over the guitar or the description terminology?

Good question. I know I started the thread because "GLR" just tweaked me... But we seem to have veered rather far from that.