Has the Purple Dye “recipe” changed?

[PFDarkside]

The deeper and richer one is the example on the VIP page and the pinkish out one is the one in the showcase today. IMO the example one looks much better. Has something changed with the dye recipe or formulation recently? The VIP is not that old so the example has to be reasonable recent.

Or is the photography/lighting/color balance different now?

 

[cuthbert]

I strongly suspect that purpleburst is difficult to photograph, the wood grain might have an influence but I also agreee the old picture showed less gradient between the edge and the centre...more than a dye it looks like a proper burst.

This is also true for turquoise, this body was sold along with the current purple one:



The "burst" effect is the same, amd to my eyes it looks more green than blue.

 

[PFDarkside]

I strongly suspect that purpleburst is difficult to photograph, the wood grain might have an influence but I also agreee the old picture showed less gradient between the edge and the centre...more than a dye it looks like a proper burst.

This is also true for turquoise, this body was sold along with the current purple one:

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The "burst" effect is the same, amd to my eyes it looks more green than blue.

Actually I was thinking the same thing for turquoise dye as well. Here are some older Turquoise dyed bodies I saved before the old system went down. Although the Turquoise looks a lot closer than the Purple.

 

[cuthbert]

There is virtually no gradient in these bodies, the dye looks like the one on my HP2.



Personally I don' t dislike the "new course", I just hope they will make my matching headstock as sunburst as the body.

 

[Wolff05]

I believe some things have changed with the purple dye in the last decade. Just because those VIP bodies are now on the showcase, doesn't mean they weren't in the paint department since 2019. I still have some items back there that they just don't have the time to finish painting/buffing due to the demand for custom orders.

The 3 examples of Turquoise dye supplied by PFDarkside are all examples without a burst.

 

[ghostrider]

I think you have two things to address... the burst over (variations) vs clean line and the actual core color of the dye.

I really want to get a turquoise dye or tiger eye on a custom body, but I never know what the burst-over will look like. Some of them are subtle and amazing and others are a very hard burst with no gradient (no thank you). My guess has always been that it just depends who's doing the burst that particular day.

The actual color variation in the purple dye could very well be the difference in the wood. Different wood species and different pieces of wood in the same species, for that matter, can absorb dye differently.