Oxblood colour example help

darcym

All,

put a google search of "oxblood" into google and you get everything from jet black, to wine red,

The pantone definition for Oxblood is this

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/b/0/0/a8/1/AAAAC8uWkJsAAAAAAKgcCw.jpg?v=1263902664000

This is not my memory of the classic oxblood guitar colouring, I'm thinking of the very matte black, so matte it's almost grey, with the pantone colour above bleeding through, almost like a red glow on it.

What can you show me as an example of this ?

WezV

search for oxblood les paul

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=oxblood+les+paul&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=YBqoVK2HHoTV7Qb_04HYDg&ved=0CCAQsAQ

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/pepejara/Les Paul/Oxblood2.jpg

darcym

that's one of the best I'd found, along with this one

<a href="http://s126.photobucket.com/user/dynasonic/media/LPF/BeckOxblood49g.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p81/dynasonic/LPF/BeckOxblood49g.jpg~original" border="0" alt=" photo BeckOxblood49g.jpg"/></a> 

WezV

The link i posted shows loads varying between wine red and black - but mostly black

Nomad

This sort of thing can't really be worked out from photographs unless there's a reference colour chart in the same photo and, ideally, your monitor has been calibrated to show the chart correctly.

The differences in lighting when the photo was taken, the exposure and white balance of the camera (and how accurate it is if used in an auto mode), not to mention the base colour of the wood that the guitar is made from, all contribute to skewing how it looks.

cacophony

aren`t the `red` doc martins also meant to be oxblood.

what you need to do, is find someone who`s got an ox...

bandmaster188

cacophony said:

aren`t the `red` doc martins also meant to be oxblood.

what you need to do, is find someone who`s got an ox...

^this. Proper oxblood. These doc martens are made from ox skin and dyed with the blood of the dead ox. It's true! http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee512/bandmaster188/imagejpg1_zps992cd52b.jpg