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Location: Caribou, ME | I picked up some kind of weird black light. I believe it's for use in the auto repair trade, where they put some kind of dye in your oil or anti-freeze and then use a light to find a leak. I thought maybe I could use it in guitar repair, as I have often heard they use black lights to spot repairs or finish touch ups. I tried using it for that on guitars I knew had repairs and touchups and I didn't see anything. So I really have no use for it. I'll flip it. But here's some normal light pics follwed by blacklight pics.... ain't this weird? Anything metal looks purple/black, sunbursts turn almost white... stuff just looks altogether wrong.
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Location: Taxed To Death State | Cool. My kids would have a blast with that light. |
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Location: Utah | Next time you stay in a hotel check out the chair, couch, bed cover, and carpet with that black light ... |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | FlySig - 2014-04-26 3:54 PM Next time you stay in a hotel check out the chair, couch, bed cover, and carpet with that black light ... Oh, no you didn't!  |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I wondered about that.
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Location: Utah | AstroDan - 2014-04-26 4:07 PM
FlySig - 2014-04-26 3:54 PM Next time you stay in a hotel check out the chair, couch, bed cover, and carpet with that black light ... Oh, no you didn't!
It wasn't me! |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I tried it again in a much darker room. I lit up my '71 Les Paul and the entire guitar glowed a puke Green just like I read it would. I lit up my '69 B-45-12 and it too glowed puke green except for a repaired top crack (with touch up). That glowed black and orange. I had often suspected the neck had been reset. Where the neck joins the body it was pure black. Ditto for a strap button crack that I had no knowledge of. I'm keeping this toy! |
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Location: Flahdaw | FlySig - 2014-04-26 4:54 PM
Next time you stay in a hotel check out the chair, couch, bed cover, and carpet with that black light ...
Imagine the condition of a hotel room after a Usual Suspects gathering......
Edited by BobG 2014-04-26 7:31 PM
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Do ALL bodily fluids glow under a black light? ewwwww. |
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Location: Flahdaw | cholloway - 2014-04-27 6:54 PM
Do ALL bodily fluids glow under a black light? ewwwww.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOwTnxL4S8Q |
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Location: Maine | I was once told and shown (many many years ago) that there were some situations where Ovation used UV "glow in the dark " ink within the body's of some guitars. Used as a traceability marker? I can't recall if it was for FRG's or warranty stuff or something entirely different.
I have personally seen the ink and it's ability to glow under black light yet be invisible in ambient light. Cool stuff to see as a young kid
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | It was so you could tell the difference between "1st quality" (no mark), "AAA" ( A. cosmetic flaw), or "Second" (B. structural flaw and therefore without warranty.) |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I looked through all my Applauses about a year ago with a regular black light bulb, one my sister gave me for Christmas in 1973 and it still works... I couldn't find any 'grading' marks on any as per Alison's statement. Either they're all "A Grade", any ink is faded away, or a regular bulb doesn't cut it. I may look again with the monster light. About 10 years ago I rescued a '65 Fender Palomino. A section of binding was missing so I grafted in a piece. Pretty ho-hum stuff, and the repair looks fine. Yes, you can see it if you look, but it doesn't jump out at you. However under the mega-light....
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | We didn't stamp them for the first couple or three years I worked there so not all of them got stamped. |
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Black light fun