Learn something new every day

How many of you are familiar with the classic 50s Gibson color, "TV yellow?" Well, it looks like this:

That is a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Jr., and THAT is what guitars are all about. See how the yellow color is somewhat greenish? That is a result of the yellow dye chemically reacting with the mahogany body of the guitar. If the same yellow dye were to be up on a guitar of, say, alder, it would come out as a flat, plain yellow.

Moral of the story: you learn something new every day!

From Wiki:

Later, in 1955, Gibson launched the Les Paul TV model^[10], which was essentially a Junior with what Gibson called a natural finish. This finish was actually more of a translucent mustard yellow through which the wood grain could be seen, and was not unlike the finish that competitor Fender called butterscotch yellow. The idea behind this TV Yellow was that white guitars would glare too much on early black and white television broadcasts, whereas TV Yellow guitars would not cast a glare.^[11]