The sky and ocean aren’t blue because of reflections at all they’re both blue, but each of their own volition. For the gas giant worlds that are blue, that actually is due to the color of the skies themselves.īut on Earth? Our atmosphere is thin enough that it cannot be responsible for our planet’s coloration. (Neptune is richer in ices, and has a greater variety of compounds, hence its different shade.) In large enough concentrations, methane is a little better at absorbing red light and a little better at reflecting blue light than the other wavelengths, while hydrogen and helium and mostly transparent to all frequencies of visible light. Uranus and Neptune, our Solar System's other two blue worlds, have atmospheres made primarily of hydrogen, helium and methane. I don’t really like the appearance of laurel, and most pau ferro fretboards only look good with a small number of finishes.Images credit: NASA / Voyager 2, of Neptune (L) and Uranus (R). One of my nicest looking and feeling fretboards is black Richlite.

I’d personally be on board with using dark synthetic fretboards if the alternative is subpar pieces of rosewood or ebony. It’s less an issue of cheaping out, and more an issue of sustainability and overharvesting.

The quality definitely seems more inconsistent now compared to a decade or so ago, but it’s an endangered wood species and pieces that would have been rejected in the past for odd streaking are being used now. The rosewood fretboard on my 2019 American Performer Tele has some odd streaking and I’m pretty sure it was dyed, but it’s still rosewood - just a little odd looking. Any examples of woods other than rosewood being used on expensive American guitars? Most imports are using light brown laurel or pau ferro, not rosewood.

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