That's what I meant by posting outliers. We've established that the trans-red/black/green all exist in reasonable numbers and that there are lots of Bluesbird P-90s out there in other finishes, so let's try and sort out what one-off/extra colors we've seen out there on actual Blues 90s.
Black Cherry/Ebony Transparent/Emerald Green Transparent show as standard
for Blues 90's on
'01 price list, but no "reds".
Regarding the reds and the "black cherry" distinction... I've never paid too much attention before,
but do you guys think these are two intentionally different colors?
Yes and the first one's not Black Cherry, either.
(There's a chip of "Black Cherry" in the '01
Fender Frontline catalog)
I'd almost say the first one's an earlier Westerly and the 2nd one is a Corona, if they'd made 'em there.
Second one looks more like Fiesta Red, but suspect it was actually called something else, being transparent.
Lacking price lists for years from '97-'01,showing standard colors, it's hard to nail down what it might have been.
For the difference between
Ebony Transparent and Black Cherry:
Ebony Transparent from
here:
This guitar is described as being "charcoal" but it's so redded-out on my tube at least, that I suspect it's actually a "Black Cherry".
Interestingly that listing also says the guitar was acquired from our own Hans Moust whom we know to be an aficionado of black guitars....
If nothing else it also shows how far colors can drift across the variables of the imaging device, the hosting platforms, and the final display device:
So while that
could explain the differences in the 2 reds above, I suspect those actually are 2 different colors. They're just too different.