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Faded Gibson finish


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Colours appear as colours to us due to which frequencies of the visable light spectrum they absorb. Red has the longest wavelength through to violet which has the shortest. If a material absorbs the longer wavelengths and reflects only the shortest it will appear red (turn the light off so there's none to reflect and everything loses its colour). 

For something to appear red it has to absorb all the other wavelengths of light, getting progressively shorter as you move up the spectrum. Shorter wavelengths have more energy and destroy the pigments in paint quicker than the less energetic long wavelengths, causing red pigments to lose their 'colour' the quickest. 

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