Vintage tint neck

[Alfie]

This may well fall into the category of silly questions. Are vintage tint supposed to look like a neck that has aged, or did old basses have their necks tinted?

I only ask because I was looking at a AV57 and was wondering whether that was actually what the bass would have looked like in 1957, or would the it have had a much whiter maple neck?

[Ancient Mariner]

Generally it's to make them look old - vintage necks were not tinted originally AFAIK, although there may have been a faint colouration to the nitro that would reduce the utter bone-whiteness compared to a new poly-coated neck

[Alfie]

[quote name='Ancient Mariner' post='795191' date='Apr 3 2010, 06:42 PM']Generally it's to make them look old - vintage necks were not tinted originally AFAIK, although there may have been a faint colouration to the nitro that would reduce the utter bone-whiteness compared to a new poly-coated neck[/quote]

So vintage tint necks aren't that far removed from fake relcing then. I always thought the American Vintage series and the 51 were reissues, but I guess they are more like closet classics.