On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 05:29:46 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Feb 5, 8:15*am, mm wrote:
Is all harvest gold the same?

A guy who does home remodeling tells me he has a harvest gold electric
stove in good condition from 1970. *

Mine in a Whirlpool and matches the color of my Whirlpool
refrigerator.

Did more than one company make the same color and if so, were they
really the same color???

It's an hour or two away from here. *I wish I had started with home
remodelers right here, but I didn't**. *I don't have to buy it until I
see it, but it means driving a couple hours and probably renting a
trailer which is a nuisance and a little money.

So what are the odds the colors are the same?

**I was about to buy a replacment thermostat for the current stove. I
had moved the stove to look at the one it has now, and I only bumped
it a little, something that wouddn't hurt it normally, but the fire
changed the inside window glass and it shattered. *

Is it possible to buy a piece of such glass and cut it to fit the
window opening? *The part is not available from Whirlpool.

Can I move the outer window to the inside and replace the outer window
with lexan? *Any other ideas?

Thanks.

You can buy a brand new stove

I thought of heading this off in the first post but thought it would
look cranky of me. Trader, you give a lot of good help to me and
others here, for which I'm very grateful, truly, but I want a harvest
gold stove, to match my harvest gold fridge. White and stainless are
okay, and if I had no modern kitchen before, those appliances would be
fantastic, but they are not improvements from my childhood, like
harvest gold was and still is.

(My mother had a pink washer and dryer, Whirlpool, bought in 1957.
Even though it's pink, for girls, I would sort of like that because
it's not the same old white.)

If you're hell bent on that stove, have the guy take a pic of it and
see what it looks like.

I am afraid that color rendition could change at any of the several
steps in this, and exact would only look close or close would look
exact.

I would suspect that "harvest gold" was made by more
than one manufacturer. Even if only one made it, the exact color could
have changed from 72 to 78, etc.

You're probably right. Maybe I can either find one nearby before he
gets impatient with me, or I can find something else to do there to
make the trip worthwhile if the stove isn't right.


Red said:
Dunno but also consider any color fading will depend on the individual
location of where it was. May be negligible as well. Won't know for sure
until they are near each other. Bring yours along :-)

Good point. I can easily bring the drawer. The side that has been
agaisnt the wall isn't visibly different from the front, but my
kitchen faces north and the stove is on the other side of the room
anyhow. But his might be much faded.

Hey, I just looked at mine, and it doesnt' even match itself. The top
is lighter than the front! I thought maybe cleaning the front would
help, since I just cleaned the top, but it didnt' make a difference. I
thought maybe the ceiling light made a difference so Ibrought a lamp
over, but it seems the front is darker than the top!

Maybe they did that on purpose for aesthetic reasons?

If not, maybe I can be as tolerant of an alien stove as I've been
towards my own stove.

Thanks, Trader, and Red, and Caesar.