Jazz bass pickgaurd colour help & advice please

[Noisyjon]

Hello All,
Happy new year, etc.

Right down to business.

I'm thinking of getting my dream bass made by Jon and have hit a stumbling block with the pickgaurd colour.

It's going to be a Classic Jazz bass with a trans white body with a natural non-tinted maple neck.
I initially wanted a W/B/W scratchplate but am now thinking maybe a nice Tort or B/W/B jobbie.

Any pictures and thoughts to help me out here please?

Rock on,

Cheers,
Jon.

Edited January 8, 2008 by jonthebass

[Machines]

Why not get both !? Then you can swap them over and it'll be like a change of clothes for your bass .

[Noisyjon]

I was thinking along those lines but would like to get just one for now!

What colour would you go for?

[EBS_freak]

I would go white... I think the tort looks better on p basses.

[Tait]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='115520' date='Jan 7 2008, 03:33 PM']I would go white... I think the tort looks better on p basses.[/quote]

on the other hand i love white with black scratchplate on a p bass and white with tort on a jazz. if anything i'd go for the tort, but have you thought about no scratchplate? i think that would look really cool.

[TimmyC]

It's all about the tort with white

[Mike]

^^ What he said. If you're really not sure, in the scheme of things, getting another PG would cost next to nothing.

[Hit&Run]

I reckon tort on white looks the coolest..

Maybe you (OP) should turn this into a poll?

[Shaggy]

[quote name='TimmyC' post='115678' date='Jan 7 2008, 06:52 PM']It's all about the tort with white[/quote]
+1

[simon1964]

Definitely tort with white - classic combination

[cetera]

Tort all the way....

A red tort is nicer than a brown though....

[Sibob]

My vote goes for tort!!

Black or white looks nice on white basses BUT a solid 'colour' one might look a bit weird on the trans white finish with the wood grain, would look better on a solid white, like the DJ above.

So all things considered, yup, a tort! lol

Si

[Noisyjon]

[quote name='Sibob' post='116146' date='Jan 8 2008, 12:31 PM']My vote goes for tort!!

Black or white looks nice on white basses BUT a solid 'colour' one might look a bit weird on the trans white finish with the wood grain, would look better on a solid white, like the DJ above.

So all things considered, yup, a tort! lol

Si[/quote]

aarrgghhhhh!!!!

Anyone got a white jazz with a tort scratchplate I could see please?

[Hamster]

Olympic white - not transparent white - but you get the idea.

Hamster

[Hamster]

A bit whiter..........

[Noisyjon]

Thanks for the pics Hamster.
Are they your basses?

[Hamster]

Sadly no - although I'm building a P bass Olympic white project with a tort plate at the moment :wub:

Hamster

[Noisyjon]

[quote name='Hamster' post='116572' date='Jan 8 2008, 09:27 PM']Sadly no - although I'm building a P bass Olympic white project with a tort plate at the moment :wub:

Hamster[/quote]

How's the bass building going for you?
I have been looking at Warmoth's web site and costing a bass myself!

[Hamster]

The Warmoth stuff is quality, however for me, if I bought a lot of new quality parts and put them together (probably paying for a luthier to ensure everything is straight and true) then the final cost will be very near to buying a good quality bass off the shelf.

I try and buy secondhand and as cheap as I can, respray, re-wire and shield, polish, new set of strings and put a decal on it for gear snobs then see how it sounds/looks. If I end up with a player and a looker then I'm happy

Hamster

[Sparky]

+1 on tort.