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Update: Tort or Pearl scratchplate on my Jazz - what do you think?


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13 minutes ago, spencer.b said:

I'm such a geek for authenticity with fender basses so for me black has a white guard or black for a post 75 vibe never tort

Ah, the fretless MIJ is a '62 RI...

So should I keep to Tort? Hmmm

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12 hours ago, Skinnyman said:

I like pearl 'guards.

I'd have pearl on them both and risk being burned as a witch.....

 

It looks OK if you're a Misissippi river boat gambler! 😃

2 minutes ago, Maude said:

Although the real answer is 3 ply black. 

Black white black or 3 plys of black?

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3 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

It looks OK if you're a Misissippi river boat gambler! 😃

Black white black or 3 plys of black?

B/W/B .

I actually have a bit of a thing for single ply scratchplates but the white middle of a b/w/b makes the scratchplate stand out nicely against the black lower bout and horn of a sunburst. 

Unfortunately the options provided in the OP are wrong and not quite so wrong 😁

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57 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

It looks OK if you're a Misissippi river boat gambler! 😃

And howdy-do-dee to you, young Sir. Ah sho' am glad to make yo' acquaintance. P'haps you'd like to join me at the tables for a friendly game and share a mint julep to ward off the heat of the evenin'?

This ole thing? Why it's mah granpappy's ole jazz bass geetar. Looks mahty fine with the white pickguard, don' it?

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1 hour ago, Maude said:

B/W/B .

I actually have a bit of a thing for single ply scratchplates but the white middle of a b/w/b makes the scratchplate stand out nicely against the black lower bout and horn of a sunburst. 

Unfortunately the options provided in the OP are wrong and not quite so wrong 😁

Hrm, I do have an interest in this, because at xmas, I bought a (left handed) Bass Collection 'Jive' (Jazz), for m'lado (lefty only available in old man 'burst with old man white scratchplate).

So I was thinking - solid black or BWB might modernise the thing, a bit... plus a paintjob would be better...

Anyhoo, it's nice to hear from somebody who's right!

7 minutes ago, Skinnyman said:

And howdy-do-dee to you, young Sir. Ah sho' am glad to make yo' acquaintance. P'haps you'd like to join me at the tables for a friendly game and share a mint julep to ward off the heat of the evenin'?

This ole thing? Why it's mah granpappy's ole jazz bass geetar. Looks mahty fine with the white pickguard, don' it?

That's fine, you old fool - except you're in the 1890s, and the Jazz wasn't invented 'til 1960. 😃

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1 hour ago, paulmcnamara said:

What I really don't like is a tort on black........ just got a Sire Marcus Miller tort on black....... maybe change to white pearl!

A man of taste, clearly.

White pearl on black every time. Do it 😀

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On 25/04/2019 at 18:36, Maude said:

Never ever, under any circumstance should a pearl scratchplate be fitted to anything other than a Hofner. 

🙂

 

On 26/04/2019 at 08:59, casapete said:

Probably agree, although I have seen a Stingray sporting a pearl plate which looked pretty good.

My mm Sterling has a jiz spangled plate🙄

(I say tort, but it’s predictable)....

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