Bass colour/ finishes

[MM Stingray 62]

What’s your favourite finish on a bass.

[AndyTravis]

Lake Placid Blue

[Maude]

I love all sorts of finishes but always end up at vintage white with a black scratchplate. 

Classic and classy. 😎👍

[ped]

Black and maple

[Reggaebass]

Olympic/vintage white , all day long  ☝️

[MM Stingray 62]

I think some basses look better than others in a certain finish. I’ve never been a big fan of the natural finish but I really like it on a Stingray.

[Reggaebass]

The grey sparkle looks cool too 

[Hellzero]

Natural as I love the look of wood.

[NancyJohnson]

Matt black.  

 

[Trueno]

Candy apple red with a black scratchplate. Or any red with an off-white scratchplate…. Just like my two basses.

[neepheid]

I guess I've always been a sucker for trans cherry red. Metallics also work great for me. Gloss black offset with cream binding is a strong look too.

 

Oh whoops, I've just described my current basses, my first bass and probably about half the basses I've ever owned

 

[Chaosanator]

Blue sparkle 

[Mrbigstuff]

Blizzard Pearl or gloss black or a fancy figured top.

[Woodwind]

Not what I play, but my ideal is a dark natural (non-coffee table) wood with just shellac over oil or wax finish with an ebony fingerboard.

 

Failing that a black finish.

 

My bass is a tobacco burst which I can tolerate. It has a black pickguard (and ramp) but my preference is no pickguard and a ramp that matches rhe body

Edited September 2, 2021 by Woodwind

[Guest]

Currently obsessed with Spanish Copper Metallic

 

[Lozz196]

2 hours ago, ped said:

Black and maple

Yup 👍 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

It very much depends on the bass.

 

Daphne blue on a mustang.

Alpine white on a thunderbird

Transparent red on a mahogany bodied semiacoustic or clear transparent on a maple bodied semiacoustic

black on a steinberger (or hohner) cricket bat

 

Then each bass/colour will need a specific pickguard colour (if it has a pickguard of course) to complete the look...

[Al Krow]

 

3 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Olympic/vintage white , all day long  ☝️

 

3 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

The grey sparkle looks cool too 

 

I guess the latter is for night time only then? 😁

[Newfoundfreedom]

Natural for me. 

 

I can live with a fine colour wash that still shows the grain. 

 

I can't stand anything painted. It always feels cheap to me. I know in reality the opposite is probably true. 

 

But I grew up playing really crap instruments that were always painted bright and shiny colours to make them look better than they were. 

 

I know that in reality, this has nothing to do with a good quality, well painted instrument. I just can't get over the ingrained feeling that paint = cheap and tacky. 

[Geek99]

Agree and quite also like telecaster bass butterscotch blonde 

[Cato]

36 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

 

But I grew up playing really crap instruments that were always painted bright and shiny colours to make them look better than they were. 

 

I know that in reality, this has nothing to do with a good quality, well painted instrument. I just can't get over the ingrained feeling that paint = cheap and tacky. 

 

I have a similar thing with black basses with white pickguards.

 

Doesn't mater if it's a vintage pre CBS precision in mint condition

, it will still remind me of the Encores in the Argos catalogue when I was a kid.

[FinnDave]

Sunburst, rosewood 'board & tort plate. I've got three Jazz Basses like that.

[Reggaebass]

7 hours ago, Al Krow said:

 

 

 

I guess the latter is for night time only then? 😁

The starry night stingray is for night time playing 😁

[Paul S]

11 hours ago, ped said:

Black and maple

All day long.  The only basses I own currently that aren't black and maple don't come in black and maple.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

But I grew up playing really crap instruments that were always painted bright and shiny colours to make them look better than they were.

I grew up playing a natural finish guitar and found the refined tastefulness of its appearance jarred with the noises I was making with it. One day the ghost of my teenage self with be avenged and all those pretty strips of wood will disappear under a nice thick coat of blazing red.