Bass refinish. But what color.?

[ezbass]

Shoreline Gold always looks ‘right’ on a J style bass. I’m not normally a fan of gold (except on Les Pauls) but Shoreline really works IMO.

 

[Lfalex v1.1]

Shoreline looked great on the Roscoe Beck Fenders. Even looks good with tort (as above)

[jd56hawk]

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

Shoreline Gold always looks ‘right’ on a J style bass. I’m not normally a fan of gold (except on Les Pauls) but Shoreline really works IMO.

 

Especially since Shoreline Gold looks more like silver.

Of course, Fender often has a problem when coming up with appropriate finish names.

Firemist Silver? 

More like Metallic LPB.

Sonic Blue?

They should rename it Barely Blue!

[LukeFRC]

6 minutes ago, jd56hawk said:

Firemist Silver? 

More like Metallic LPB.

They would have originally been silver - but when doing a relic style the yellowed top coat makes it look green blue. 
 

[LukeFRC]

1 hour ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

Shoreline looked great on the Roscoe Beck Fenders. Even looks good with tort (as above)

Oh don’t, I’ve just posted in another thread I don’t really have GAS for anything 

[nige1968]

58 minutes ago, jd56hawk said:

Especially since Shoreline Gold looks more like silver.

Of course, Fender often has a problem when coming up with appropriate finish names.

Firemist Silver? 

More like Metallic LPB.

Sonic Blue?

They should rename it Barely Blue!

 

Funnily enough, the original Cadillac Sonic Blue paint was sort of this colour:

 

 

Here are various faded Sonic Blue Cadillacs

 

 

Original colour of Firemist Silver:

 

 

And Shoreline Gold:

 

[jd56hawk]

1 hour ago, LukeFRC said:

They would have originally been silver - but when doing a relic style the yellowed top coat makes it look green blue. 
 

Definitely!

I know what a yellowed clearcoat can do.

The one on the left is transparent black...I've been hoping to find another one like it for six or seven years.