Favourite body color !

[NancyJohnson]

(Matte) black is always the preferred option. 

 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2022 by NancyJohnson
Speling fail.

[Rich]

I like coffee table basses and I can not lie

But for a Jazz, it’s got to be Candy Apple Red with matching headstock. 

[Guest]

Anything but natural

[CPCustomdubwise]

[nilorius]

I currently already own the 2nd version after natural, what i would like, but if i wouldn't own it, i would look like it that way.

[NJE]

It’s not really an official colour, but I would love a bass in faded Lake Placid Blue. It can go a weird green colour and I love it. Tal Wilkenfeld and Nick Campbell have Precisions in a similar colour.

 

 

[wateroftyne]

22 minutes ago, NJE said:

It’s not really an official colour, but I would love a bass in faded Lake Placid Blue. It can go a weird green colour and I love it. Tal Wilkenfeld and Nick Campbell have Precisions in a similar colour.

 

 

 

Ah, one of the rare joys of nicotine.

[MungoBass]

On 03/05/2022 at 18:33, Doctor J said:

Trans-white (Mary Kaye) on ash.

 

My first choice too.  I’m also a fan of the late 70’s Fender Cherry Burst....with a Maple board.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

3 hours ago, MungoBass said:

 

I’m also a fan of the late 70’s Fender Cherry Burst....with a Maple board.

I have one of those (actually an '81 with an S9 serial). The only problem is that cherry burst was used on Ash bodies, and the ash bodies Fender was making at that time would have been lighter had they been made of cast iron.

[MungoBass]

1 hour ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I have one of those (actually an '81 with an S9 serial). The only problem is that cherry burst was used on Ash bodies, and the ash bodies Fender was making at that time would have been lighter had they been made of cast iron.

 

Lovely!  5kgs or so by any chance?!?!

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

At least

[TheLowDown]

Sexy black.

[Downunderwonder]

I had a sunburst P copy as my first bass. Now I find sunburst to be a distasteful cliche and everything else is all good. Except 'new relic'. Don't get me started on faux relic.

[ahpook]

YO MOMA

[ubit]

This was the exact coloured Status Eclipse bass that I gigged for many years. It had battle scars from hundreds of gigs and I stupidly painted the body. I wish I hadn't.

 

 

Gorgeous bass.

 

 

 

 

[dclaassen]

A nice stained or clear finish over a beautiful slab of maple, preferably flamed or bird’s eye.

[Marvin]

For me it depends on the bass. I've got a natural finish, maple body, heavily lacquered p bass. I shouldn't like it at all, but I love it. I quite like sunburst, I've got a strat in burst with a black guard, love that one to. I love my black with tort guard jazz bass.

My son has a Squier Mustang guitar in orange with a double red stripe, looks cool as.

I'm currently trying to suppress GAS for a Cort A4...in matt stained red with that awesome 5 piece thru body neck. Phwoar!

 

I'm not mad on pink. But the only finish I'd not consider is exotic woods, especially burl finishes. That's about it.

[ezbass]

Hard to go wrong with white or black (fingerprint magnet issues notwithstanding). However, I currently own neither and seem to be on a blue bass kick, with my last 2 incomers being that hue (I should point out that, due to supply, that was the only colour available at the time) and I’m rather liking it.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

As @Marvin said, it depends on the bass. I've just bought a pink Squier VI and it's truly beautiful, but I don't think an Alembic (for example) would work in that colour.

 

The only finish that's a definite no from me is silverburst - it's unforgivable.

[Downunderwonder]

Where's the spell checker when you actually need one?

[howdenspur]

12 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

As @Marvin said, it depends on the bass. I've just bought a pink Squier VI and it's truly beautiful, but I don't think an Alembic (for example) would work in that colour.

 

The only finish that's a definite no from me is silverburst - it's unforgivable.

This describes my view I think, though my view of what suits was probably conditioned by the finishes traditionally offered. My"unforgivable" finish is Antigua🙂.

Edited May 8, 2022 by howdenspur
Grammar

[FinnDave]

Sunburst, preferably with a tort plate. 

 

(I just hope that my #1 favourite, my white Precision, will forgive me!).

 

To be honest, I only look at the finish when they're hanging on the wall. Don't look at the bass while I'm playing it or carrying it in a case.

[Newfoundfreedom]

On 03/05/2022 at 19:41, nilorius said:

Interesting, which color of body You would choose, if someone would say that will give You, let's say, standart 4 string Fender jazz bass, body made of ash. Iwould choose natural flat.

 

I'd put it in eBay, then buy something that isn't a Fender, in a natural finish. Or at the very most, a light colour wash. If I can't see the grain, I ain't interested. 

[sykilz]

I would have said blue , but then thought of my actual basses through the years and the clear winner is red, closely followed by white, and 'natural'. In fact I've never owned a blue bass. But they look nice. Also I saw one of these in a shop recently and lost my mind, it actually looked as awesome in the flesh as in the pics. Ridiculous, but awesome.

 

 

 

my current bass is one of these, roadster orange apparently, and it's lovely

 

[tauzero]

Well, it wouldn't be a Fender, and it would have five strings, and it would be natural, or maybe one of @skelf's acrylic impregnated tops, preferably with a nice bit of figuring. I have a lovely Antoniotsai with (IIRC) sycamore facing.

 

The dragon is a bonus.