Best classic paint jobs on a Jazz bass...?

[EBS_freak]

What's your favourite Jazz bass colour scheme?

I'm a sucker for white jazz basses, white scratchplate, maple neck, white headstock...

....also loved the surf green/maple necked, white scratchplate Nordstrand (Kevin Lindseys I believe) that was for sale on the forum not so long ago.

[JMT3781]

Slightly off white with a tortoise shell pick guard..
that or natural with black pickguard... but natural needs to be yellowish otherwise it looks cheap

not that i'm at all picky lol!




[quote name='EBS_freak' post='760608' date='Mar 1 2010, 12:09 PM']What's your favourite Jazz bass colour scheme?

I'm a sucker for white jazz basses, white scratchplate, maple neck, white headstock...

....also loved the surf green/maple necked, white scratchplate Nordstrand (Kevin Lindseys I believe) that was for sale on the forum not so long ago.[/quote]

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='JMT3781' post='760613' date='Mar 1 2010, 12:14 PM']Slightly off white with a tortoise shell pick guard..[/quote]

Oh yes, defo.



[quote]that or natural with black pickguard... but natural needs to be yellowish otherwise it looks cheap[/quote]

I know what you mean. I don't like the pine furniture look for a bass!

[yorick]

The Geddy Lee sig bass in black/maple neck/black blocks for me.

[Rich]

Candy apple red, matching headstock, white pearly scratchplate, neck ashtray, bound rosewood board with MOP blocks.
As a close second, the same as the above only in Lake Placid Blue.
Too cool for words.

[JTUK]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='760616' date='Mar 1 2010, 12:17 PM']Oh yes, defo.





I know what you mean. I don't like the pine furniture look for a bass![/quote]


Oh..that has given me ideas...as that is my body colour and it works with that tort plate....
I was in two minds before I saw this..

[hillbilly deluxe]

Red,gold hardware,road-worn the proper way.

[bh2]

Burst, brown tort or Vintage white, brown tort or...



Mine

Edited March 1, 2010 by bh2

[Lfalex v1.1]

[quote name='Rich' post='760620' date='Mar 1 2010, 12:22 PM']Candy apple red, matching headstock, white pearly scratchplate, neck ashtray, bound rosewood board with MOP blocks.
As a close second, the same as the above only in Lake Placid Blue.
Too cool for words. [/quote]

Yup,
CAR or LPB with matching headstocks. Think I'd prefer Maple for a fret board, though, and I could take or leave the ashtrays...

[skankdelvar]

White or CAR, matching headstock, tort plate, rosewood board, hold the ashtrays.

Yum.

[Grand Wazoo]

Candy Apple Red with maple neck, looks good enough to eat

[Shockwave]

Antigua, the best Fender colour EVER, regardless of bass!

[Musicman20]

White, aged white, or burst with rosewood or maple. MUST be brown tort plate. Block and inlays also brilliant.

Other options incl the more pastel colours like light blue and seafoam green.

This has got me thinking....I think my 30th bass has to be aged yellowing white.

[sshorepunk]

classic fender colours, sonic blue, off white and sea foam green, all with tort plate.

Sea foam green looks great on my CS jazz

Tony

[Vibrating G String]

Sherwood green, matching headstock, rosewood fingerboard and a slightly mint pickguard.

Or the same bass in LPB, seafoam green, silver, CAR, ice blue, or many other car paint colors. I'm not really a pre CBS fan but I love the look

[Vibrating G String]

These two are keeping me happy for now.

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[bh2]

Ooh... I forgot, Sonic Blue with matching headstock, white guard, rosewood board. Swoon.

[BottomEndian]

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='761408' date='Mar 2 2010, 12:44 AM']hold the ashtrays[/quote]
You're going to have a right bugger-on fretting if you're holding an ashtray. Right hand should be fine; just whack the metalwork against the strings, plectrum-style.

<ahem>

On-topic... 3-tone sunburst, tort plate, rosewood, dots not blocks, plain maple headstock. Simple, clean, happy.

[Pkomor]

[quote name='bh2' post='761552' date='Mar 2 2010, 09:48 AM']Ooh... I forgot, Sonic Blue with matching headstock, white guard, rosewood board. Swoon.

[/quote]

That, or fiesta red with tort plate and ashtrays:

[Davo-London]

[quote name='Pkomor' post='761561' date='Mar 2 2010, 10:03 AM']That, or fiesta red with tort plate and ashtrays:

[/quote]

I'm a sonic blue and pearlised white scratchplate guy. I don't like white scratchplates at all. They are too stark. When coupled with the Geddy Lee colours it just looks all wrong to me.

When I bought my first P back in 1976, I wanted the all black body with black scratch and maple neck. Yum. They didn't have any and so I got the boringly popular natural with black scratch. Not the same at all.

Of course the classic sunburst with tort plate looks cool, especially when weathered.

Davo

[Rich]

I don't like plain white plates much, but white pearl on the right bass (such as the aforementioned CAR/LPB) is sex on a stick.
Ashtray-wise, I'd only want the neck one.

[Rosh]

Olympic white (or Vintage white) with red tortoise shell pickguard, maple neck. -- Ideal on a Jaguar!

Or the same but Sunburst body.

I'm just a sucker for a maple neck!

Ashtrays too!

Edited March 2, 2010 by Rosh

[Rich]

Great, well I now have simply [i]massive[/i] GAS for a custom 5-string Jazzer in Candy Apple Red etc. and it's all the fault of this thread. Thanks a bunch.

[Rosh]

[quote name='Rich' post='762078' date='Mar 2 2010, 06:42 PM']Great, well I now have simply [i]massive[/i] GAS for a custom 5-string Jazzer in Candy Apple Red etc. and it's all the fault of this thread. Thanks a bunch. [/quote]

I've had major GAS for a year or so on a Vintage white Jag with red tort pickguard...

Currently I'm saving as I'm in dire need of a good Fender (J/P/Jag/Must) for what will eventually be £440~


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[JMT3781]

Fender could use this thread to whittle down its colour chart