Help find the color.
 

I'm trying to restore a bass back to it's original color. Can someone tell me what the color name is, and if a vendor like reranch carries it (they have quite a few "whites")?

Example of the color:

Hard to tell from the pic but I'll go Vintage White. It's too off-white to be Olympic.

It looks like a Fender MIM. Is that right? What are the first three digits of the serial number?

I think it IS Olympic White. I have a 2008 MIA Jazz in Oly White and the color looks pretty much the same as this pic.

The body is the only original part and it is a MIM (the picture above is an example shot - not the actual bass).

It was my first "real" bass that has been modified and upgraded (and sometimes downgraded) over the past 15 years. I'm trying to bring the body/pickguard back to the original look (right now it's rattle can black).

If MIM, it is definitely Arctic White.

Awesome! Thank you very much!

one other option you have is to take it to a local bodyshop supply business. if they supply and mix paint for bodyshops they will, probably, have an optical scanner that "looks" at the finish. it will then spit out a formula so they can match what you have.

whoops i didn't read every post. you would need to sand a spot down to the original color for the scanner to work

While I have your ear, what color pickguard would that be? White or parchment?

If it was made before 2001:
Part No. 0037737000 Pickguard, P Bass Mexico, White/Black/White

2001 and later:
0058261000 Pickguard, P Bass Mexico, White/Black/White

:)

arctic white is my first guess

1995. That's awesome. Thank you!

My pleasure. I cut and pasted the pickguard info from the service diagrams on the Fender site. Yours is this one. You may have a tough time finding those 1990's Standard Series parts. I searched for your pickguard and couldn't find it for sale anywhere. The 2001 guard or any 13-hole guard should work fine, though. :)

Yeah, I was searching and didn't find much. It's good to hear that any 13 hole unit will work. I assume bright white is pretty much the color. I don't need it to be 100%, but I am nostalgic for the way the body used to look.