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12-13-2012, 01:19 PM
|  | resU deretsigeR | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Odenton, MD | | | 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:  |
12-13-2012, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | Hard to tell from the pic but I'll go Vintage White. It's too off-white to be Olympic. |
12-13-2012, 01:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | It looks like a Fender MIM. Is that right? What are the first three digits of the serial number? |
12-13-2012, 01:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, New York | | | 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. |
12-13-2012, 01:26 PM
| | resU deretsigeR | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Odenton, MD | | | The body is the only original part and it is a MIM (the picture above is an example shot - not the actual bass). |
12-13-2012, 01:27 PM
| | resU deretsigeR | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Odenton, MD | | | 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). |
12-13-2012, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | If MIM, it is definitely Arctic White. |
12-13-2012, 01:31 PM
| | resU deretsigeR | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Odenton, MD | | | Awesome! Thank you very much! |
12-13-2012, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: S/E Michigan | | | 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
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12-13-2012, 02:35 PM
| | resU deretsigeR | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Odenton, MD | | | While I have your ear, what color pickguard would that be? White or parchment? |
12-13-2012, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | 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  |
12-13-2012, 03:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Mechanicsburg, PA | | | arctic white is my first guess |
12-13-2012, 05:41 PM
| | resU deretsigeR | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Odenton, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by benc  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 | 1995. That's awesome. Thank you! |
12-13-2012, 06:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | 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. |
12-13-2012, 06:30 PM
| | resU deretsigeR | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Odenton, MD | | | 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. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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