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View Poll Results: Solid color or wood grain? | |
Visible wood grain.
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Solid color.
|    | 75 | 22.32% |
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04-09-2012, 10:27 AM
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Owner and luthier of CB Basses | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: USA , Orlando , Florida | | | Solid color or wood grain?
Which do you prefer, a bass with a solid color or one that you can see the wood grain? |
04-09-2012, 10:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Orange County California | | | Depends on the wood. If you've got some kind of $$$$ wood top, show that baby off. Otherwise cover it up. Boring wood grain is boring (imo).
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04-09-2012, 10:35 AM
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04-09-2012, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by JoeDaddio  Depends on the wood. If you've got some kind of $$$$ wood top, show that baby off. Otherwise cover it up. Boring wood grain is boring (imo).
joe | Bingo. |
04-09-2012, 10:40 AM
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04-09-2012, 10:45 AM
|  | Jammin for the Lamb! | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chicago - NW Burbs | | | Good grain cannot be beat!
I agree.....nice grain or a cool top needs to come through!
I personally like grain and translucent tops more (although I do love some solid colors and own a couple of solid color basses)
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04-09-2012, 10:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Willow Street, PA | | Grain.  |
04-09-2012, 10:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: North Carolina | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Cliff Bordwell Which do you prefer, a bass with a solid color or one that you can see the wood grain? | Wood. The more figured the better.
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04-09-2012, 10:50 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | I definitely prefer to see the wood grain, even if it's plain old alder. All the more so if it's figured maple or another exotic. |
04-09-2012, 11:04 AM
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04-09-2012, 11:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Redmond, Washington | | | The only reason for paint is to hide a bad piece of wood!
...and yet two of the three basses I have owned were painted. Hmmm... |
04-09-2012, 11:28 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Lakland Basses & GK Amps | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lancaster, TX | | If the grain is deluxe.... show it off
If the grain is plain... bursts are nice 
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04-09-2012, 11:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | Grain... most definitely...
Unless we're talking Sonic Blue... cause that's my favourite guitar colour.
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04-09-2012, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Cliff Bordwell Which do you prefer, a bass with a solid color or one that you can see the wood grain? | Grain.
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04-09-2012, 12:06 PM
|  | Jumping off the fiscal cliff | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Canada | | | Grain all the way. Olympic white is the one exception I have for colored basses though. |
04-09-2012, 12:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hunts-Vegas, Alabama | | | As long as tone and playability are there, doesn't matter to me. |
04-09-2012, 12:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: New Hampshire | | | Although my bass is midnight wine, I prefer natural wood. I saw a beautiful Fender Jazz bass at Guitarcenter, with the best woodgrain ever! But I wanted a P bass.
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04-09-2012, 12:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | | I'm partial to a nice wood grain.
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04-09-2012, 12:37 PM
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04-09-2012, 12:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Marlton, NJ | | | Without hesitation, wood grain!
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