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Anyone else have a 'type'?

#82
My rack tells me I like black or burst for basses. No natural, no colored, no stained wood. And mainly rosewood or ebony for fretboards.

Guitars I don't seem to care as much 'cause they're more of a tool but they're all solids, black, cream, grey and one red burst that's not what I'd think I'd want, but I like it.
 
#84
I have three basses built from Fijian mahogany. It’s plantation timber, easy to work with, not too heavy and is a beautiful warm almond colour when oiled.
Apart from that, two of them are Precision body shapes and all have 5 strings. I like black hardware, natural wood finishes, passive electronics and flat wound strings. I don’t like maple fretboards. So I guess you might say that’s my ‘type’.
 
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#85
J.Wolf said:
in the end I’m not really fixated on the Woods. I just realize that the stuff I tend to like has very consistent themes around those woods. My 5 string is all ash and maple, weighs like 7 lbs and has a gorgeously full midrange. That is NOT how I think of ash maple but it is what it is.
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Being honest, I spend a lot more time playing my basses than looking at them. Egads, I have a black bass with a tort. LOL!!! That said, I agree there is a certain beauty in wood grain that might be of import to some.
 
#90
The only wood preference I have is for pau ferro and maple for the neck/fingerboard. Lots of other combinations work perfectly fine, but these are not endangered and good quality, properly cut and seasoned blanks are readily available and not too expensive for production instruments.

my three electric basses are maple/alder laminate, swamp ash, and mahogany.
 
#91
My 3 main basses are Ash bodied too...

not sure if I have a type or not... but they all seem to be different in the similar ways... or is it similar in different ways?
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(the Tele is burst with a tort guard)
 
#93
My type is "thoughtful design".

Say, like the custom Hipshot tuning pegs that are shorter on my bass, with a headstock that is at an angle - just to eliminate the use of a string tee.
 
#94
My “type” is bolt-ons, for sure.
I’ve owned a bunch of neck-thru basses and they all had a common characteristic I wished wasn’t there. Bolt-on is just more “right” for me.
(Two exceptions: my old Warwick Thumb NT, which actually does have the neck-thru thing I don’t like, but I love it anyway because it plays itself, and my recent Ken Lawrence 6 which is set-neck so it doesn’t quite count).

On the flipside, I’ve never played a J-style bass I wanted to own. They sound great when other people play them, but for me they don’t seem to work. Funny thing.
 

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