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For my first 10 years playing bass, I hated tort and sunburst as passionately as you. It seemed to change overnight. I hated fender too, but that changed as well. Now I'm just indifferent to them. But I love tort and sunburst when used rightly. Black/tort/maple/creme is the best though.
For my first 10 years playing bass, I hated tort and sunburst as passionately as you. It seemed to change overnight. I hated fender too, but that changed as well. Now I'm just indifferent to them. But I love tort and sunburst when used rightly. Black/tort/maple/creme is the best though.
If this doesn't convert you, Felken, we may need to check your pulse. Is that from ESP's line of relic instruments from like 6-8 years ago? They were like $1,200 bucks new, if I recall correctly. I always wanted one.
Tort looks better than the original white on this satin finish.
Jackie likes it.
Jackie likes it.
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
C'mon, Felken. Do it. Start the Official Talk Bass Anti-Tort Club. You know you want to. Break all the rules.
It is a relic line, but is the LTD model. If you dropped a zero, that would be closer to the price I paid. I got a keeper, as it plays, feels, and sounds better than most all passive basses I've played.
Reagrding Jazz basses any pickguard is just superfluous. Nothing "hangs" on it, and you can just as well remove it altogether, because the wood underneath it is so much nicer. On a P bass though, every control and switches (if any) hangs on the pickguard and relies on it. You can take it away on any jazz bass without anything happening really. You might have exposed screw holes, but hey, call it a "chambered body" then... 
No one told us how big or small those chambers has to be...
BTW just as if you made any scratches with the pick on a bass anyway. Most folks I know of plays with their fingers. And without nails. No everyone plays like Lemmy. Quite the opposite really.
You don't have to be converted in either direction! Me myself couldn't care less if any pickguard is white or tort, or black, or anything in between. The only thing that makes my horn grow out of my forehead if its induces some kind of static electricity onto the sound, which are the cheap plastic ones. So I like metal ones even.
If you "hate" tort, you do. No more no less, nothing that we can do anything about. As if the world comes down to and end, because of it.
No one told us how big or small those chambers has to be... BTW just as if you made any scratches with the pick on a bass anyway. Most folks I know of plays with their fingers. And without nails. No everyone plays like Lemmy. Quite the opposite really.
You don't have to be converted in either direction! Me myself couldn't care less if any pickguard is white or tort, or black, or anything in between. The only thing that makes my horn grow out of my forehead if its induces some kind of static electricity onto the sound, which are the cheap plastic ones. So I like metal ones even.
If you "hate" tort, you do. No more no less, nothing that we can do anything about. As if the world comes down to and end, because of it.
Looks white but it's actually a light sonic blue.
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Black or white with tort gets it done for me!
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