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It's totally a subjective thing, of course, but I'm actually a fan of wood that looks like wood, both for guitars and furniture.
I'm kinda surprised by how many folks here don't seem to like that.
Personally, I have never chosen either a guitar (or a car) because of the finish/colour. I get whatever I need that is available as a good deal at the time and fits my budget, and the finish is whatever it is...
Having said that, I don't think I'd buy an acoustic guitar that wasn't natural finish...and there are a few solid colours that I don't think I could live with on a bass or guitar (or a car) e.g. lime green, orange, sh!t brown...
I'm kinda surprised by how many folks here don't seem to like that.
Personally, I have never chosen either a guitar (or a car) because of the finish/colour. I get whatever I need that is available as a good deal at the time and fits my budget, and the finish is whatever it is...
Having said that, I don't think I'd buy an acoustic guitar that wasn't natural finish...and there are a few solid colours that I don't think I could live with on a bass or guitar (or a car) e.g. lime green, orange, sh!t brown...
Well, I have a Warwick Corvette with a bubinga body, natural oiled wood grain finish. Personally, I like it, but the grain of your wood may not be as attractive.
I will say one thing about mine. We had a gig here in Richmond, Virginia, last Saturday. The week prior had about 5 days of rain and the humidity was off the charts. Between the time we set up and when we started to play wa about 40 minutes with the door of this country club open. When I picked up my bass is was almost slimy... pretty gross. Good thing I always have a soft towel at my gigs.
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Nice. That has real grain. I've never seen a Squier have that. They just look brown (not truly natural) to me.
I like a natural body. Had a natural Foundation. Wasn’t flashy and sounded fantastic. Wish I had it back every day. Got stupid and traded it off. Big screw up.
Here is another consideration on the debate of natural finish: the best wood gets a natural finish, the worse looking ones get sprayed with solid color paint.
Beautiful does not always mean a better tone that being said. I've seen plenty of gorgeous pieces of wood that sounded dull and ugly looking ones that sounded great.
Beautiful does not always mean a better tone that being said. I've seen plenty of gorgeous pieces of wood that sounded dull and ugly looking ones that sounded great.
No, the more I see the natural finish the more I dislike it, don't care if it's waxed or oiled but if it looks like furniture I'm turned off. But that's just me and I may be totally wrong.
EDIT: And I usually am
I am not sure if this goes under Natural finish or not. Looks cool to me.
I don't care for the "natural" finish either. I used to think I did, I fact I tried to get a guy to strip my Telecaster bass to bare wood around 1975. He talked me out of it and I'm glad he did.
Typically I do not care for natural finishes at all. Most look like cheap furniture to me. But there are exceptions. For example, I absolutely love the natural finish on one of my Wals:
And then there's this Fodera currently up for sale on Reverb:
And then there's this Fodera currently up for sale on Reverb:
I finally joined the natural bass club Feb. of this year.
After never owning any guitar or bass in Natural wood grain , I scored my '78 Fender P-bass in a pawnshop for
an AMAZING price.
Here it is:
After never owning any guitar or bass in Natural wood grain , I scored my '78 Fender P-bass in a pawnshop for
an AMAZING price.
Here it is:
It's a shame that it's covered up by so much black plastic.
Hi et0518
Were you waiting for angry or nasty comments?
Instead you got 10 pages of great bassporn!
I will not add my basses to that (all of them have visible woodgrain) drool
That said I like some black!
and grain! 
or
may the bass be with you
Wise(b)ass
I prefer natural finish, 4 of my 5 basses are natural. my birdsong is cedar/oil, Ibanez & eppiphone are maple/ nitro, Gibson is mahogany/satin. My fender mustang is my only paint/poly bass & most likely my last! I love the feel of the oil and satin finish, you can really feel and smell the wood!
This makes me laugh. How do you arrive at that assertion? Wood is beautiful anywhere you use it. It’s been what stringed instruments are made of for a long long time and I don’t believe anyone ever mistook a bass for a chair or table but hey, I could be wrong. Surely you can seperate the two even though they’re made of the same thing. I’m sanding one of my basses back to natural ‘cos wood is beautiful and isn’t defined by what you make from it.
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