Yep, tort looks better! Is that a standard 62 RI Guard? Looks nice. I like the tort pattern and color.
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Yep, tort looks better! Is that a standard 62 RI Guard? Looks nice. I like the tort pattern and color.
No, I bought one from a dude on eBay who relic’s real celluloid Fender guards to match the relic’d or naturally worn basses. I was a little skeptical. But, it came in a fit perfect and looks fantastic! I do have a 62 RI tort guard on another white P bass I own. I think this relic’d guard looks much better than the 62.
'57 '59 Fender Precision Tortoise Celluloid Pickguard 10 hole '58 1958 Relic | eBay
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Thank you!!! I love a gold pick guard on white and sunburst. I just didn’t like how it meshed with the candy tangerine.
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Yes I custom ordered it through a local dealer. I say modest only because black is fairly common and not as flashy as a metallic finish or something. But yea, I absolutely love black jazz basses.Congratulations, lovely! Did you custom-ordered it?
Modest aesthetic? It rocks already!
Perfect! In order to get a number, post a picture of the CS logo at the back of the headstock, and welcome aboard! 
Hows that?Perfect! In order to get a number, post a picture of the CS logo at the back of the headstock, and welcome aboard!
@vinnydbass
Welcome to the Fender Custom Shop Club! Your number is 56 (We skipped a couple numbers to accommodate fav # requests).
Welcome to the Fender Custom Shop Club! Your number is 56
(We skipped a couple numbers to accommodate fav # requests).
If this weren't on a CS instrument, I probably wouldn't think twice about it. Any reason (besides concern about resale value) for the Custom Shop owner to not have a professional route a channel to make truss rod adjustments possible without removing the neck? Perhaps to keep aesthetics intact, leave the pickguard alone so you have to remove that to make the adjustment? This is the one area that I didn't need to be "vintage". And yes, I've seen Vinnie B's paint lid opener idea.
If you plan on keeping the bass and it bothers you, feel free to route that channel. A nice thing with Fenders specifically is that you can hot-rod them any way you like.
On the other hand, my CS '64 Jazz's neck rarely moves, so it requires only one check per year at my tech. Not a problem at all.
Where's the bass already?
On the other hand, my CS '64 Jazz's neck rarely moves, so it requires only one check per year at my tech. Not a problem at all.
Where's the bass already?
62 CS P, Made for Justin Meldal-Johnsen. Basically Pino specs, but in Oly white. I believe it has a Brazilian RW board too.
Enjoy!
Gold guard is “its death” as we say in Italy ... this is said of something that is ideal for somebody or for something else
I'll work up a "boudoir shot" when I can.Where's the bass already?
