Flame or Quilted Maple under a pickguard?.

[MAJOR METAL]

Hi Everyone

If you were going to have a vintage style instrument built for you with a pickguard and you wanted a figured maple top would you get Flame or Quilted Maple?. Thanks

 

[silky smoove]

Flame

 

[michele]

Mmmh ... I guess you're thinking about a Sadowsky, right? Will Lee has a Vintage 3tone-burst with a quilted maple top under a white pickguard ... it looks great!

 

[GrooveWarrior]

Get a clear pickguard.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Mmmh ... I guess you're thinking about a Sadowsky, right? Will Lee has a Vintage 3tone-burst with a quilted maple top under a white pickguard ... it looks great!

Yes Sadowsky it is

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Get a clear pickguard.

I was thinking Pearliod would look great on a greenburst bass.

 

[michele]

I was thinking Pearliod would look great on a greenburst bass.

I think it's a great combo!! Rosewood or maple board?

 

[MAJOR METAL]

I think it's a great combo!! Rosewood or maple board?

Maple

 

[Big String]

Congrats in order. Flame.

 

[silky smoove]

Maple

Just my personal preference here, but a greenburst body, with a maple board and a matching headstock would be HOT HOT HOT!!!

 

[xyllion]

Either flame or quilt is fine. Flame has a more angry or energetic appearance. Quilt is more serene.

 

[Nino Valenti]

Quilt. This is the one I sold to Todd VanSelus a while back:
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[gflowers]

Nino,

I thought I recognized that bass. I owned that bass at one time (it's the second one like it that I've owned). Is it the one I traded you a few years ago for the LP Blue vintage 4 Sadowsky with matching headstock?

Gary in NC

 

[Selta]

Hi Everyone

If you were going to have a vintage style instrument built for you with a pickguard and you wanted a figured maple top would you get Flame or Quilted Maple?. Thanks

Quilt > Flamed. By far, and easy choice get quilt, IMO.
http://www.bleedingsoul13.titaniumhosting.com/Spector NS20005/
Neither have pickguards, but mmmm quilt.

Ray

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Quilt. This is the one I sold to Todd VanSelus a while back:
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Is that an upgraded top 4 A ?

 

[hippiesandwich]

I always dug zonwon's Benavente (blue quilt):

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6304

 

[Marlat]

I really dislike that "tight" flamed maple look on large pieces like bodys. I think the more open / deep flaming looks great, but that starts to approach a quilt, so if I were ordering a Sadowsky (and one day I will), it will have a quilt top.

 

[FireAarro]

Quilt for greenburst...

 

[kyttkat]

I think, because of Spector's approach to maple (i.e. Flame on the Euros and Quilted predominantly on the USAs), I associate Quilt with quality - and it does look better.

Quilted every time.

 

[Johnny Fila]

Yes Sadowsky it is

What happened to the green Warmoth that you liked?