Help find the color.

[gimp]

I'm trying to restore a bass back to it's original color. Can someone tell me what the color name is, and if a vendor like reranch carries it (they have quite a few "whites")?

Example of the color:
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[elgecko]

Hard to tell from the pic but I'll go Vintage White. It's too off-white to be Olympic.

 

[benc]

It looks like a Fender MIM. Is that right? What are the first three digits of the serial number?

 

[lijazz]

I think it IS Olympic White. I have a 2008 MIA Jazz in Oly White and the color looks pretty much the same as this pic.

 

[gimp]

The body is the only original part and it is a MIM (the picture above is an example shot - not the actual bass).

 

[gimp]

It was my first "real" bass that has been modified and upgraded (and sometimes downgraded) over the past 15 years. I'm trying to bring the body/pickguard back to the original look (right now it's rattle can black).

 

[benc]

If MIM, it is definitely Arctic White.

 

[gimp]

Awesome! Thank you very much!

 

[wcoffey81]

one other option you have is to take it to a local bodyshop supply business. if they supply and mix paint for bodyshops they will, probably, have an optical scanner that "looks" at the finish. it will then spit out a formula so they can match what you have.

whoops i didn't read every post. you would need to sand a spot down to the original color for the scanner to work

 

[gimp]

While I have your ear, what color pickguard would that be? White or parchment?

 

[benc]

If it was made before 2001:
Part No. 0037737000 Pickguard, P Bass Mexico, White/Black/White

2001 and later:
0058261000 Pickguard, P Bass Mexico, White/Black/White

 

[DwaynieAD]

arctic white is my first guess

 

[gimp]

If it was made before 2001:
Part No. 0037737000 Pickguard, P Bass Mexico, White/Black/White

2001 and later:
0058261000 Pickguard, P Bass Mexico, White/Black/White

1995. That's awesome. Thank you!

 

[benc]

My pleasure. I cut and pasted the pickguard info from the Invalid Link Removed on the Fender site. Yours is [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]. You may have a tough time finding those 1990's Standard Series parts. I searched for your pickguard and couldn't find it for sale anywhere. The 2001 guard or any 13-hole guard should work fine, though.

 

[gimp]

Yeah, I was searching and didn't find much. It's good to hear that any 13 hole unit will work. I assume bright white is pretty much the color. I don't need it to be 100%, but I am nostalgic for the way the body used to look.