History of White Pickguards on burst Fenders Jazz basses?

About 1982 I think, when they switched to the all in one pickguard, no control plate set up

 

John Entwistle's 65 jazz had a white pickguard.

 

This video shows a lot of the changes in the jazz bass, including minor stuff like pickguard changes and stuff. I'm hoping I'm remembering that right, but I'm pretty sure he mentions what year certain pickguards began showing up.

 

Jaco didn’t need a white pick guard

 

I have a J that came with white, then I switched to pearl, now it has tort. That’s the history of my J bass.

 

White is not in style after Labor Day...... LOL

 

I think they used white on custom color models and tort on burst in the early days. Some colors don't match tort as well as others (blue, black, pink compared to burst, white, natural). They changed to black by 1976 and were available in white a few years later.

 

I’m so upset! This is Tortism!
You all might be Tortists.
The title of thread!?!

But wait the world should come to this thread.
We discriminate against 10” in favor of 12” then brand vs brand and Fender vs all other basses. Then P + SVT supremacy. Woody matters. Wire doesn’t. Flats vs Rwds. No one needs an
ABG. You’re stuck up and putting me down if you play a booteeqee. Class D! Modeling is better than real. IE is all you need. LOL

Then we all leave the Keyboards and play real Bass and all is right with the world. My point? We stay sisters and brothers in Bass. Peace is ours!

 

Yep, saw it in person and it still had the white pickguard on it.

 

White pickguards on sunburst basses is just an ugly color combo but I guess white colored PGs were the cheapest option for mass production models.

 

......and. I took the white pickguard off my MIJ ‘51 Precision Sunburst. My P is a Fullerton ‘57 RI so gold anodized. The P I had in 1969 was a 1957 so gold anodized pickguard. Guess I’m discriminating!

 

White pearloid is the only one I can accept. Cream is okay but ehhh it's too similar to plain white

 

This definitely doesn’t look like every other 60’s jazz bass ever. If it wasn’t in a museum, my first thought would have been “made in Japan”. Very cool.

 

Here's my '64 which I remember as being sunburst when I bought it in about '82 or 3. I immediately had it refinished in tobacco sunburst and had EMG's installed . . . In retrospect, not the wisest course of action. Not sure if that pickguard was the original one or not, but it's yellowed nicely: