Jazz bass color

[juancaminos]

Not crazy about that particular burst. So black/white.

 

[GregT]

I would only choose the black with the dark fretboard because I am not a fan of maple fretboards on most basses. I would change the pickguard to black also. But then I'm a bit biased. Both of my Fender basses are black on black with rosewood fretboards.

 

[sonic 7]

My favorite Jazz bass color is white/ tort pick guard/ matching headstock. Close second would be Antigua.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

Help me choose between these 3 jazz basses, based mainly on the colour.

(Although they range from Squier Affinity, to Squier 40th Anniversary, to Fender Player, they are all fine for me.)

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[Alessandro Cruz]

Looks like crap.

Until you coat them with clear finish...

 

[Hounddog409]

I'd def say go with Player but with maple neck so you don't get stuck with Pau Ferro.

Get stuck with? Nothing wrong with Ferro at all.

 

[Alessandro Cruz]

Get stuck with? Nothing wrong with Ferro at all.

Some people will keep whining about Pau Ferro for the aesthetics, while for me the main thing is functionality.

If one's the main concern, I present you the following...

 

[CallMeAl]

I like the first, black n white.

normally I’m a big fan of burst/black/maple… but if that’s the exact bass you’re looking at I’d pass. Too much black, not enough burst. Looks whack!

 

[butterfingers1]

I like the first, black n white.

normally I’m a big fan of burst/black/maple… but if that’s the exact bass you’re looking at I’d pass. Too much black, not enough burst. Looks whack!

I know what you mean about the sunburst, it’s part of the new Squier 40th Anniversary line. But the more I look at it the more it’s grown on me. Aged, dignified, solemn.

 

[N4860]

Black is great if you want to disappear even more on stage.

 

[rickwrench]

I see nothing green.
∴ All meet minimum expectations.

Rick

 

[Deleted member 271037]

That’s interesting. I have a white Player precision with Pau Ferro, I like it, it has its own look, I oiled it new last spring.

I had a 1985 Ibanez with rosewood, yes darker softer oilier (and I never oiled it).

My Epiphone Embassy is supposedly laurel, but it looked like rosewood, and since I oiled it it’s downright luxurious, like ebony.

I had a Squier with laurel that was awful, looked like grey plastic. Yet other Squiers with laurel can look quite nice, it’s very variable.

Indian Laurel can look amazing too! Just take a look at Gretsch guitars! But like you said, with Fender/Squier it can vary a bit. Some of them look very nice, others are rather bland and grey. I guess Fender must go for for the cheapest wood they can find. With a Fender/Squier I would take laurel over their ugly pao ferro any day though!

For what it's worth my Epi Embassy is pao ferro. They now seem to have changed the specs to laurel. If yours looks like rosewood, is it possible that it's an older Embassy? Mine looks VERY much like rosewood and is a great example of how beautiful pao ferro can be, even on cheap instruments. Just not with Fenders.

 

[Deleted member 271037]

I would have to agree, but Squiers don't come with Pau Ferro. They come with Indian Laural, which I understand is from the Rosewood family.

No it's not. Pau ferro is much closer to the rosewood family than indian laurel, at least from a biologial perspective. But none of them are true rosewoods (although pao ferro is sometimes referred to as Santos Rosewood, as well as some other names with "rosewood" in it).

 

[Marko 1]

Black is great if you want to disappear even more on stage.

If you do see anything, it'll be a bunch of smudge marks.

 

[Malak the Mad]

If you do see anything, it'll be a bunch of smudge marks.

Well, you're not wrong. (...says the Aerodyne owner. )

 

[Doug4321]

Normally I’d say sunburst but the black and white really looks best of those particular three.

 

[petermwright]

I’m not a fan of black bodies (on Fenders at least), so the sunburst for me.

 

[butterfingers1]

Indian Laurel can look amazing too! Just take a look at Gretsch guitars! But like you said, with Fender/Squier it can vary a bit. Some of them look very nice, others are rather bland and grey. I guess Fender must go for for the cheapest wood they can find. With a Fender/Squier I would take laurel over their ugly pao ferro any day though!

For what it's worth my Epi Embassy is pao ferro. They now seem to have changed the specs to laurel. If yours looks like rosewood, is it possible that it's an older Embassy? Mine looks VERY much like rosewood and is a great example of how beautiful pao ferro can be, even on cheap instruments. Just not with Fenders.

2017 Epiphone Embassy, first year of production, pretty sure it’s laurel. And this is before I oiled it, it’s now darker.

 

[pepj]

I'm into custom colours atm but the sunburst out of those 3.

 

[badinage]

My favorite Jazz bass color is white/ tort pick guard...

I see nothing green...

I’m not a fan of black bodies (on Fenders at least)...

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I agree with this. Jazz basses look good to me white/lean vintage white, or some lighter variation of blue/green, (but not LPB, it's too common now and seems to often now lean too "royal-blue" in hue).

As a fan of dark boards, I also dislike the "Fender-version" washed-out corrugated box-looking Pau Ferro. Indian Laurel is acceptable, kinda sorta. F-1 Oil helps kinda-sorta. I'm about to try "Mohawk Fingerboard Oil", I hear it infuses a more permanent darkening. I have two 2022-version Squier CV60s Ps with Indian Laurel for a good side-by-side comparison. We'll see.

I wish Fender would get the message on the super-dry washed-out Pau Ferro being a turn-off (to the point of "deal-killer") for (apparently) some considerable portion of us.