Jazz bass color

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Bottom

 

Until you coat them with clear finish...

 

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...

 

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!

 

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

 

I see nothing green.
∴ All meet minimum expectations.

Rick

 

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.

 

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).

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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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.