Most Elegant Bass That You've Seen?

[Iristone]

Butterscotch 51 P bass or J bass
Mapleglo or Fireglo Ric 4003
Tobacco burst or Pelham blue Thunderbird with chrome pickups and hardware

 

[Chad Michael]

Roscoe LG... so swanky, so svelte...

 

[wysiwyg248]

I posted a Sadowsky previously, but if I'd had a very formal gig, this would be the bass.

 

[jamro217]

Let's just say none that reside here.

 

[dougazbass]

G&L M2000, P Bass custom, Carvin Bromberg

 

[dougazbass]

Custom Warmoth dinky P reverse Head. Solid Walnut. Barts.

 

[madmaskbass]

My vote goes to MTD and ACG. I think Fbasses are also quite elegant.

 

[Beej]

Some beyootiful basses in this thread

There's also some hideous crapola that clearly demonstrates a lot of people have no taste.

 

[Chickenwheels]

Love this thread, so many amazing basses.
For me the Wals take the cake. (And almost anything with a koa top)

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That Honduras mahogany fretless just can’t be beat in Wal land. Wish I could order the same top.

 

[xKingfisher]

Love this thread, so many amazing basses.
For me the Wals take the cake. (And almost anything with a koa top)

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An absolutely gorgeous Koa Rob Allen popped up in the classifieds yesterday:
For Sale - Rob Allen Deep 5 Koa Fretless

 

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[grimjim]

Someone else posted this here somewhere. The most beautiful bass I've ever seen.

 

[Chrisk-K]

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This is it. Nothing can be more beautiful than this. Mod, please close this thread

 

[equill]

Elegant is beauty through simplicity. Most of the examples here do not fit that criteria. Are they attractive? Depends on your tastes. Are they elegant? Nope.

Probably an old single pickup bass (thinking a single coil P bass) would be the most appropriate for this.

You're almost there. Elegance also implies a degree of gracefulness.

That's something I just don't see in a Precision. It's practical, it's simple and it's popular (especially here) but I can't agree that it's at all graceful or elegant.

 

[rantbot]

Elegance. Hmmm. I look for genius; a penetrating perception of what's important, minimalist implementation of a mechanism to realize it (i.e., simplify it just enough, but no further), and all followed by the elimination of the superficial.

For genius, I'd go with anything sporting the Precision split pickup. Everything else is mere detail. The end result is elegance.

 

[xKingfisher]

I'm coming to realize that I just don't like pickguards on most bases. Especially Ps.
I think it is the visible screws/color contrast. Makes it look too cluttered.