Ibanez sells most of their parts. You could probably order one of the other pickguards.
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New Ibanez Talman
- Thread starter aproud1
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You missed my point. Look at all the other colors of the basses offered, even the GC blue one. They all have a tort pickguard. No other colors. There is no Ibanez pickguard in another color to buy. If a person wants another pickguard, say a parchment white on the red bass or a black MOTS for the black one, then the original pickguard will need to be duplicated by someone like Pickguardian.com in order to get a different color guard.
Ibby came up with some nice stuff this year. Retro look, p/j nordstrand , fanned frets, on and on....
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Looks like the added some new colors for the TMB-100! Soda Blue, White, and Candy Apple. Not sure if they are exclusive to Musicians Friend/Guitar Center or not.
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American Musical Supply has them, too. In fact, they posted them on their site before they were announced at NAMM, but then they pulled it off there. It might have been done accidentally. At the time, that was the only mention anywhere that I found.
"The more I look at at it, the more I like it. I do think it's good." 
I really dig the red and the green ones. I may be different than most, but I DO like the double bucker at the bridge.
Almost wish you could mix and match them. I love the ivory and mint green colors, but a matching headstock, that double J pickup, and the fret board on the TMB300 are nice. Very limited selection for Canada as usual for Ibanez. I will likely buy one of these in August when I go down to the homeland on vaca. I don't have a P/J bass yet so......
Anyone know the differences between the TMB100 and TMB300 models (other than different colors)? I'm liking the mint green, but MF only shows it in the -100 version. Not that I need any more basses, just no wife to yell at me!
Well - the obvious: -300 has the double J humbucker at the bridge, with a splitter switch, 100 just has a single J.
Well - the obvious: -300 has the double J humbucker at the bridge, with a splitter switch, 100 just has a single J.
Yeah, that I did notice, my question was really "is it worth the extra $100"? Both are cheap enough, currently, though. I just want the 300 in the mint green - no luck. Didn't need it anyway...
I agree! Why go to the effort of creating something reminiscent of the old Mustangs/Kays/Harmonys, etc. and put gorgeous flake finishes on then put a tort pickguard on? Pearloid is both MORE retro (given even Am STds have tort on them nowadays) AND matches the metallic finished better - obviouisly tort is best with the 3TS.
Having said all that - Ibanez does it again - they make the bass the Fender Jaguar SHOULD have been - and for $300.
They missed the boat with the EQ though - they should probably have left this passive or at least added a second switch to disable the active eq - also 2 slide switches would look way more retro than one.
I am really going to have to consider becoming an Ibanez guy...
EDIT: maybe I should trade my '76 P for one in each colour - that would be a cool looking arsenal on the wall! I would almost certainly want better pickups (at least in the P position), but who knows? Ibanez does some really impressive stuff at very low prices.
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Agreed - wish they'd do a lipstick pickup bass
Helpful - who knew guys who tend towards modern-style basses wouldn't go for this decidedly retro bass?
Huh, I'll have to read closer - I thought that was a coil splitter for the bridge pickup, not active EQ. Duh - nevermind, yeah, switch is coil splitter, the 2 band EQ is the (stacked) tone knob. I'd probably replace it anyway.
