Pet Peaves

[hairy_walnut]

What are your pet peeves when it comes to basses?

I for one can't stand blue basses or white pickgaurds ugh

What are yours?

 

[pocketgroove]

Little thin jazz bass necks
Active electronics

 

[Gorn]

Pickguards on Fender style basses and Fender style basses with explosed cavities on the top so that you can't remove the pickguard.

 

[Baird6869]

Poorly done singlecuts with a out of proportion upper bout.

 

[TonyP-]

Rosewood Fingerboards

Lovely wood...I just like it more in furniture more then I like seeing it on a bass.

 

[cchorney]

I tend to rest my forearm on the top of the bass when playing so - bass bodies that aren't rounded on the edges.

I also tend to rest my thumb on the top corner of the fretboard or neck pickup, so - basses with triple thick pick guards that don't leave enough exposed fretboard or pick guard for my comfort.

Also, flying V's. Just because.

 

[PimasterPearson]

I don't like candy apple red basses. But I have no problem with red guitars. It's weird.

 

[bassteban]

Incorrect usage of the term *fingerboard*(vs *fretboard*)
F-holes except on violin/viola, cello or[double]bass
Dots on fretless(hard to avoid on a defret)

BTW: it's *peeve*



Edit: I'd also like to differentiate between *pet peeves*(something that bothers you for no legitimate reason)as opposed to design flaws(opinion moreless, but lack of a forearm contour would likely be uncomfortable for the majority of players, whereas the f-hole thing is just my own personal pref in aesthetics)

 

[hairy_walnut]

I tend to rest my forearm on the top of the bass when playing so - bass bodies that aren't rounded on the edges.

I also tend to rest my thumb on the top corner of the fretboard or neck pickup, so - basses with triple thick pick guards that don't leave enough exposed fretboard or pick guard for my comfort.

Also, flying V's. Just because.

+1 on flying V's

 

[EdHunter]

Pearl pickguards. A lot of people love them, but they look out of place in most situations, to me. Pickguards should either be solid or have a design on them - I'm *gaspshockhorror* not too keen on tort, either.

 

[hairy_walnut]

Incorrect usage of the term *fingerboard*(vs *fretboard*)
F-holes except on violin/viola, cello or[double]bass
Dots on fretless(hard to avoid on a defret)

BTW: it's *peeve*

oops

 

[bassteban]

oops

No big deal- I do NOT wanna start a fight w/an Irishman.

 

[ko stradivarius]

Strings! I HATE basses with strings!

 

[hairy_walnut]

No big deal- I do NOT wanna start a fight w/an Irishman.

Ha. Sure I'm only a WEE Irishman

 

[Shawn Luckman]

Squier bodies being a bit thinner than a Fender body.

 

[Jim Nazium]

OK, I'll say it: acoustic bass guitars.

 

[Dan B]

Chrome hardware; I don't know why either because it looks great on some basses but on others it looks like poo.

 

[hairy_walnut]

*shudders*

 

[funkingroovin]

For me it's any shade of solid red and string action exceeding 0.5cm..

 

[Jim Nazium]

^^ Flying V with pearl pickguard, rosewood board, and chrome hardware! If it was acoustic, it would have hit everyone's peeve at once!