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Pick my P-bass color!!!

What colour should my p-bass have?

  • Fiesta Red

    Votes: 38 37.6%

  • Daphne Blue

    Votes: 37 36.6%

  • Other?

    Votes: 26 25.7%
  • Total voters
    101
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cigi

Aug 22, 2006
538
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#1
Hey,

After having thought about it a zillion times, I finally got to a point that I'm going to build my own parts bass. I had a lot of hardware lying around and these are the specs so far:

Alder allparts p-bass body
Maple rosewood allparts p-bass neck
Schaller bml tuners
Schaller high mass bridge
Tortoise p-bass pickguard
Tusq nut
Dunlop straplocks
Still thinking about the pickup (see the pickup-forum) either fender 60s, SD spb-1 or delano vintage p

Now I'm thinking of a colour to paint the body in.

It definately is going to have a rosewood fretboard (prefer the tone), tortoise pg and a clearcoated neck.

I'm doubting between these two colours:

Fiesta red
Daphne blue

Here are examples of the colorcombos.

I wasn't going for the pino palladino look, but it happens to be one of my favorite looks.

What do you think?

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#7
My current faves in order:
1. Sage green- but don't do it because I want to first. :)
2. Mocha/Root Beer/Baby poop brown- I eventually return to this a my all-time favorite.
3. White- this would need to be beat to heck.
All require tortoise PG to make my world spin properly. Green & white can go w/the rosewood board but brown MUST have a maple FB. :cool:
 
#10
Shell Pink with a white pearloid pickguard, I always thought that was a sexy color (I'm strictly natural wood now, so I don't paint my basses anymore). Or Teal Green with a white pickguard. Or Fiesta Red with a black pickguard and maple fretboard. Or Inca Silver with a black or tortoise pickguard. You can't lose when picking any of those colors.
 
#13
If you're really sticking with those two, I'd say the Fiesta Red because a) you like the Pino Palladino look and b) I think the tort looks better on it.

Having said that, I voted "other" since you gave me the option to chime in with my own suggestions. I personally love bursts (especially 3-tone sunburst, tobacco, honey, and cherry; less so for colored bursts like blue, green, etc) so a sunburst would easily be my personal first choice. But your musical influences don't seem too "traditional" so a sunburst might not be your taste. In that case I'd say my next choices that would "work" for you would be Olympic White or a Black.

But in the end, it all comes down to what YOU like. :)
 
#15
Thank's for all the replies.

I'm not a fan of green or brown. So that's ruled out.

I don't think I can paint a sunburst so that's ruled out.

I prefer Daphne over Sonic Blue so that's ruled out.

I have also thought about white or black, but I chose not to paint it black or white for the simple reason that they are very common colours. It's the first time I built a parts bass and I want it to have a colour that sets it apart from the flock.

In % Daphne is winnig. Actually my favorite too.
 

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