Doner Designs
Steve Doner
- Jun 2, 2012
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Sanity question....
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Unless...you make it Camo with a super high gloss finish. So it could reflect so much light, it could never be lost in the woods.
I think the idea of camouflage is to transform an item in such a way that blends within its background.
I find important to note that painting the bass with shades of green will be useful if ever you want to disguise your instrument while fighting some rebels in the hills of the Colombian Andes. Between missions, you could learn some tunes, but mind that rebels find particularly irritating most forms of death-metal arpeggiating slap djent.
I find important to note that painting the bass with shades of green will be useful if ever you want to disguise your instrument while fighting some rebels in the hills of the Colombian Andes. Between missions, you could learn some tunes, but mind that rebels find particularly irritating most forms of death-metal arpeggiating slap djent.
Ya, but you’re from Texas! In Texas a cammo bass is required!
‘The last time I played a cammo bass, there was a Texan in the White House! And I’m not
talkin’ about George W. Bush, I’ll tell you what!
Dusty Hill, Hanks’ cousin
Don’t mess with Texas
Jeffery Hammond Hammond of Jethro Tull
What body? All I see is a table.
Not sure if you intend some sort of a tribute to the military. Per wikipedia the Navy was the last service to use woodland BDU and they phased it out in 2012.
The Army and Air Force used a combat uniform with the same tonal pallete after they phased the woodland BDU out. Pockets were a bit different and the Army Combat Uniform (ACU) used a digital pattern while the Airman Battle Dress uniform (ABU) use and analog pattern. Currently both services are phasing in a new uniform called the OCP which stands for operational camouflage pattern. I believe it has the Army style pockets. The tonal pallete is a bit more brown and and the pattern is analog, so it appears to be moving back towards the woodland style.
I deployed a few years before the Air Force transitioned out of the woodland BDU, so I was lucky enough to be issued the new ABUs. When I returned from the deployment I was really used to seeing just about everyone in ACUs or ABUs. That's when I realized how monochromatic the ABUs were. The BDUs really looked garrish to me at that point, so I was happy to wear the new uniform.
Here's the OCP camo pattern that is being phased in.
As you can see it has a lot more brown than green, but otherwise looks very similar to the woodland camo pattern. Make sense given we are still involved largely in areas with lot's of arid land.
Non-American here: I find most military-themed items in very bad taste...having said that, it's a matter of taste. I personally find the vindication of violence, in the form of using out-of-context military symbology, a sad sign of us still living in the past and not being able to leave behind the love for machines made to kill.
Camouflage isn’t necessarily a military thing. It’s also a hunting, fishing, and outdoors thing.
Honestly, I hadn’t even thought about the camo as military.... I was more on the “outdoors, hunting and fishing” thing. If I were to do a military theme I wouldn’t do camo, I’d do something different.
That said, thank you for your service !
