Show your ashtrays/pickup covers

[sgtpepper]

I wonder if they can do that for my Lake Placid Blue Jazz Bass since it's a metallic color.

- Steve

I think they should be able to do that. They did it for me. If you get the color and paint your tug bar post pics! It would look awesome.

 

[DinoRock]

1974 Fender Jazz with original original ashtray and pup cover.

 

[Siggy]

Noel Redding Jazz

 

[gary m]

Squier Cabronita and CV 70s Precision:

 

[Dark Horse]

The 51 RI

 

[Dark Horse]

Better pic....

 

[TexasRed1974]

Would any of you who don't want your Jazz covers be interested in letting go of them cheapish? I'm in the market, and figured it'd be better for all involved to get a set from someone who doesn't want theirs instead of a newly made set.

 

[giannispezza]

1966 Jazz Bass with original pups and bridge covers.

 

[bobyoung53]

Not to be a complete idiot, but I've never played a bass with ashtrays. What is the advantage? I've always wondered.

The first thing I do when I get a bass with ashtrays is take them off and then usually lose them or give them away. They get in the way of plucking and picking and cut down the amount of tones you can get on the bass and as far as i can tell don't do anything for the sound. I've done this with both Ricks and Fenders. They look cool but that is about it as far as I'm concerned, it seems to be the style nowadays to leave them on but back in the 70's, 80's and 90's you were hard pressed to see any basses with them on at all. I took them off my first P bass bought in 1971 complete with foam mute under the bridge ash tray and left the ash tray in the case of my Am Hotrod P bass I bought last year and took them off countless Rickenbackers over the years.

 

[Stdjazz4]

Covers = Sexy.

 

[bassclef112]

 

[Savage Hippie]

Anybody have any suggestions on where one could find a set of the 50's tele style ashtrays? Chrome preferably

 

[Savage Hippie]

Just like the ones that, Dark Horse posted a few above me ☝

 

[jhb138]

Anybody have any suggestions on where one could find a set of the 50's tele style ashtrays? Chrome preferably

I see them on eBay pretty regularly, both new and used.

 

[RedVee]

Not a Fender, can I still play ?

 

[Midak]

Fender Custom Shop 1964 Jazz Bass NOS:

 

[1stnamebassist]

View attachment 974706 Not a Fender, can I still play ?

You can play! Is that a Kay or Harmony bass by chance? It looks a lot like a Harmony I had for awhile in the early 70's.

 

[mojomike001]

Here's a Kay/Teisco from late '60's or early 70's sporting a factory chrome bridge cover.

 

[RedVee]

You can play! Is that a Kay or Harmony bass by chance? It looks a lot like a Harmony I had for awhile in the early 70's.

Close. It is a Challenge, I think it is a Teisco and looks very similar to those built in the late 60s, and on I guess.

 

[bcerenza]

Here's mine!