Show your black & tort basses

[Caustic Crunch]

Where do you buy your pick guards? I've checked the Fender site and a site called WD I think...

Any other good places to shop?
I'm lovin' the look of the tortoise shell PG's.
Awesome.

 

[Nick303]

Pickguardian made my custom one for the JP, it is beautiful. I would start there.

 

[kobass]

My Sadowsky P5...

 

[bolophonic]

 

[Bodeeni]

 

[mark beem]

Awesome!

 

[mark beem]

Not mine but I wish it was..

 

[bucephylus]

Yup, this has been my favoritest custom color scheme for going on 30 years or so. Here are the two in my rack at the moment (and probably for a long time).

 

[JumboJack]

 

[Matt R.]

 

[CJAZ]

Where do you buy your pick guards? I've checked the Fender site and a site called WD I think...

Any other good places to shop?
I'm lovin' the look of the tortoise shell PG's.
Awesome.

Go to Amazon multiple options and genuine Fender is available. Also try The Find.com - They will show best prices.

 

[Natman]

Surprised nobody has posted one of these yet.

 

[Nick303]

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Matt R
What type of Jazz is that? It's gorgeous, can we see more pics please?

 

[ShoeManiac]

Here's my recent project P-Bass built, finally completed. And looking resplendid in black and tort if I might add:

 

[254 stringer]

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[toomanyslurpees]

Regarding where to buy your tort... A shout out to Pickguardian, I like red tort and I'm very picky about fit, Pickguardian has nice material and did a great job with the fit. WD has nice material but have been totally hit or miss (ok, never even been all that much of a hit) with fit, and where their fit was terrible I found their customer service is too. Chandler pickguards are cut perfectly in my experience but their material is the very brown stuff and their red tort material was the fake printed stuff that I don't like.

here's a stringray refinished in transblack...

This is the brown Chandler tort

Sorry for the skinny string pic, but this is one of the Pickguardian red torts, the white SR4 is wearing the same stuff now and I think it's a huge improvement. I love black and tort, nice thread!

 

[Moving Pictures]

Not mine but I wish it was..

I like that!

 

[Nick303]

ShoeManiac.
That's just about perfect looking.
What neck is it?

 

[ShoeManiac]

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Very nice Bass VI! Care to share more info about this one?

 

[ShoeManiac]

Where do you buy your pick guards? I've checked the Fender site and a site called WD I think...

Any other good places to shop?
I'm lovin' the look of the tortoise shell PG's.
Awesome.

I got mine from these fine folks: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

Notably, I got the Group E 41 Tortoise Shell (brown) 4-ply .095. The image below shows a comparison between the brown and the red. I prefer the brown because the material is true to what was used in vintage Fenders. It's a tortoiseshell material that's made in Italy. And over time it will age into that rich red color that you see on vintage instruments.