Show your White Basses!

[_jojo_bass]

DJ5! I painted to covers to complete the look. Its killer and pearly!

 

[Lowendtech]

Picked up this SB-2 a month ago. Lovin it.

 

[Jaco Taco]

Question for all you white bassist owners out there: is there a way you can prevent or slow the yellowing color that happens? Keep the bass indoors and out of sunlight? Or will that not work?

I know there are plenty that dig the vintage yellow color that happens but I was just wondering if there are ways (or finishes) one can employ to prevent or slow that from happening?

 

[jp8848]

My two! 2002 FSR Precision and 2013 Fender Japan 66 reissue Jazz.

 

[Danomo]

Well, I've got a second white bass now, a 2011 Bllacktop Jazz.
Included of course, is the obligatory cargo shorts shot...

 

[holdfast]

Magnum Galaxy V Precision copy.

 

[FlaCharlie]

My very first bass was white - an Aria short scale bought new around 1972 or 1973.

Here's the No-Name Fretless Precision I posted about in this recent thread: NBD No-Name Precision Fretless | TalkBass.com I'm already thinking of cutting a few more pickguards since I have several more colors of naugahide I'd like to try.

 

[Matty Koff]

This thread is what caused me to hunt down my white bass.. which was originally going to be a P-bass.. but the P-bass I ended up with was on the wall and felt yummy.

So I have to necro it. Me playing her last Friday, using some DR Black Beauties.. they call her the Stormtrooper.

Before I replaced the pots and knobs and strings below:

After I changed the pots and knobs below:

 

[9mmMike]

Question for all you white bassist owners out there: is there a way you can prevent or slow the yellowing color that happens? Keep the bass indoors and out of sunlight? Or will that not work?

I know there are plenty that dig the vintage yellow color that happens but I was just wondering if there are ways (or finishes) one can employ to prevent or slow that from happening?

It is generally the clear that is yellowing and not the white at all. Not always but "typically". A nitro yellows from exposure so reducing that should help. The poly clears seem to go more brown than yellow if they go at all. Not sure but I'd imagine that if you treat it like a white car (with a clear coat) it will stay white. Wax, cleaner wax, etc.
Keep it clean, keep it out of the sun and smoky bars/environments. I wonder if a white with no clear coat yellows as much. Anyone?

 

[Jamvan]

My 2012 Squier Chris Aiken P on my 'workbench'.

I took the base signature model and upgraded the stock pickups with an EMG GZR P and wiring harness to add a tone control, Babicz FCH-4 bridge, replaced the mirrored pickguard, and added Dunlop Dual Locking strap locks. Can't get much more white than this!

 

[9mmMike]

@Jamvan - Lovin' that pearl guard and pearl block combo. Stunning.

 

[armybass]

2015 American Standard

 

[taylor16]

My new Mas Hino-made La Bella Olinto. The nitro finish has been relic'd by James Carbonetti and looks and feels great to me. The Olympic white looks aged and comes across more as an old pale sonic blue in my eyes.

 

[tangentmusic]

My MIM P-Bass Deluxe.
There's that green stuff again..

 

[jjk2007]

Enjoying my Sire!

 

[Twangster101]

My lastest white one

 

[MEKer]

my 1991 Washburn XS-8 bass with the Status pickups. The white has aged to a very nice old ivory. My first bass I bought new in 1972 was, in fact, a white Fender Precision. EDIT: this is from the seller's old "for sale" pictures, rusty strings and all. Now, fretboard is oiled and sweet, new strings, all polished---beautiful. I guess I better get off my lazy bum and take MY OWN pictures!

 

[Bassist Jay]

This one is a prototype for the bass player of Thousand Foot Krutch. I do all of the R&D work on the basses at Zane Guitars and they sent me this one to go through. I also have a second white Zane P style bass being built right now but it is not finished yet.

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[godofthunder59]

I made this a few years back.

 

[Flaked Beans]

Not really but it looks pretty white on this picture: