Solid brown basses - not translucent

[Klaxxi]

Back of my bass is brown.....trans brown but I like it.View attachment 1174318

The grain patter on that neck is beautiful

 

[oren]

This recent photo of a fretless G&L Kiloton in whiskey with the satin frost topcoat really got my GAS going.

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[devnulljp]

This is the best Brown bass

 

[Relsom]

My '81 L2Ke was a nice solid brown. I believe it was called Mohoghany, like the wood under it. It wore through fairly quick, right at the forearm contour.

 

[NOVAX]

Goin' down to brown town, baby!

 

[howlin]

Maybe you're looking at it from the wrong end . . .

Sorry. I couldn't resist.

 

[Steadfast]

If your searching for the brown note it doesn't hurt to look like the brown note as well......

 

[superdick2112]

Simply not a popular option.
Looks like poo on a car, & looks like poo on a bass too.

 

[danosix]

Those are both sexy basses.... I would bet its the old car sales approach. Take your customer to the shiny red car first to get them hooked. A brown bass won't scream at you from the sales rack like that shiny red one will... However after looking at those two examples I would say otherwise.

THIS - it's all about what sells, and in a guitar store with enough stock to warrant an unusual choice like non-woodgrain brown on a bass, that's just not going to call to people in a sea of metallic reds and blues and sunbursts.
Also, by the nature of guitars being wood, people think of woodgrain finishes when they think of brown.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Fender's mocha finishes from the 70s are the browniest-lookimg brown basses you could ask for when viewing them onstage. They scream brown.

Looks like poo on a car, & looks like poo on a bass too.

My bandmate in the 1970s had a Fender Stratocaster in that chocolately-brown factory finish. Definitely looked like the Hershey's bar in the OP's pic.
Also definitely conveyed poo...

 

[MultiScaleMale]

I played a Fender P bass in the early 90's (borrowed instrument) that had a solid muddy brown finish. Mocha, I believe, was a semi transparent finish and you could see grain in it. This bass had no grain. Jack had a similar colored bass in a picture that was in one of the compilation CDs slung over his back.

 

[micguy]

Ask a lighting guy about brown or taupe - generally, those kinds of colors don't look good under stage lighting. At least that's what I've been told - one of the places I play has guidelines for what to wear, and brown...not something they like.

Also, there's the whole association between brown and....well, let's just say that visible wood grain helps it not look quite so much like.....

I have a couple brown basses, but one's really dark (it looks black under almost any stage lighting), and both have

visible grain if you get close.

 

[Fender_Bender]

Friend of mine had a brown Jazz Bass back in the '70s, factory color. I forget the color name. It was slightly metallic looking, if I remember correctly, and had a dark pickguard (maybe black?). The brown wasn't as dark as root beer. Kind light brown, but not tan. I loved the look. Somehow it seemed like the color made it sound chunkier, LOL.

Bobby Sheehan of blues traveler is playing a brown jazz bass w/ perloid blocked maple neck in the outro of the movie "Kingpin". Cool song,great player, cool looking bass.

 

[Drifter_Bass]

I used to be in possession of a vintage Hondo PBass refinished in a "stucco" brown - it was as hideous as it was amazing. "Drunk UPS Brown" is what I referred to as. Recorded with it a few times, then returned it to it's owner. Weird bass. Grindy as ever.

 

[DavC]

my first , very missed , Parker Fly Deluxe gtr was Rootbeer ( brown sparkle ) pretty color ..

 

[Arizona Jones]

Sahara Toupe from Fender's International Series circa late '70s - early '80s.

 

[B-line]

Man BROWN is getting a BEAT-DOWN!
Looks like ****, can't even match your oufit to your Bass at gigs, Wow!~

Admittedly, Brown might not be my 1st choice for a finish, nitro or urethane But-
My SC is Brown, that's a Redwood Burl (about a zillion years old) over Mahogany.
BROWN.

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If I were told I couldn't wear my brown Brooks Brother suit at the gig w/ this Bass...I QUIT!

 

[JIO]

Simply not a popular option.
Looks like poo on a car, & looks like poo on a bass too.

As is always the case - opinions vary. I very much dig this Porsche hue and brown as a colour in general. It's the colour of earth and repeated many times within natures palette. Brown, like every other colour has many shades/hues/values which will attract/appeal or not to any one person.

 

[aldaa]

that's one beautiful bass

 

[Lowtones11]

I got this on Reverb from Ishibashi Music.
What is this? Gorgeous.