Tort or Mirror?

[Parzival]

I bought a cheap Bently Pbass that is about the color of the
Steve Harris bass. I am going to mod it into a Steve Harris
clone. Question is should I go with the standard mirror pick guard
or go with a tort? I have seen pictures of his blue Pbass
with a tort pick guard on it.

 

[Webtroll]

i think tort on the blue would be pretty sweet

 

[FourBanger]

Mirrored pickguard so all the rad dudes at the party can see how awesome their Zubas and neon tank tops look.

 

[bigmoosepi]

nothing worse than mirror or chrome pickguards to me, never seen them look good.

even on phil lynott's.

 

[almost human]

Mirror

YOu could look for black mirror like Vigier has on some of their guitars- that looks really cool IMO

 

[Draculea]

This is just my personal taste, go with the tort guard, I've never been a fan of those mirrored PGs, IMO they look awful.

 

[Mike Sorr]

I love mirror guards. I have a candy apple red precision and a black one, both with maple fingerboards and mirror pickguards. I think they look fantastic. And yes, I robbed the idea from Harris and Lynott.

 

[Major Softie]

Hate hate hate mirror. As a lighting designer I hate any mirrors on stage. As an audience member, I especially hate a mirror moving around on stage. In your living room it's fine. In the music store it looks great. In performance it's grossly irritating.

Black mirrors aren't as bad, but I still don't like them on stage.

I love tort (doesn't everybody), but lots of possibilities would look good on the blue body. Just not mirror.


Did I mention I hate mirror?

 

[Osztertag2112]

TORT!!

 

[Parzival]

I am thinking tort.

 

[FourBanger]

How about this: if you can get black or other tinted mirror why not TORT MIRROR!

 

[Stick_Player]

The mirror will increase the sustain, and boost the low-mids, with an additional sonic bump around 10k.

Go with mirror.

 

[Webtroll]

This is just my personal taste, go with the tort guard, I've never been a fan of those mirrored PGs, IMO they look awful.

Phil Lynott rocked a mirror guard pretty well

 

[marko138]

Mirror ALL DAY. Forget that tort.