USA Lakland Sonic Blue

[MattF007]

Anyone have a pictures they can share of a USA Lakland in Sonic Blue? Pictures on the internet seems to vary quite a bit depending on lighting

 

[Treyheartsweed]

Subbed, let’s see them pics!

 

[Mastiff_5]

No. I don’t have a picture of one.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Anyone have a pictures they can share of a USA Lakland in Sonic Blue? Pictures on the internet seems to vary quite a bit depending on lighting

This is from Lakland's site. If you can't trust the maker's site, I guess anything goes...

 

[saltymonkey]

 

[Admiral Akbar]

I always thought Sonic Blue was nearly white in color. At least it is for Fender. I’d bet Lakland Sonic Blue would be very similar.

 

[saltymonkey]

My Decade was made when Pat Wilkins finished all of the USA made basses. That Sonic Blue is definitely much more vibrant than traditional Fender Sonic Blue. Probably closer to Daphne Blue than Sonic. That DJ-5 above looks closer to actual, traditional Sonic Blue than mine does.

 

[Kindness]

IMO the traditional sonic blue is gorgeous. It's way easier to find a close, but not quite right version (like most examples so far). The "right" sonic blue is far and away my favorite color for a Fender style instrument. The near misses are very very far from my favorite.

 

[Kindness]

I always thought Sonic Blue was nearly white in color. At least it is for Fender. I’d bet Lakland Sonic Blue would be very similar.

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All of this is obviously entirely personal preference, but I hate the mint guard on Sonic blue, but put a white guard on this bass and I can't think of anything prettier

 

[cymbop]

I ordered a Lakland in sonic blue as a personal dream bass -- and I worried a lot about whether their version of it would be too dark, too light, whatever. I looked at pictures of different sonlc blue instruments for three months. Take-away: how sonic blue looks in a photograph has mostly only to do with how the photo is taken and processed. At the end of the day, the Lakland hue of sonic was perfect for me, not darker like a daphne and not quite as washed out as some Fender versions.

Leaving Chicago:

3.5 years later:

 

[jd56hawk]

I always thought Sonic Blue was nearly white in color. At least it is for Fender. I’d bet Lakland Sonic Blue would be very similar.

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Fender should change the name to Barely Blue.

 

[Kindness]

I ordered a Lakland in sonic blue as a personal dream bass -- and I worried a lot about whether their version of it would be too dark, too light, whatever. I looked at pictures of different sonlc blue instruments for three months. Take-away: how sonic blue looks in a photograph has mostly only to do with how the photo is taken and processed. At the end of the day, the Lakland hue of sonic was perfect for me, not darker like a daphne and not quite as washed out as some Fender versions.

Leaving Chicago:

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3.5 years later:
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Perfection.

 

[Admiral Akbar]

I love Fender’s sonic blue — and the basses and guitars in sonic blue closely resemble the picture I showed. As one poster just said, it’s “barely blue”

 

[MattF007]

This really helps thank you all. My order is a 44-94 in sonic blue with a tort pickguard.

 

[Kindness]

This really helps thank you all. My order is a 44-94 in sonic blue with a tort pickguard.

Tort?!?!



This is where tort belongs on a Lakland:

(My Glaub turns 20 this year!)

 

[MattF007]

Tort?!?!



This is where tort belongs on a Lakland:
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(My Glaub turns 20 this year!)

Agree tort and sunburst for sure. What recommendations of pickguard for sonic blue? I think mint green also looks good, not a big fan of perloid on a pickguard

 

[Kindness]

Agree tort and sunburst for sure. What recommendations of pickguard for sonic blue? I think mint green also looks good, not a big fan of perloid on a pickguard.

IMO white only.