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What color pickguard for this body?

gjbassist

gjbassist

Sep 7, 2005
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#1
I want to replace one of my jazz bass bodies with a lighter one and this one keeps catching my eye. The color is totally different then anything I have ever had. First off, is this color too much for a 48 year old guy who plays classic rock and blues? If I do get it what color pickguard do you think would go best with it?

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#8
I don't know how well you can tell from the full shot but the paint is a metalflake with fairly large specks.

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I was actually thinking about the vintage tort because I have one on another bass and it has some gold in it. Guitar Fetish sells them too.

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I do like the brown tort and the regular tort from Warmoth, which may work out great because I might do a P pickup in the neck instead of a J pickup and I can get either from them.

Keep your ideas coming.
 
#9
I am constantly amazed at the colors people would put a tort pick guard on. Any tort would look terrible on that color. Black, white, cream, or pearloid would all look great. But tort would tacky as an orange 70s leisure suit.
 
#11
Hopkins said:
I am constantly amazed at the colors people would put a tort pick guard on. Any tort would look terrible on that color. Black, white, cream, or pearloid would all look great. But tort would tacky as an orange 70s leisure suit.
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Well that could be true. I might hate it when I actually get it on the bass. Maybe it will clash too much with the metalflake paint. I have seen tort on some other colors that I didn't think it would work on such as seafoam green or lake placid blue and it looked good to me.
 
#12
The thing about tort is, which color? Even between brown and red, there's a lot of variation. One might look awesome, and the next look like dogmeat. On that bass though, I would probably go black.
Hopkins said:
I am constantly amazed at the colors people would put a tort pick guard on. Any tort would look terrible on that color. Black, white, cream, or pearloid would all look great. But tort would tacky as an orange 70s leisure suit.
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#13
gjbassist said:
Well that could be true. I might hate it when I actually get it on the bass. Maybe it will clash too much with the metalflake paint. I have seen tort on some other colors that I didn't think it would work on such as seafoam green or lake placid blue and it looked good to me.
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Hey its your bass, if you think a tort guard would look good on that bass, that's all that matters. But my opinions on tort is that brown tort only looks good on white and natural bodies. Red tort looks awful on everything.
 
#14
With a gold body I'd go for black hardware and a black pick guard or with chrome hardware and a mirror or chrome pick guard. And maybe even a black block and bound maple neck.

I normally love tort but not on gold metal flake.
 
#19
Hopkins said:
I am constantly amazed at the colors people would put a tort pick guard on. Any tort would look terrible on that color. Black, white, cream, or pearloid would all look great. But tort would tacky as an orange 70s leisure suit.
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This. I was never a huge fan of parchment or plain white guards, but I have to admit that they just work better in some cases. I have a honey blonde that sports a parchment guard and a charcoal frost that sports a mint green. I tried several colors on the charcoal before throwing up my hands and realizing that white or mint were really the best matches for it. I think the jazz bass in the pic screams for parchment/white.
 

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