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I'm such a geek for authenticity with fender basses so for me black has a white guard or black for a post 75 vibe never tort

Pearl on a Mustang is acceptable but on a sunburst jazz tort every time

What bass is the pickguard in question for?

I've read loads of stuff about fender guards and there's a lot of different theorys but this is what I got Up to 65 leo was buying nitrate celluloid from Italy and each batch was a bit different, some with the mint hue ( mint was never an option from fender it was just how some batches of"white" looked )some more amber Opinion varies about what gives them the mint look, an earlier theory was it was cos the outer layers became more translucent as they age allowing the black middle to show through although this has since been debunked.A company I think called Lashing chopped a damaged one up and found it got less mint nearer the middle and when they cut it back with solvent it got whiter but still mint So they reckon there were mint/amber in the first place but get more tinted with exposure to light and pollutants It was this material that warped too which to me is a cool fender vintage look

The fascination is cos up to 65 fender pickguards were nitrate celluloid which looked very different and started aging very quickly , a 2nd hand pickguard would also be shiny, the nitro paint was also totally different hence why that worn look has become such a thing for fenders Why does every thread about aged stuff get hijacked by people saying you shouldn't do it , it's wrong etc etc There's some styles of bass that aren't for me so I wouldn't buy one however I wouldn't find a thread about em and say I hate them and so should you

DBs sound great , big smooth punchy but they're heavy SL I had some and they've got amazing low end for something so light but they don't punch like the DB GS only for used em once as hired backline, bit weird sounding, not for me

People do it cos it's easy to get a smooth tone and bluff notes a bit but it's cowardly , be strong brothers ,leave those mids in and play with conviction and finesse!

Guitarslinger is the German company I think, they look okay but a bit dark and the haven't got a tort p in stock at the moment

cheers rubis, that mint spitfire looks the absolute business, love the warping, so authentic. I've seen those ebay ones they look really good but not as good as the spitfire and if I can dodge the duty through getting my mate to bring it over the spitfire mint is a bit cheaper I hadn't realised CS werea different fit though, that may throw a spanner in the works, anyone know how they're different?

Ta good to know

Cheers bassbod, the WD is pretty good but still not quite there for me, PM incoming

Does anyone know if custom colour basses actually came with tort , I thought they were always white and pics in books suggest this but you see CS ones with tort, I wonder if this has become a thing cos it looks cool and sunburst basses got refinished , is pino's bass all orig?

That thread's a bit worrying, the only vintage fender one I've seen so far was over a grand! I've got my eye's peeled for a 2nd hand spitfire on reverb and talkbass

Cheers Steve

I'm a massive fender geek and I love the old 60s tort guards to the point where anything else looks instantly all wrong to me I've got a surf green CS P with a gold anodised guard which is cool but for me it's a 60s looking bass with a 50s guard so a fancy a tort one Spitfire guards look amazing but are insanely expensive ( although I wouldn't say overpriced considering he's making a bespoke sheet of celluloid to your spec) I've got a mate in America who comes over a lot so I could dodge duty etc but £230 odd quid for pickguard , am I going mad? Anyone got one? What do you reckon?

Annoying isn't it, don't buy from him

Yeah think he was briefly in whitesnake in the mid 80s

Huge fan of Colin and backdoor, he does get talked about on here from time to time

I played an old one and it was great and really light, were the previous ones basswood?

How about a pair of barefaced 210s and a Mesa d800 I've got a svt cl that I love but I rarely take out cos it's so bloody heavy , no class D will sound the same but I find the Mesa D has a wide open clarity that has a similarity to a valve head Or a Walkabout if you want a grittier old school midrange?

I see Bassdirect has got them in stock, anyone on here got one yet?