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Tort on Black........


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I’ve never liked Tort on black basses before, something just didn’t seem right. However after a bit of bass in bass out upgrading downgrading nonsense, I ended up with a 1969 Tort pickguard. 

I strapped it to a bit of ply to stop it from shrinking as the only bass I had to put it on is a black USA Geddy Lee Jazz bass, and not liking Tort on black I never thought to give it a go.

however!

tonight I thought “sod it, let’s give it a go”, and all of a sudden I love Tort on black 😁

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Yeah that looks pretty tasty actually! I think for me it has to be the 'right' tort. Too orangey our light red doesn't look good to me. I do like the dark brown and the red you have. Especially that satin/worn look rather than brand new and shiny!

Now, where's my spare plate gone I can try out again heh!

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6 hours ago, Machines said:

My Cort GB35 with Wilkinson bridge and pickups looks alright. 15327822918277257416797613524641.thumb.jpg.abe997e3e1a7520bf23d879d7d211e59.jpg

Yeah the pearloid looks OK there against the dark board rather than maple, but then it commits the crime of having rear routed pots but a scratch plate with no control plate! 

That said one of the best basses I ever played was the same, an Xotic jazz. 

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On 28/07/2018 at 20:22, stingrayPete1977 said:

Yeah the pearloid looks OK there against the dark board rather than maple, but then it commits the crime of having rear routed pots but a scratch plate with no control plate! 

That said one of the best basses I ever played was the same, an Xotic jazz. 

That’s pretty much exactly what I’m about to have made for me by Mike Walsh 😂

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I had a black strat with white scratch plate, most boring looking guitar ever, looked so much better with tort.

On 02/08/2018 at 03:00, rodney72a said:

Tort looks good on pretty much everything apart from blues and greens.

Totally agree, tort on shell pink is the ultimate combo.

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