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What's your favourite finish on a bass?


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It depends on the bass but I am sucker for vintage white/cream. I don't like natural wood yet I wouldn't want my 4005 in anything else. I don't particularly like sunburst yet my Bex4, which I love the look of) is tobacco burst and I have a matching P and J in 3TSB. I don't really like black, it doesn't stand out on stage, yet I bought a Club bass in black as it looked so much better than the classic Hofner burst. I do really like retro pastel shades yet don't any. 

Basically I have preferences but if it suits the bass then I like it. 

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I don't own one, but in the 70s Fender did walnut coloured finishes on some of their basses. I love that finish, particularly on a P Bass . Also Walnut finished Gibson SG guitar...yes. Also, I love translucent black as a finish, particularly on a Fender-type bass. 



 

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11 minutes ago, thodrik said:

I don't own one, but in the 70s Fender did walnut coloured finished on some of their basses. I love that finish, particularly on a P Bass . Also Walnut finished Gibson SG guitar...yes. Also, I love translucent black as a finish, particularly on a Fender-type bass. 



 

This, you mean?

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Yeah that's pretty awesome.

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2 hours ago, BassAgent said:

This, you mean?

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Yeah that's pretty awesome.

Absolutely splendid, in a 1970s Britain kind of a way. It evokes watching The Sweeney, being savagely duffed-up by the school bullies (and being told "not to be such a bloody jessie" if you were stupid enough to tell  teachers/parents), winters of discontent and @Stub Mandrel's teenage diet. Ahh, happy days. 

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12 minutes ago, Baceface said:

Absolutely splendid, in a 1970s Britain kind of a way. It evokes watching The Sweeney, being savagely duffed-up by the school bullies (and being told "not to be such a bloody jessie" if you were stupid enough to tell  teachers/parents), winters of discontent and @Stub Mandrel's teenage diet. Ahh, happy days. 

Ah, the good old days (not said in jest either).

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