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Your "Hot or Not" on a bass


Low End Bee

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Yes Please

Black or old fender colours (sea foam green, sonic blue, shell pink etc.) maple necks, Passive electronics, Strap locks,

 

No Thanks

Gold Hardware, natural finishes, Red basses (i have one but still don't like it), Complicated electronics, inlays that are artistic!, skinny strings. 5+ strings

 

What i do like about this thread is the fact that everyone has varying views. nice to see that everyone is different

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4 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

No Thanks to Jazz basses? My dear sir, have you taken leave of your senses?

 

4 hours ago, Low End Bee said:

Nope. They are horrible :)

 

Not a fan of jazz basses either, or any offset Fender design. L-O-V-E Precision Basses.

 

I like white, blue and pink guitars, not a fan of coffee tables but have a couple, and black guitars but have a few. HATE Gibson Cherry, but have 2...

6 string and 4 strings, never a 5.

Love weird shaped Gibson designed basses except the RD.

Hate lined fretless.

Prefer maple boards for looks, but really don't care what my guitar actually has.

I like gold hardware, and usually have one piece on my parts guitar, not likely to have a full set.

 

I do not care about neck profiles or nut width or string spacing.

BASS: Roundwounds on fretless, Flats on fretted, no exceptions. I de-fretted a bass because I liked the roundwounds that were on it.

I change bass strings sometimes when I get a new bass... sometimes... and never again.

LOVE Gibson 6 string guitars, But prefer Fender Basses.

HATE flavoured coffee! no cream no sugar.

 

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My Nots are more defined than my Hots... so...

NOTS

  • Oval  Lakland bridges
  • Oval Delano pickups
  • Cream pickup covers (like 70s Di Marzios)
  • Modern single cuts
  • Comedy (unergonomic) bass and headstock shapes
  • Warwick flat D shaped necks
  • Maple fingerboards
  • VV wiring, give me a toggle switch or a blend knob any day
  • Lack of frets
  • More than 4 strings...

 

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Yes please:

Precision basses

Candy Apple Red

Lake Placid Blue

Olympic White

Bass Collection basses.

No thanks:

More than 4 strings

Thunderbird's

Jazz basses

Ibanez basses

Some of the really odd shaped exotica that comes up for sale from time to time

Anything that MDP has been anywhere near :ph34r:

 

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6 hours ago, Low End Bee said:

 

No thanks

Black pickguards - Solid colour finishes - Chrome hardware - Passive controls - 4 strings - Old basses that have been modded interestingly - Racing stripes - Precisions - Mustangs - Rickenbackers - Weird short scales - black strings - Silk wraps on strings - Chunky necks - Mosrites - Lollipop tuners - Graphite necks

 

Oh yeah baby!

Gold hardware - Natural wood finishes - 5 or more strings - Jazz basses -  Loads of knobs and switches - active electronics - Pointy 80s - Black hardware - Neon strings  - Warwicks - Fanned Frets - Skinny necks - Multiple exotic wood coffee tables - EB3's - Cherry sunburst - D tuners - tort pickguards - ramps - Alleva Coppolo headstocks - headless basses

Sorted out that minor mistake for you Mr Bee.

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I have fairly broad tastes, but things that jump out that I don’t like are pale maple necks, cold-looking metallic finishes (LPB doesn’t count, neither do sparkle/metalflake jobbies, all of which I love), mother of toilet seat anything (except on real 60s-esque weird stuff)......not a fan of red (unless it falls into the sparkle/flake category), or 3 tone sunburst. Not keen on gunmetal coloured hardware (proper name escapes me; been a long day). In fact a bass with a pale maple neck, cold metallic finish or 3 tone sunburst and MOTS guard would fail miserably in my eyes - a lot of more modern Fenders would fall into this category.

However I love really ambered maple, pastels and custom colours like Sonic Blue, Seafoam Green etc. I like wear, even if it’s a relic. So a lot of older or Custom Shop Fenders would fall into this category. Not keen on shiny new for the most part. In simple terms, if it looks cold, I probably won’t like it. If it looks warm and cosy, I likely will. 

Obviously I love Rics, Tbirds, anything that looks like a 50s/60s American car. I also love boutiques with really nice woods and what I consider aesthetically pleasing designs, such as with something of Art Nouveau about them, e.g. Alembic, Sei etc. Love Buckeye Burl. Not keen on boutiques that look like they’ve been designed by someone with no design sense whatsoever, which seems to be quite a lot of them (the sort of thing that looks like an 8 year old’s idea of an “out there” “fancy” bass, hand drawn with a pencil and with no flow to the curves). Prefer passive but happy to use active if it works. Like headless. 

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