What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[kwmlondon]

32 minutes ago, mike f said:

Wear and tear, scratches, dints and the like I can stand. I just can’t get my head around, and will not buy, items that haven’t even had a duster over them. 

“Item for sale, dust, pubes, dog hairs and dead skin included”.

Dust, Pubes, Dog Hair and Deadskin were the members of a short-lived punk band I heard on John Peel's radio show.

[mike f]

10 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

Dust, Pubes, Dog Hair and Deadskin were the members of a short-lived punk band I heard on John Peel's radio show.

The Rash, on E Coli Records if I remember correctly.

[Frank Blank]

47 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Back to my undies again!

 

Never again!

[petecarlton]

3 hours ago, mike f said:

“Item for sale, dust, pubes, dog hairs and dead skin included”.

 

Bargain!

[petecarlton]

On 16/01/2026 at 16:55, snorkie635 said:

Tort, white, black, gold aluminium - you pays your money and takes your choice. Some folks will love some of these and others will hate them.

 

At least they're Ps

[HeadlessBassist]

On 16/01/2026 at 15:04, spencer.b said:

I know it's irrational and it's all down to personal taste and I know I'm the d!CK here but this is s safe space right?

Custom colour fender basses should have white/mint guards , look in the books , nearly all white guards , why oh why do people put tort on them, sunburst, yeah tort of course, Olympic white beautiful, fiesta red OK I'll let it pass there is the odd one (although more than likely a sunburst bass refinished by the distributor like selmer or kitchens to order when new) but Daphne Blue , all wrong .Candy Apple Red are you f***!ng serious, Shoreline gold, I feel sick 

Apart from looking all wrong the celluloid tort is really hard to replicate unless you drop a fortune on a spitfire, why oh why do fender put awful cheap looking tort guards on custom shop custom colour basses , with an aged mint guard you'd have to get close to tell it wasn't the real thing ,with a tort one it catches my eye a mile off

Sorry everyone!

(I must admit I'm part of the problem here, I too am complicit in the illegal fender trade, one of my 5 p basses  is a surf green Custom Shop which has a 10 hole gold anodised,all wrong , what were fender thinking, it would look the nuts with white/mint and with the period correct bevel , oof , but can I find a 10 hole mint guard , can I f***!!)

 

 

 

 

Brilliant post, Spencer!

 

For me, it's the white/parchment/mint that always looks wrong. They make a nice bass look cheap (unless it's mint on aged white), because that's what the Mexican basses had in the 80's & 90's. A nice dark red or brown tort goes with practically everything, and a black scratch guard solves all colour crimes. I recently put a tasteful dark red tort on a black American Professional II Jazz I took in as a p/x. Looks much better than the OEM mint.

[Woodinblack]

To me, Tort always makes anything look cheap, probably because some of the first no name basses I had used tort. White and black work. 

[Reggaebass]

I think the tort guards can make or break a bass, the only ones that come close to the originals are spitfire and Avantguard , but they are really expensive