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Post by LTB on Jun 8, 2020 2:36:52 GMT -5
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Post by pdf64 on Jun 8, 2020 2:41:19 GMT -5
Sorry, but both look great!
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Post by LTB on Jun 8, 2020 5:14:17 GMT -5
Sorry, but both look great! Thanks😉 My daughter and my lomg time best friend and guitarist both like the stock off white better so with that I am putting it back to stock.
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Post by Riff Twang on Jun 8, 2020 8:47:10 GMT -5
Fair enough, but personally I quite like the Mother Of Pearl. It makes that Lake Placid Blue really pop.
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Post by LTB on Jun 8, 2020 9:01:13 GMT -5
Fair enough, but personally I quite like the Mother Of Pearl. It makes that Lake Placid Blue really pop. Thanks, I wish it were Lake Placid Blue. The room lighting makes it look that way but it is a tad lighter called Tide Pool Blue
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 8, 2020 9:36:57 GMT -5
Oh the MOTO is better! Good choice...looks great.
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Post by woody on Jun 8, 2020 14:29:48 GMT -5
Just to muddle things up a bit more, I say to you Mint Green. Nice bass btw.
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Post by Riff Twang on Jun 8, 2020 23:11:55 GMT -5
Thanks, I wish it were Lake Placid Blue. The room lighting makes it look that way but it is a tad lighter called Tide Pool Blue OK, still nice.
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Post by MJB on Jun 9, 2020 5:02:44 GMT -5
MOP for the win!
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Post by Taildragger on Jun 9, 2020 11:56:21 GMT -5
Another vote for the MOTS.
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Post by bassngtr on Jun 9, 2020 16:26:34 GMT -5
GREAT color. I bought a Strat once just to own a Lake Placid Blue guitar, but I like your blue just as much.
I also like both PG but vote for MOP - it does make the blue pop more IMO. Congrats!!
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Post by LTB on Jun 9, 2020 21:30:53 GMT -5
Thank you all for your opinions. Decisions Decisions
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Post by Rick Knight on Jun 13, 2020 6:59:07 GMT -5
Both look good but I prefer the stock.
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Post by windmill on Jun 13, 2020 7:03:35 GMT -5
MoP over here
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Post by matryx81 on Jun 14, 2020 9:11:28 GMT -5
Just to muddle things up a bit more, I say to you Mint Green. Nice bass btw. I want to muddle it up even more by saying mint pearl. I do not think anyone has those pre-cut though. I think you have to buy a sheet and then cut it.
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Post by BobbyMac on Jun 14, 2020 17:02:33 GMT -5
I'd go tortoise shell or gold anodized myself...
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Post by tele68 on Jun 15, 2020 7:31:24 GMT -5
MOP for sure!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2020 7:53:35 GMT -5
stock
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Post by LesTele on Jun 15, 2020 10:47:49 GMT -5
Alternate them! Change them every other month. I even have a suggested soundtrack.
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Post by LTB on Jun 17, 2020 2:37:38 GMT -5
Change them every other month. I even have a suggested soundtrack. yeah, put magnets on the back of the guards, magnets in countersunk holes in the body but away from pickups and then glue some screw heads in the pickguard's screw holes LOL
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Post by Fat Tony on Jun 18, 2020 8:06:19 GMT -5
The popular vote for which looks best is one approach. However, the "other approach" for a solution is to satisfy YOUR opinion. I tried a Mother of Pearl pick guard and a smokey gray/black pickguard on my used blue P-Bass back in 2001. (I believe it was Lake Placid Blue but could have been similar or the same color as your P bass....far too long ago to recall actual color, just what I believed at the time.) The gray pearloid looked hideous to me, and a few months later saw someone in a YouTube video with the same idea....sorry, it looked good on his, and for "me" I am still glad I went back to original.
On the other hand, when I bought a used white P Bass at the local, it looked hideous to me with the gray pearloid and I tried both a "tortoise shell with more red than brown" and a plain "brown tortoise shell" and played that bass for several years as my number 1 (3 color sunburst MIM P Bass) with the brown tortoise shell.
I was able to make my audience comfortable at "all acoustic gigs" by using the "right color" that let my solid body bass "fit" the personality of our music and genre (Americana, country, ballad rock and when appropriate, some gospel). (This was the MIM P bass with 3 color sunburst.)
My point is....experiment and find what YOU like. Family opinion should bear some weight in the decision, but you get 60% and they get smaller percentages because this bass is an expression of our personality-identity and a statement of "this is me".
OR buy what is available cheap and dare somebody to tell you that you play great, but that is one ugly bass. Other people have no idea how much damage a Fender bass can inflict when swung like a Louisville Slugger, going for the fence.
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Post by LTB on Jun 26, 2020 3:00:08 GMT -5
n the other hand, when I bought a used white P Bass at the local, it looked hideous to me with the gray pearloid and I tried both a "tortoise shell with more red than brown" and a plain "brown tortoise shell" and played that bass for several years as my number 1 (3 color sunburst MIM P Bass) with the brown tortoise shell. That is exactly what I did. I had a 2011 Fender American Special Jazz Bass with Black Pickguard. I changed it to a Reddish Brown Tort that leaned more read and it made a beautiful bass. I hear you and like the Red Tort on Oly white bass I really liked it so no opinion necessary but the bass in this post I looked and looked at them and was kinda leaning toward leaving it stock but couldn't make up my mind (sitting on fence about it) so with that I got other's opinions
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Post by HeavyDuty on Jun 27, 2020 11:11:19 GMT -5
I vote MOTS.
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Post by LTB on Jun 28, 2020 4:39:17 GMT -5
Just to muddle things up a bit more, I say to you Mint Green. Nice bass btw. You know a long FDP member George Edmonst (edmonstg) gave me a Mint Green Jazz pickguard a few years ago he had laying around. I tried it and wanted to like it but just couldn't . Thanks for the idea though woody
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Post by sirWheat on Jun 28, 2020 15:36:10 GMT -5
Definitely MOP.
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Post by Ayns on Jun 28, 2020 17:14:26 GMT -5
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I think the stock guard looks best, but I can see how tortoiseshell would look sensational
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Post by LTB on Jun 29, 2020 1:05:04 GMT -5
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I think the stock guard looks best, but I can see how tortoiseshell would look sensational No need to be sorry. I wanted opinions as I was on the fence but slightly leaning towards stock. I do have a red tort I tried but didn’t look right
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Post by rdr on Jun 29, 2020 19:48:21 GMT -5
MOP no contest!
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Post by LTB on Jul 3, 2020 5:55:20 GMT -5
Ok in the end I just wasn’t fond of TIde Pool Blue so for my birthday my wife bought me a new Fender Standard Artic White body and I changed the body and had a Red Tort Pickguard I previously tried on the original body that goes great with this body color. I had a 2011 Fender Oly white w/red Pickguard American Special Jazz I loved that I reluctantly had to sell . This is close enough imgur.com/gallery/EEF9rh1
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Post by woody on Jul 3, 2020 7:42:24 GMT -5
Very sharp. So now you’ve got that blue body just quietly waiting for a new neck and innards...
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