NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

[Johnny the Kid]

It's actually been finished for a couple months but I finally got around to making a thread about it.

MIM Fender Jazz Bass body, Warmoth Bloodwood neck with Tele headstock, EMG Mexican J Bass pickups. The hardware is all original to the body. I got the body for $20 from my high school band teacher. The neck was completely destroyed and unusable along with the pickups, but the bridge, machine heads, and the rest were still in good shape. I got a new pickguard on there and she plays like a dream. The neck's unfinished and feels amazing. I may refinish it over the summer. I liked it at first, but I'm not really digging the cream anymore. I'm thinking about going with black to make the red pinstripe on the pickguard pop out a bit more.

Unfortunately, the photos I took with my phone are too large, so I've linked to my Photobucket so you can see them here.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

Would it not be simpler to leave the body painted white and find a pickguard of roughly the same colour as the neck wood?

IMO, the thumb rest positioned between the pickup ends is;
1) Superfluous.
2) Unsightly.
3) A verboten adjective that young people use. (The opposite of awesome.)

Real Jazz Bass players rest their thumbs on the ends of the pickup housings.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

Would it not be simpler to leave the body painted white and find a pickguard of roughly the same colour as the neck wood?

IMO, the thumb rest positioned between the pickup ends is;
1) Superfluous.
2) Unsightly.
3) A verboten adjective that young people use. (The opposite of awesome.)

Real Jazz Bass players rest their thumbs on the ends of the pickup housings.

I've never really been a fan of that cream color anyways. I bought the pickguard with the intention of repainting at some point.

As for the thumb rest, yeah it looks like hell, but it's really comfortable to play on. I got used to playing five string basses and using the low B as a thumb rest, so that rest was positioned in roughly the same spot as the 5th string would be. i've tried J basses in the past and never really liked resting my thumb on the pickups. It always seemed either too close to the bridge or too far away for my tone.

 

[dg27]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

Looks really nice and I'd leave the cream. Not a fan of the thumb rest though.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

Looks really nice and I'd leave the cream. Not a fan of the thumb rest though.

Like I said, the thumb rest is there for my comfort specifically.

 

[dg27]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

I understand.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

Chuck this out!

http://imgur.com/CXRm9

 

[Lazarus1140]

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You don't need another person telling you they like the cream, so I'll just say I think your bass looks great! I'll add that pick guards are (obviously) less expensive and less hassle than paint jobs, and if I owned a bass exactly like yours I'd throw a Tortoise guard on it and thump it until the turtles come home.

 

[dg27]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

I owned a bass exactly like yours I'd throw a Tortoise guard on it and thump it until the turtles come home.

I agree 100%

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

You don't need another person telling you they like the cream, so I'll just say I think your bass looks great! I'll add that pick guards are (obviously) less expensive and less hassle than paint jobs, and if I owned a bass exactly like yours I'd throw a Tortoise guard on it and thump it until the turtles come home.

I'm not a fan of the way tortoise shell looks. I prefer solid colors. I may check out warmoth again and see if there's anything else I like. Or I may just got with no pickguard too.

 

[PFDarkside]

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Enhance the ska look!

 

[dg27]

Re: NFBD (New Finished Bass Day)

I'd look here:

http://www.pickguardian.com/

Tony has made several pickguards for me over the years.