It looks old in a bad way to me. Can we start a 'hate artificial relicing' and a 'hate woosy 50s car pastels' group? Come to think of it, its fine. It just makes my gear look better.
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I equate the tort with the cheap picks you got for free when you had to go to the music store for lessons with some old smelly guy teaching you the Mel Bay method but you want to play KISS.
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Just for that, when I finish my restoration on my '74 natural Jazz bass, I'm putting a tort guard on it.
So there.
So there.
Sorry I was late to the ROTH meetings, as I was scouring the faire countryside burning tort.
Thou shalt not tort!
I torted twice today and got yelled at. Apparently nobody believes that stink bugs bark.
Tort pickguards are disgusting.
Why any bass ever came with those on them in the first place, years ago, I'll never know.
Maybe they thought it looked cool way back then along with the car styling and overstuffed furniture. But all that belongs to another era , including Tort, and it should have stayed there.
A Tort pickguard on a bass immediately makes it look nerdy, geeky, unhip, square, clumsy and non-musical.
Why any bass ever came with those on them in the first place, years ago, I'll never know.
Maybe they thought it looked cool way back then along with the car styling and overstuffed furniture. But all that belongs to another era , including Tort, and it should have stayed there.
A Tort pickguard on a bass immediately makes it look nerdy, geeky, unhip, square, clumsy and non-musical.
I thought you folks would be interested in a recent makeover I did to my 2011 Fender American Standard Jazz Bass. It came with a three-tone sunburst finish and a tortoiseshell pick guard, the latter of which I was on the fence about. At first, I liked it -- it looked kind of cool in an old-school sort of way. But as I started gigging more with it, I saw how it looked in photos from the gigs: the pick guard stood out as a nasty orangeish/pinkish mess. Ugh. I finally found a black replacement pick guard (no small feat if you're a lefty) and put it on yesterday. I love how it looks now.
Here are the before and after photos. (Sorry for the terrible lighting and quality, I took them from my cell phone in my terribly-lit bedroom.) Enjoy!
https://www.talkbass.com/media/before-tortoiseshell-pick-guard.8993/full
https://www.talkbass.com/media/after-black-pick-guard.8992/full
Here are the before and after photos. (Sorry for the terrible lighting and quality, I took them from my cell phone in my terribly-lit bedroom.) Enjoy!
https://www.talkbass.com/media/after-black-pick-guard.8992/full
I hate to break it to you man. Everything is backwards.I thought you folks would be interested in a recent makeover I did to my 2011 Fender American Standard Jazz Bass. It came with a three-tone sunburst finish and a tortoiseshell pick guard, the latter of which I was on the fence about. At first, I liked it -- it looked kind of cool in an old-school sort of way. But as I started gigging more with it, I saw how it looked in photos from the gigs: the pick guard stood out as a nasty orangeish/pinkish mess. Ugh. I finally found a black replacement pick guard (no small feat if you're a lefty) and put it on yesterday. I love how it looks now.
Here are the before and after photos. (Sorry for the terrible lighting and quality, I took them from my cell phone in my terribly-lit bedroom.) Enjoy!
https://www.talkbass.com/media/before-tortoiseshell-pick-guard.8993/full
https://www.talkbass.com/media/after-black-pick-guard.8992/full
I hate to break it to you man. Everything is backwards.
Aw man, I've been doing it wrong this whole time?! Haha
Great player......what an ugly friggin' bass though......