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POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 4th, 2008, 1:04 pm
by Rodent
If you had the opportunity to choose a color that is not a traditional color scheme for lefty basses, and that color was a choice between these three, what would it be?

NOTE: For this poll, please don't consider these bodies as representative of the manufacturer or style.

Transparent Blue
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Honeyburst
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Fireburst
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thanks for your thoughts! ;)

all the best,

R

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 4th, 2008, 6:29 pm
by Marcocolo
Of those 3, I'd go for the Honey.

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 4th, 2008, 6:40 pm
by baalroo
Honey, by far.

EDIT: I hate flamed and quilted tops so it throws it off for me, but looking at the backs of those first two I actually think the transparent blue is pretty cool too.

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 4th, 2008, 10:27 pm
by pjmuck
Transparent blue for me.

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 5th, 2008, 4:17 pm
by andrew
Of the three I like honeyburst the best, but I'm not really a fan of any of the three.

I'm pretty unimaginative when it comes to finishes, my faves are sunburst, natural, black and white, which works out pretty well since 99% of lefty basses are one of those four.

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 5th, 2008, 11:39 pm
by lefty68
The transparent blue,is cool ,but i would prefer tranparent Black ;)

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:11 am
by Bassaria
dig the blue but with flame can u really go wrong with anything?

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 7:52 am
by Basshappi
The Blue and the Honey.

For some reason the Fireburst doesn't really do anything for me.

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 4:02 pm
by danomite64
Blue, then Honey.

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 12:01 pm
by Rodent
hmmmm ...

thoughts on a Swamp Ash Jish body (no figured top) finished in Honeyburst?

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I don't really care for the black pickguard, and would most likely use a Tortoise pg instead. The question then is Birdseye or Rosewood fretboard

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thanks for your continued input!

all the best,

R

p.s. even though the highly figured top is killer, IMO it's hard to justify the added $300 cost

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 5:57 pm
by Basshappi
I'm lovin' that tort/maple combo!

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 11:35 pm
by lefty68
Birdseye fretboard ,transparent pg

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 8th, 2008, 3:48 am
by DaBassman
Birdseye!!! :D

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 8th, 2008, 3:26 pm
by baalroo
I like the rosewood.

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 14th, 2008, 11:25 am
by Pbass58
Personally, I would respond with "None of the Above". Though all three are attractive, I'd go with Capri Orange as my first choice of "non-traditional" colors. Graffiti Yellow is also interesting (and it never fails to turn heads or blind people, LOL, and of course, NOTHING beats a P Bass in surf Green. My opinions, of course.

Bart

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 14th, 2008, 11:27 am
by pjmuck
+1 on the graffiti yellow - with a black pickguard.

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 15th, 2008, 8:33 am
by Rodent
Thanks to everybody who participated and shared their thoughts. I took the feedback from this thread and one other I posted elsewhere, and combined they resulted in a virtual tie between the transparent blue and the Honeyburst ... so I flipped a coin and the Honeyburst won out for the specific body I was considering.


Custom colors are absolutely no problem to do in either Poly or Nitro. If you have an example of a preferred color, it's rather easy to have a body (and even a matching headstock) finished with it.

all the best,

R

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 10:25 pm
by MidnightBass
I like funk when it comes to pretty much anything.... if it looks a little outside the norm, I like it. Colors? tough choice, but the phrase Deep Purple" keeps coming to mind.

MB

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 4:42 am
by Andy
I like the honey, it's similar to my Warmouth 5. I always like a yellow bass though.

Andy

Re: POLL: f you could choose a "non-traditional lefty color" ...

Posted: November 4th, 2008, 1:12 pm
by Pro Stock John
Honey ftw, the blue is too 80's. :mrgreen: