View Poll Results: Favorite Bongo color (please post pickguard pref)?

**adouglas** · 08-12-2005, 08:18 AM

Did a search and didn't quite find what I was looking for, so:

What's your favorite Bongo color, and which pickguard do you like with it? It's SO hard to tell what the colors really look like from web photos.

The Bongo is giving me serious GAS.

**Psycho Ward** · 08-12-2005, 08:23 AM

ButterCream for my first one. Black or Stealth for the next one.

**AnthonyD** · 08-12-2005, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by Psycho Ward

ButterCream for my first one. Black or Stealth for the next one.

What he said!

**MCBTunes** · 08-12-2005, 08:30 AM

stealth is #1.... candy red and lava pearl would be my other choices though

**adouglas** · 08-12-2005, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by Psycho Ward

ButterCream for my first one. Black or Stealth for the next one.

Got a link to a really good photo of what buttercream looks like?

**Mobay45** · 08-12-2005, 08:31 AM

I chose Desert Gold partly because it's the color I own. I do like the color even though I picked up the bass off of Ebay.

**Psychicpet** · 08-12-2005, 09:09 AM

Desert Gold w/Tort p/g ....... what can I say, it's really grown on me

**midopa** · 08-12-2005, 09:11 AM

Plain black with Midopa Custom Shop Algae Green pickguard.

**Slater** · 08-12-2005, 09:12 AM

I own an Egyptian Smoke with Python pickguard, so that's what I voted for...

My second choice would be Candy Red with a Black Pearl pickguard.

**bovinehost** · 08-12-2005, 09:15 AM

I want to see Graphite Pearl and Egyptian Smoke together - I can never remember which one of those gives me wood.

**Mobay45** · 08-12-2005, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Psychicpet

Desert Gold w/Tort p/g ....... what can I say, it's really grown on me

HEY!!! How did you get my bass to Canada without me knowing!!!

**adouglas** · 08-12-2005, 09:31 AM

I lean towards Desert Gold myself, with one of the white pgs (ice, 'loid or just white), for two reasons:

1) I like the pseudo-chameleon, color-changing nature of that particular paint. Sometimes it looks coppery, sometimes yellowish, sometimes reddish, depending on the light, the background and the angle. Check out psychicpet's photo above to see what I mean.

Also look at the various photos you'll find online and you'll find that you really can't tell what color it actually is in person. Here are two from Bass Central...same color, but the b/g and lighting makes them look totally different:

This one:
http://www.basscentral.com/musicman/...OON_OPT_tn.jpg
http://www.basscentral.com/musicman/...DG_MOON_tn.jpg

and this one:
http://www.basscentral.com/musicman/...DG_BPPG_tn.jpg

2) It seems to me that something so outlandish and George Jetsony needs a strong color statement. It's just not a buttoned-down, conservative kind of instrument.

Having said that, I'm very partial to black/tort as a combo for solid-body painted instruments (prettiest Fender I ever saw had that combo, with a rosewood fretboard...only I can't remember if it was a Jazz bass or a Strat). If I went for a SR, it would most likely be black/tort. I'm just not sure about the Bongo.

Stealth doesn't do it for me...too Goth/metal. Flat black guitars always make me think that somebody just took a spray can of flat black Rustoleum and went for it. Cool in its own way, but not classy IMO.