Color wish list

[adouglas]

Here's a color I'd like to see:

A nice, rich, solid red. Not a pearl or metallic red...a Ferrari red. A lipstick red. A fire engine red. Not too over-the-top retina-burning vivid. It'd go real nice with a dark pg.

I was in Borders Books yesterday, flipping through some bass magazine and saw an ad with a F*nd*r J*zz in that color, with a black pg and rosewood fretboard. I have to say the combo looked REALLY good.

How about you? Anything you'd like to see added to the color chart? I mean, besides Flamingo Pearl....

 

[BigBallz]

Here's a color I'd like to see:

A nice, rich, solid red. Not a pearl or metallic red...a Ferrari red. A lipstick red. A fire engine red. Not too over-the-top retina-burning vivid. It'd go real nice with a dark pg.

I was in Borders Books yesterday, flipping through some bass magazine and saw an ad with a F*nd*r J*zz in that color, with a black pg and rosewood fretboard. I have to say the combo looked REALLY good.

How about you? Anything you'd like to see added to the color chart? I mean, besides Flamingo Pearl....

Curly top maple would be nice.

 

[adouglas]

Curly top maple would be nice.

Yeah, sure, and while we're at it why not spalted burl crotch padububinglacenut?

I was wondering about color, not wood.

 

[BigBallz]

Yeah, sure, and while we're at it why not spalted burl crotch padububinglacenut?

I was wondering about color, not wood.

Pardon me sir.....however did I miss "How about you? Anything you'd like to see added to the color chart?" statement. Yes, curly top maple would be on the color options chart.

 

[Dr. Nick]

Big Ballz: Did you formerly post on the Ampeg board? Any idea what happened over there? (Other people fighting like cats and dogs?)

 

[adouglas]

Pardon me sir.....however did I miss "How about you? Anything you'd like to see added to the color chart?" statement. Yes, curly top maple would be on the color options chart.

Just kidding...

I get the sense that there's a general dislike around here for the trend towards increasingly off-the-wall exotic tops, like those you see on a lot of boutique basses... but I may be wrong about that.

Some of those megabuck basses frankly look like something you'd find in a pile of mold-contaminated, water-ruined post-Katrina debris IMHO. But only the really extreme ones. I kind of like flame and quilt, when used appropriately (quilted Bongo? Ewwww...).

Actually fancy woods are already available in EBMM guitars....

...but those were designed from the outset with a separate top, weren't they?

The 20th Anniversary Stingray had a flame maple top, but AFAIK no other EBMM bass has had any such thing (Rod, please correct me if I'm wrong). Putting an exotic top on the body would mean changing the construction...and then it wouldn't be quite the same, right?

 

[BigBallz]

Big Ballz: Did you formerly post on the Ampeg board? Any idea what happened over there? (Other people fighting like cats and dogs?)

You know I did by your question. Ask me somthing you don't know.

 

[BigBallz]

Just kidding...

I get the sense that there's a general dislike around here for the trend towards increasingly off-the-wall exotic tops, like those you see on a lot of boutique basses... but I may be wrong about that.

Some of those megabuck basses frankly look like something you'd find in a pile of mold-contaminated, water-ruined post-Katrina debris IMHO. But only the really extreme ones. I kind of like flame and quilt, when used appropriately (quilted Bongo? Ewwww...).

Actually fancy woods are already available in EBMM guitars....

...but those were designed from the outset with a separate top, weren't they?

The 20th Anniversary Stingray had a flame maple top, but AFAIK no other EBMM bass has had any such thing (Rod, please correct me if I'm wrong). Putting an exotic top on the body would mean changing the construction...and then it wouldn't be quite the same, right?

Cool pics.....thanks for that adouglas....

 

[strummer]

Yellow

Green

 

[adouglas]

Yellow

Green

Yeah, a taxi yellow would be cool.
Green...perhaps a dark non-metallic green (British Racing Green)?

Maybe I'm just reacting to the fact that the vast majority of Bongos are pearl. Nothing wrong with that...I love my DG...but there's something to be said for solid colors.

 

[word]

seafoam green!!

 

[radiotrib]

Flip Flop

 

[adouglas]

Flip Flop

 

[maddog]

A nice mid green, not too dark, not too light. A nice deep green. I like that envy green. Too bad it isn't in production anymore.

 

[adouglas]

A nice mid green, not too dark, not too light. A nice deep green.

Metallic or not?

 

[strummer]

A nice mid green, not too dark, not too light. A nice deep green. I like that envy green. Too bad it isn't in production anymore.

Tom, will you wake up
There is a Envy Green Bongo 5 HH on clearance somewhere, and Katana recently reposted the link for your benefit.
Now buy one

 

[strummer]

Yeah, a taxi yellow would be cool.
Green...perhaps a dark non-metallic green (British Racing Green)?

Maybe I'm just reacting to the fact that the vast majority of Bongos are pearl. Nothing wrong with that...I love my DG...but there's something to be said for solid colors.

Solid colors are cool, but the way the light works your pearl bass on stage makes me soo happy

 

[midopa]

Here's a color I'd like to see:

A nice, rich, solid red. Not a pearl or metallic red...a Ferrari red. A lipstick red. A fire engine red. Not too over-the-top retina-burning vivid. It'd go real nice with a dark pg.

I was in Borders Books yesterday, flipping through some bass magazine and saw an ad with a F*nd*r J*zz in that color, with a black pg and rosewood fretboard. I have to say the combo looked REALLY good.

How about you? Anything you'd like to see added to the color chart? I mean, besides Flamingo Pearl....

Well, we do have Radiance Red and Candy Red:

 

[adouglas]

Well, we do have Radiance Red and Candy Red:

A nice, rich, solid red. Not a pearl or metallic red...

Both are metallic, aren't they?

 

[maddog]

Tom, will you wake up
There is a Envy Green Bongo 5 HH on clearance somewhere, and Katana recently reposted the link for your benefit.
Now buy one

Oh yes! Rub it in! If it had been a single hummer, I'd have it in UPS's little grubby hands by now. Alas...