The Real Buttercream (Bongo photo)

[stu42]

I'm a relative newcomer to this forum and I've been lurking for a while but since I just received my first Bongo the other day - a new-old stock Buttercream Bongo 5 HS - I thought I'd post a picture of it that shows the real colour of buttercream.

Before I received the guitar I searched the web for photos of Buttercream EBMM basses but I found most of them didn't really show the colour that accurately.

To help with the colour reference I photographed the guitar on top of a white towel and put a dish of butter next to the guitar. It was still really hard to show the details in that dark brown tort pickguard but the colour of the paint is pretty accurate.

I hope this is useful to those who are looking.

Stu

 

[DTG]

man thats class a dish of butter!!!!
vice cool looking bass

 

[GreyDad]

veerrryyy nice

 

[phatduckk]

nice bass man! great score getting it NOS

i think every new bass pic should have food in it from now on.

and welcome to the forum!!
-Arin

 

[Colin]

Buttercream is sweet, congrats and welcome...

 

[Surly]

Another beautiful Bongo.

 

[bassmonkeee]

A Bongo in your first post, and a dish of butter.


You will do well here, I think.

 

[Art and Music]

"It's like butta' !!!!
Bet it plays like butta' too!
Congrats! Just posted my first SR4 here today, too! Ain't life grand!

 

[stu42]

Thanks guys. It really is a beautiful bass and I'm really stoked about getting it after searching for quite a while and missing out on a couple of Bongos before this one.

I mainly wanted to show, for the benefit of people who haven't seen it but are interested to know what it looks like, that Buttercream is really a light shade of yellow. I told my wife it was described as being an aged/off-white and she said "nope, it's yellow...pastel yellow" and I'd have to agree.

Anyway...I'm really looking forward to getting this bass out on a gig. One thing I'm really happy about is that it sounds fantastic acoustically - great resonance and projection - so I think it will be awesome through my amp (GK 400RB-IV / Neo 112).

 

[petruccirocks02]

Thats probably one of the best representations of that color I've ever seen. I love the butter dish next to it in the pic, thats pretty clever. Haha. I'm sure that thing plays as good as it looks. Thanks for posting the pic and sharing with us. Welcome to the forum by the way, good to have ya aboard.

-Phil

 

[Dr Stankface]

Your GK rig will make that Bongo SING!

Congrats!

 

[jaylegroove]

Keep on posting that kind of pics, and I'll end up with a major Bongo GAS. If this finally happens, my wife may not agree, so I'll have to sell the wife

 

[jaylegroove]

BTW, this reminds me my local dealer has a NOS Buttercream SR5. Oh no, not GAS again. Going to eBay my blonde

 

[The Crow]

I hope it's real butter & not margarine.