When "Black&Maple" gets dressed up...

[b-unit]

I ordered in a Vintage White Pearl pick guard from EB for my lefty Ray to try something different from the all black look. Its like a fine tuxedo!

 

[strummer]

Neat!

 

[bovinehost]

Me likey.

 

[fly]

yes,very nice........

 

[b-unit]

Thanks guys. I actually ordered two of these pick guards as the other other one is destined for my Black Cherry Ray. I was surprised that one arrived before the other but I was in no rush. Just wanted to try another flavor. The black Ray feels like a whole new bass!

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

It looks nice.

It's so hard to get used to the look of a lefty bass!

 

[b-unit]

I'm just so happy that lefty EBMM bases exist!

 

[laneline]

looks good, love changing guards up once and a while.

 

[pnts]

Class act!

 

[Holdsg]

Nice contrast. In PG, to me it's all about the contrast.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I'm just so happy that lefty EBMM bases exist!

I remember when I got my first EBMM, a bass player acquaintance was upset that they didn't come in lefties at the time.

It must be difficult to keep all that extra left handed hardware inventory.

 

[Chuck B]

very cool looking

 

[Ian Perge]

Fantastic Bass as well as pictures! I'm of the mindset that if you own more than... *5* Basses, at least 1 must a "Tuxedo". Which means I'm in severe need of a Black or Trans Black Bass now!

Nice contrast. In PG, to me it's all about the contrast.

That's exactly the way I look at Basses with pickguards, in terms of both body as well as fingerboard colors. My Textured Cinnamon SUB Sterling's standard Flat Black 'guard got quickly replaced with a EBMM White Pearloid (as the SUB Sterling & "Regular" Sterlings are swappable) and I just placed an order last week to Tony @ Pickguardian for a custom "Black Abalone/B/W/B" pickguard for my SUB 5 after much flip-flopping and staring at Photoshopped mock-ups (I also had "Red Tort", "Silver Pearloid" & "Red Pearloid" in the running but wanted to go with a color/pattern not seen everyday... besides MM's "Moonstone" ) and I believe that both are far improved by the changes.

 

[drTStingray]

It looks great, fine choice. So different from the usual black/black pg look.

 

[b-unit]

The photos do make the guard look white but its actually a nice cream color. Not sure how the Vintage White will look on the Black Cherry but I agree that sometimes its fun to just switch things up.

 

[Chuck B]

I can imagine how it looks in reality - I had a similar pg on Brownie back in the 90ies. But I'm back to the original pg, the one and only...

 

[b-unit]

Sounds like you have a real gem there Chuck!

 

[Chuck B]

I used to have more MM and EBMM basses and each of them is a real gem. My heart is still aching but I had to pay the vet's bills...

 

[RyanO'Neal]

It certainly does look better than black on black, but I never liked the classic "Black&Maple" combination anyway.