Which Unique Choice Would You Have Picked?

[SlartiBartfast]

Hey everybody! I just finished the last day of my undergraduate today.  :hello2:

I was already floating around and super happy, but then I came home and found one of those beautiful UPS Quantum View e-mails from our heroes over at Warmoth!

What impeccable timing! It's like they knew! It only took 45 days to paint a showcase body and custom-build a fretless neck for me. Since I'm in a crazy-good mood  :blob7:  I thought I'd post a picture with the body of my soon-to-arrive bass next to all of the "Unique Choice" fingerboards I had to choose from. Obviously, I already made my choice weeks ago, but I'm just curious to see what y'all would've gone with.

If it makes a difference in making a decision, the neck is raw Wenge, and the finerboards are all Pau Ferro. Post a comment and let me know which piece of wood you would have paired with this body!


J Bass with Fretboards

 

[line6man]

1304 or 1305.

 

[SlartiBartfast]

1304 or 1305.

Haha, good call. Those were the two I had a hard time choosing between, actually.

 

[bagman67]

Hmmm... I think I'd have gone with a straighter grain, and less pinkish, given the busy-ness of the streaking in the BK body  - probably 645.  But that's what makes horse races.


Congratulations, by the way -- on the bass, and on finishing your undergrad program.  What's next?

 

[fdesalvo]

645 for the contrast. 

 

[AutoBat]

1312, 640, 645 would've been my choices with that body.

 

[SlartiBartfast]

Hmmm... I think I'd have gone with a straighter grain, and less pinkish, given the busy-ness of the streaking in the BK body  - probably 645.  But that's what makes horse races.


Congratulations, by the way -- on the bass, and on finishing your undergrad program.  What's next?

Thank you!  ccasion14:

I'm starting full-time on Monday working for my local city government in their environmental services department. I do marketing and promotion for waste reduction and recycling as well as air quality programs. I'll stick around through at least the end of the year while I apply to grad schools.

 

[SlartiBartfast]

Oh, and I chose 1304.

 

[Loomi]

My eye was immediately drawn to the 645 because of the color similarity.  Of course that's probably moot post-finish.

 

[swarfrat]

I'm really not sure why they even list options, as there is only one combination of neck and fingerboard allowed if you get a BK body. Just kidding, Goncalo is ok in a pinch;

 

[keeper006]

645.

 

[crash]

Not even a second thought, 645.  That one popped out right away.

 

[Updown]

Oh, and I chose 1304.

Interesting .....

It kind-of depends on the finish your having on the BK Body ......
I would have gone like most others thou with 645 ..... to late now  :laughing7:

BTW, Nice looking body  :icon_thumright:
So what colour did you get it ?

 

[Cagey]

If I was forced to choose from that lot, I'd have picked 645. But, given a free hand, I wouldn't have used that fretboard wood. I'd have gone with black Ebony. The body is too pretty to have a competing fretboard.

 

[ezas]

I like that 1305 and 4 have that swirly smoke look like the body but I gotta go 645 or 490 for the color match.

 

[SlartiBartfast]

Here's the link to the finished bass:

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=19624.0

 

[keeper006]

That came out great! nice choices.  ccasion14: ccasion14: