Pickguard color for a black strat.

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Best options for black guitars: Gold, Black or Brown Tort.
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SKC Willie wrote:
BacchusPaul wrote:Gold anodised.
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Maybe you should go over to Strat-Talk and see what they reccommend?
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71Smallbox wrote:Maybe you should go over to Strat-Talk and see what they reccommend?
: *lolwut*
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Anyway... the gold anodized it tempting me now. Who cuts custom gold anodized guards?
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Thom wrote:Best options for black guitars: Gold, Black or Brown Tort.
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cobascis wrote:
Thom wrote:Best options for black guitars: Gold, Black or Brown Tort.
cogito ergo sum...thing or other...
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Off topic, sorry, but what does that swelling bloated eye emoticon signify? My pointer won't tell me. I'm guessing it's an extreme form of boredom, maybe disgusted boredom. Tort on black works for me, even red tort.
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61fury wrote:Off topic, sorry, but what does that swelling bloated eye emoticon signify? My pointer won't tell me.
If you Quote the post it will show you the title of the emoticon in the message editor, in this case "lolwut". I assume it's an animated equivalent of o_O.
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I like black/white/black or mint personally. :) Most anything looks good on black. :)
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HNB wrote:I like black/white/black or mint personally. :) Most anything looks good on black. :)
It arrived today, and came with a black/white/black one (thought it was just black) - I saw a black LP recently with a gold pearl pickguard that I thought looked amazing, so I went ahead and ordered a tort guard, a gold pearl one, and a yellow pearl guard as well to try it out.

Since the strat has a big CBS headstock and a black SD Invader, I didn't think that a mint guard would match :(

Oh, and it's getting a big fat 70's amp knob.
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Make sure to post pictures please. :)
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I like plain red black red. No pearl or tort just red.
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Post by mkt3000 »

And the winner is...

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...until I can get a custom gold anodized guard made.
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What colour is that? Minestrone pearl?

I like it, though.
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Niiiice. You've brought me another step closer to liking strats.
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Came here to say black, but it turned out pretty great.

Didn't even know that thing even had his own signature guitar.
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post beer and kebab shits pearl?
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Post by MagnetInMyHead »

I like the combo! Reminds me of Rockin' Halloween.

I'm a 1-ply sort of guy myself and probably would have went with plain white. Yours looks much more fun.