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Post subject: PICKGUARD/PICKUP COVER COLOR CHECK
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:11 am
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Hi All,

I'm trying to go for this pickup cover and pickguard color combination. Please help verify the color.

Is it a parchment pup cover + white pickguard?

or a aged white pup cover + parchment pickguard?

Thanks in advance,

Dave


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Post subject: Re: PICKGUARD/PICKUP COVER COLOR CHECK
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:02 am
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730 wrote:
I'm trying to go for this pickup cover and pickguard color combination. Please help verify the color.


If you post a picture on a service that allows direct linking, we might just do that. Hint: Log completely out of your image hosting provider before writing a post with images, and then use the preview function.

Otherwise, I will have to guess, and say no, it is my opinion that day-glo pink pickguards don't go well with gold pickup covers.


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Post subject: Re: PICKGUARD/PICKUP COVER COLOR CHECK
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:11 am
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arth1 wrote:
730 wrote:
I'm trying to go for this pickup cover and pickguard color combination. Please help verify the color.


If you post a picture on a service that allows direct linking, we might just do that. Hint: Log completely out of your image hosting provider before writing a post with images, and then use the preview function.

Otherwise, I will have to guess, and say no, it is my opinion that day-glo pink pickguards don't go well with gold pickup covers.


Or post it on Facebook and then copy the address of the image.

All that said, photos have a nasty habit of lying.

Aged white is quite cream when viewed in isolation. White is certainly white. Parchment is annoyingly close to white and looks white unless viewed along side white.

And on an older guitar white looks nothing like any of the above.

And then you have mint which either looks green or white subject to what light you view it in.

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^ this being aged white and mint

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Post subject: Re: PICKGUARD/PICKUP COVER COLOR CHECK
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:54 am
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John Sims wrote:
^ this being aged white and mint


And very tasteful, I might add.

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Post subject: Re: PICKGUARD/PICKUP COVER COLOR CHECK
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:34 am
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Retroverbial wrote:
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^ this being aged white and mint


And very tasteful, I might add.

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Yes, you made the right choice there, John - very nice!

I feel inclined to tart up my fiesta red CS Strat's plastics. Right now I think it has a mint scratchplate, but the other plastics are a nasty cream colour (or have gone cream) and they're not doing the body any favours at all. Arjay said before that white looks good (and it always does) but I'd prefer something possibly less 'new' looking. From what you say, it sounds like parchment might be the one...

Cheers - Peter.


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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:25 pm
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Peter S wrote:
Retroverbial wrote:
John Sims wrote:
^ this being aged white and mint


And very tasteful, I might add.

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Yes, you made the right choice there, John - very nice!

I feel inclined to tart up my fiesta red CS Strat's plastics. Right now I think it has a mint scratchplate, but the other plastics are a nasty cream colour (or have gone cream) and they're not doing the body any favours at all. Arjay said before that white looks good (and it always does) but I'd prefer something possibly less 'new' looking. From what you say, it sounds like parchment might be the one...

Cheers - Peter.


You are very kind chaps.

Cream is most certainly "Aged white", as Fender don't do a cream as such, and "Aged White and Mint" seems to be the default on a lot of the range, current or past, when they were looking for a retro vibe.

I forget who but someone posted on here a parchment and parchment combination and it looked very classy.

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Post subject: Re: PICKGUARD/PICKUP COVER COLOR CHECK
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:04 am
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Cream is most certainly "Aged white"

Ah right - from what you say, then, "Aged White and Mint" is what's on my f/red Strat. Doesn't look anything like as nice as on yours. The aged white is VERY cream! Perhaps it just suits your body finish better. I'll probably buy a set of parchment plastics (cheap enough) and see what they look like on the mint guard.

Ta for the info, John! Cheers - Peter.


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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:39 am
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Mir Sims, exceptionally sweet strat! Can you tell me what wood that is? Ha no wait, I just realized, it's a slam dunk swirl, tricky.

Yes I agree, parchment is disturbingly near white.
Then the zoo of aged white pickup covers I have, some near orange, or beige, or yellow.
Here's a reference for aged white, from Fender, could try dunking the white covers in coffee or tea for a bit.
http://intl.fender.com/en-AU/guitar-bass-parts/pickups-and-preamps/fender-hot-noiseless-strat-pickups-set-of-3/

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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 4:01 am
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Cream is most certainly "Aged white"

Ah right - from what you say, then, "Aged White and Mint" is what's on my f/red Strat. Doesn't look anything like as nice as on yours. The aged white is VERY cream! Perhaps it just suits your body finish better. I'll probably buy a set of parchment plastics (cheap enough) and see what they look like on the mint guard.

Ta for the info, John! Cheers - Peter.


Mint does have a distinct green look to it and perhaps more so than the image above would suggest.

It would seem Aged White Plastics with Parchment is much the norm now being standard on the American Standard.

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I'm not sure I'm really feeling it myself as the combination seems neither one thing nor the other.

Such a shame they don't do an aged white pickguard as the parchment isn't "off white" enough not to look white white in most cases. Aged white would be spot on for CW.

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