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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:28 pm
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I have a midnight wine strat with a white pickguard. Looking for suggestions on a new pickguard color. I have seen a black engine tuned pickguard and a what looks like a more red tortoise shell than brown. Both were online. Is there a tortoise shell that is more red than brow?


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Take a look at the colors at www.pickguard.com

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:19 pm
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dkals wrote:
I have a midnight wine strat with a white pickguard. Looking for suggestions on a new pickguard color.


I've got a midnight wine Tele, and I swapped out the stock white one for a Black Pearl one, and it looks really money!


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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:54 pm
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sixandeightstringer,

Thanks for the reply. Is it possible to post a pic? If not what color are your pickups and knobs?

I figured if I went dark I was going to switch the pickups anyway go with some 69's in the neck & mid and a different humbucker. All pickups would go to black and the knobs would go to gibson black or chrome knobs.

An all black pickguard reminded me to much of an S&G look, although I think it would make the midnight wine look lighter.


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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:07 am
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dkals wrote:
sixandeightstringer,

Thanks for the reply. Is it possible to post a pic? If not what color are your pickups and knobs?


It's tough to see, but it's in this photo:
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It looks more silver-ish than black, and looks better head-on. That's probably the only photo I have on the web, though...

Also shown there is my Franken-strat (Mexi neck, Squier Body, Carvin loaded pickguard, Fishman powerbridge, Bartolini preamp) and my modified Toronado (Kent Armstrong Pickups, "Jimmy Page" coil-tapping mods). The Tele also has the Series/Parallel switch mod. (I'm a tinkerer.)

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:00 am
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I think Black with white outline with black knobs just does it for me, its what im lookg for atm!


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Just a quick comment on the pickguard situation. I've got a brown sunburst fade on my strat & was looking for a tortoise shell pickguard that I felt was top-grade. I found 4 different choices for tortoise shell on www.terrapinguitars.com. I asked them to send me samples because I wasn't sure which one I wanted & they were much obliged. You might want to check them out; they can make pretty much any custom pickguard you want. :)


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Thanks for the picture and the help guys.


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