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What colour pickups would go best?

Chrome
5 (38.5%)
White
8 (61.5%)

Total Members Voted: 12

Voting closed: July 01, 2006, 09:51:56 PM

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« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2006, 11:37:01 PM »
nix thu black pg. I think it would look awesome with chrome p/u's tho. Vintage and different.
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« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2006, 11:37:20 PM »
Yeah, I was thinking they should go chrome also - keep the uniform idea going...but I couldn't make them look chrome with my photoshop :P
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« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2006, 12:17:13 AM »
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I think you know deep down that chrome is gonna look really poor.


Lolol...unfortunately A+

I reckon black pickguard with white knobs and covers would be cool...something like Gilmours' strat.

Geg0ey's idea looks cool though...Go for it! 8)
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« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2006, 01:35:02 AM »
:D There`s deffinatley an age gap issue here IMHO

To be honest chrome would look utter cr@p even with a black Pickguard. BUT if your gonna think about changing the Pickguard then why not look at something like these

http://pickguards.com/

Then you could get some BK`s with chrome finish`s

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« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2006, 02:39:12 AM »
The black guard looks really nasty in my opinion.  I think the chrome pickups would only look good on a white pickguard.
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« Reply #20 on: July 02, 2006, 09:37:30 AM »
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BUT if your gonna think about changing the Pickguard then why not look at something like these


Already PM'd Jon over at Feline about getting a Mirror Acrylic Pickguard - whaddya think to that? It'll cost me like £35 so I'm a bit reluctant as to how it will look...
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« Reply #21 on: July 02, 2006, 01:59:47 PM »
I used to have a mirror acrylic on a daphne blue strat in the 80's, but I had black covers on the single coils and a humbucker with double black coils in the bridge.  If I was going to do it again now, I might do all white coils with it.
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« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2006, 02:04:54 PM »
Hmmm, Mirror Acrylic with white p/ups and knobs etc might look cool...but for some reason I'm still tempted by the chrome - It'll take some more thought methinks

Phil: How did the mirror guard look after you'd played it for a while - did it look horrible when it got scratched?
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« Reply #23 on: July 02, 2006, 02:15:15 PM »
I am pretty light on scratching, I use medium picks and tend to keep my hand on the bridge quite a bit (comes from playing LP's for years!).  I remember it was a buggar to stop fingerprints though.  I'm not sure what happened to it to tell you the truth, I changed to all black with the guitar, I had it resprayed (the blue had been hand painted), and put an EMG H/S/S set on it.  I still have that and it looks mean!
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« Reply #24 on: July 02, 2006, 02:24:09 PM »
I think I'm gonna get the chrome...and if I don't like it then I can go back to white :) otherwise I'll always be wondering what it would look like if i got the chrome
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