Because it's such an unusual colour, it's really hard to decide what neck, scratchplate and hardware would suit it.
Yeah - that's what I meant by the 'almost right up my street' comment. I think it would look best with an all maple neck with a cream scratch plate and pickup covers. Perhaps a black uncovered HB.
I think that's what I would go for. I'm a bit of a luddite though!
That's
quite close to how I was thinking - it was going to be a bit like the Robin Trower signature Strat, with a big-headstock maple neck and white pearl scratchplate with (white) VHII and Irish Tours. But when I tried that, I thought it looked a bit "anaemic" somehow.
So then I was trying weird things like purple and lilac scratchplates, but they didn't work (at all!). Tortoise doesn't work either, looks weird with the body colour.
Now I've gone all traditional and I've come round to a rosewood-board neck, early '60s style, vintage hardware and (again) a white pearl scratchplate, with black pickups and parts.... but I'm also considering a black scratchplate, '70s style (about the only look I
haven't tried!)
God knows what I'll end up with! :lol:
(Apologies for the thread hijack! :oops: )