What colour scratchplate to go with this?

fretmeister

Pearl white or tort - but some torts are more torty than others!

fnpt

Cream pearl ftw

DannyP

DeeTee said:

Congrats then! Not sure about pearl with a figured body where you can see the grain. Might be a bit much?

I agree with this - it might be too many textures to use pearl or even tort.

At risk of being boring, I think black or white would go best. Maybe 3ply black

GuitarMonkey

TimmyO said:

As of this morning I'm thinking white or off-white...

I'd have to agree. 

EricTheWeary

I have often fancied a red guitar with a Mexican flag scratchplate. I was reminded of this in Guitarist when they had a picture of one in the Cabronita article on the side bar about WDMusic (IIRC). This kind of thing :

 

Mosfed

I would go with the Fender mint-green - which is basically what an old white guard ages into.

Nice body.

bertie

off white pearl

Bucket

Black.

Or mint green.

Dave_Mc

octatonic said:

Wouldn't normally say this but I'd probably do this:

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u3/HVA58/08.jpg

+1

On certain guitars, pearloid looks great.

TimmyO

See now I'm thinking pearloid, and matching tuner buttons

GuitarMonkey

TimmyO said:

See now I'm thinking pearloid,

Do you play a lot of C&W?

guitargeek62

DrBob said:

I'd go single ply black and ideally a matte finish.

Yup.

Megii

Not keen on the tortoise idea myself, given the red-ish body finish. I think black would look a bit intense against red also. So I guess I'd say a nice white 3-ply could look classy, with chrome or nickel hardware. Maybe a white pearloid could work also, as long as it didn't seem too busy added to the visible wood grain of the body.

Gru

Assuming you could get one, a Matt graphite grey. I do agree that I f you could have a clear one it would look fantastic.

Gizmo

Id go white crystal



or whitefleck tort if im feeling C&W

usedtobe

Cream or pearly white!

marantz1300

cream or mint.

stickyfiddle

Pearl will look hideous against the wood grain (not that is doesn't look hideous against solid colours too..) That tort mockup above looks grand

ICBM

This is interesting! So much contrasting personal taste.

I think any of the darker colour options would either look hideous or like a tart's handbag, but plain bright white (probably single ply) or a second choice of white (not cream) pearl would look great. Cream pearl would be back into tart-o-caster territory.

And it *must* have chrome hardware, or a distant second, nickel. Gold would look vile.

But it's not mine...

TimmyO

I did actually look up clear - I'd be ok with that (even with the route), also white is on the list, and white pearl on the list, with cream a possibility but less likely.

I really don't care for the Tort-on-red look (ta for the mockups btw) 

and yes hardware will be chrome - gold's not really my bag, against any finish