Help me choose a pickguard please, forum.

[hillerheilman]

Hey forum.

I need some help deciding on a pickguard, if you would all be so kind.

Here’s the body:

And the neck:

The pickups are nickel covered humbuckers with black rings around them, the bridge is a Toronado and it’ll have mustang selector switches.

My initial instinct was white pearl, but I think that might just make the stripes look white as well. I thought about vintage pearl to make the color in the stripes pop, but I’m worried it’ll be too yellow and throw the whole thing off. Also considering mint, but I’m entirely unsure how that’d look.

Appreciate any input, y’all.
Thanks.

 

[ragamuffin]

Cool paint job! Mint gets my vote.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

I love that! A few years ago I built a Mustang that was Lake Placid Blue with a Daphne Blue stripe. I started out with a white pearl pickguard, but it was TOO white. I put vintage pearl on and that was the ticket.

Digging in to old pictures here, but here she is with white:

And vintage:

Here is the thread from mine if you are interested:
https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=25643.0

I hope you'll post more on this, I'd love to see it come together!

 

[rauchman]

Going with one of the pearloid whites, for me it would be white pearloid.

 

[hillerheilman]

Alright forum.

I placed the order today, and I went with white pearloid. The deciding factor was that the fretboard inlays are also white, so the pickguard will match and hopefully age consistently with the inlays.

 

[BroccoliRob]

YO that body is straight #FIRE!! gr8 work, m8. i woulda gone pure white picking guard and then put a graphic on it, like a tortoise in space or a hamburger underwater or a astronaut in a desert or a llama in a turtleneck

 

[hillerheilman]

YO that body is straight #FIRE!! gr8 work, m8. i woulda gone pure white picking guard and then put a graphic on it, like a tortoise in space or a hamburger underwater or a astronaut in a desert or a llama in a turtleneck

I didn’t do it myself. I just picked the colors and paid a friend of mine to do it with his spray setup. But thank you.

I’ll be sure to post assembled pictures once it all comes together.
Thanks everyone.  :headbang:

 

[hillerheilman]

So aside from the electronics not quite being how I wanted them yet, it’s complete. I think it looks rad.