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Sherwood Green - pickguard options

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Thanks guys. Ordered this morning. The other bonus about a single pickup guitar? Yesterday when we were playing with this guitar, he kept pulling the knob off the selector switch. 
 
Nice Trevor. But your photo makes me wonder if i indeed do actually have some degree of color blindness, cause that looks very similar to my steel gray blue with a drop of green in a gallon bucket of paint.
 
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Dang. I was joking, but it turns out I am. I'm 44 years old and I never realized it. I mean, I look at a rainbow or spectrum and can see each of the colors vibrantly. But I have often thought people were crazy about calling Hi-Viz Yellow "Green" sometimes. I can see bright yellow, bright blue, bright green, and they're quite vibrant. But there ain't no steenkin 7 in that image I just posted. There MIGHT could be a question mark. Or someone might be playing a joke and putting up fake color blindness charts. (I did pull the image up in gimp and do an RGB decomposition and I still don't see it. )


I think I'll just start calling it "Sherwood Blue"
 
I CAN see purple dots. If I stare at it long enough, I think I can make out pieces of the 7. Mostly in the diagonal. It's certainly not obvious though. As I said - I can clearly see bright yellow, green, or blue. But it appears that I do have trouble distinguishing blue-yellow-green colors. Oh well, I guess the guitar I've been playing for 20 years isn't the color I thought it was. 

Next they're gonna tell me  Mt Dew is green and not yellow.
 
Different monitor i CAN see the 7,but I have to hunt down the dots. it certainly doesnt pop like the RG tests do.
 
As for the Mt Dew.... the question is not whether you can see the other colors, but WTH would you ruin the world's best and most addictive soda like that?
 
Thank to the magic of internet being not just for nerds anymore... i just found out  some of my cousins kids have this tritanomaly, or s-cone mutation/deficiency too. It's much more rare than red-green color blindness, but generally doesnt impact people ... to the point that like me, they often have no idea.

Something else which popped up while looking into this: The classic plates used for testing color blindness.. there are plates which normal people can see, that color deficient people cant, but there are also plates which color deficient people can see but people with normal vision can't. Even cooler is that there are plates which can render one image to a normal vision person and a different image to a color deficient person.

Think about it... mischievious signs... Or hidden messages. I'm curious enough that I now want to figure out how to generate something only other s-cone deficient folks can see.
 
Tada!
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Still futzing with electronics (in 15 minute increments - I absolutely love the toddler phase but it's rough of project time)  - going to be tweaking the volume pot and  treble bypass until I get it precisely right for cleaning up.  Not sure if I'll drill the 2nd hole for the tone pot or not. It looks odd without it. I might should put it on there anyway, cause it's a Mephis and I'm slinging stainless steel strings. Not my first choice of volume location either, but I'll give it a try.
 
Yeah, didn't it? Again - I'd have never really thought of this combo by myself, cause I thought the white looked dorky.  I seem to recall after looking at some of those pictures that I may have bought it with a white pickguard and black strat knobs. Saw some with tortie on white. Neither one really did much for me. The white PEARL though, really snaps.
 
Holy cow... the soldering iron of progress moves slowly. I fried a pot. Replaced it with a 1Meg cause I was out of 500k's. Wired the tone control up backerds despite triple checking it. It's ok, because paralleling on hand caps and intentionally trying to get 0 to be something higher than "Almost DC", it's barely noticeable. But...

yeah, this is the ticket. Early 80's high gain (which is not very) it's similar to what I liked about using the EMG SA with the SPC, only no battery. I still have some setup stuff to do (missing a saddle height screw on this ESP hardtail bridge - but it's the same as the VS100 screws). And I have to fix the tone control right, or put something useful in there. But I'm liking it. If you're looking for a bright medium gain character pickup, certain give the GFS Memphis a listen.

Who knows how long it'll be before I get another uninterrupted hour or two to do dangerous or noisy stuff. Honestly, stacking blocks and wrestling and reading "Biscuit goes to the Park" 47 times in a row is more fun. But I do still enjoy projects. I'm afraid the tone pot is gonna be that way a year from now though.
 
Funny, if anyone else thought I was crazy, on my current phone those pics which still load are way more green than my guitar. No wonder it's hard to describe.

Anyway, the Stratitis thread got me missing my singles. I still like the Memphis, but I have it in my warmoth too. My memory is horrible but I seem to recall this guitar had a black pickguard with white singles when I bought it. Sounds weird but examples are not uncommon. It appears to be one of the less common standard pairings for Sherwood green.

Maybe neovin neck and middle and keep the Memphis?
 
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