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Best colour for a strat with a rosewood fretboard?

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I'm thinking of painting my Jap strat this summer with spray cans - It currently has a natural finish (alder body and rosewood fingerboard with a brown-ish pickguard).

What do you think is the best colour combination (body colour as well as pickguard/pickups/knobs etc) for a rosewood fretboard strat?

At the moment I am leaning towards either an aged white (the original colour) with a mint green pickguard, or possibly shell pink with the same. Sonic blue maybe? Definitely thinking of the vintage look for this one so I plan on aging the fretboard markers to be more amber looking.

On that note, if anyone has a subtle mint green pickguard like the one in the picture below, please let me know!

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denche blue?

Definitely olympic white. or candy apple red
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Denche blu........... sorry, too late.
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The faded Shell Pink in your first pic looks great.
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Non Denche blue. Either sonic or lake placid.
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Conway wrote:Non Denche blue. Either sonic or lake placid.
What was the blue you did your Jag in?
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Molly wrote:
Conway wrote:Non Denche blue. Either sonic or lake placid.
What was the blue you did your Jag in?
Mystic blue. :thumbup:
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You know what? Classic black on a strat has been looked over for a long time. The 50's ones are a bit of a give in but 60's, rosewood board, laminate pickguard, white undercoat peaking out of a subtley reliced finish, classy as.
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kdawg2a wrote:You know what? Classic black on a strat has been looked over for a long time. The 50's ones are a bit of a give in but 60's, rosewood board, laminate pickguard, white undercoat peaking out of a subtley reliced finish, classy as.
I actually really like that look. But I already have a black guitar. :D
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kdawg2a wrote:You know what? Classic black on a strat has been looked over for a long time. The 50's ones are a bit of a give in but 60's, rosewood board, laminate pickguard, white undercoat peaking out of a subtley reliced finish, classy as.
Agree so long as the rosewood is dark. :thunbup:
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Molly wrote:The faded Shell Pink in your first pic looks great.
That colour is really in fashion right now with guitars.

I kind of don't want to jump on the band wagon now...
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Olympic White ftw
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Gold flake looks neat. Not very vintage mind you
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I'm a big fan of Fiesta Red that's been faded and reliced. Tres sexy.
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Olympic white gets my vote. Can not remember seeing anything in that colour that looked bad.
Shell pink looks dynamite if done right. If not it just looks bad IMO
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