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Colour?

All White
10
34%
All Black
1
3%
Zebra
4
14%
Nickel Cover
14
48%
 
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Going to put a humbucker in the bridge of my Oly white road worn strat, would you go with a worn nickel cover, all white bobbins, or a zebra setup (seems more traditional), or what?
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all white is my favourite :)
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In order of preference (assuming SC's are white covers): White, Zebra, Black.

Nickel covers on a HSS just don't look right to me.....
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Paging Starfire.... :lol:

White all the way. Murky is right; I have a shiny hb in the bridge of my strat. Love the pickup, but not so much aesthetics.
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I've never quite got on with the look of HSS strats, which is why I've never had one despite them being so good as all-rounders. All white seems like it would fit best with an Olympic white strat with a maple neck, but maybe Zebra if it's got a Rosewood fingerboard.
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jeremyb wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 5:54 pm Going to put a humbucker in the bridge of my Oly white road worn strat, would you go with a worn nickel cover, all white bobbins, or a zebra setup (seems more traditional), or what?
Why not just put a hot/warm/cool rails in?
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Bg wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:20 pm
jeremyb wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 5:54 pm Going to put a humbucker in the bridge of my Oly white road worn strat, would you go with a worn nickel cover, all white bobbins, or a zebra setup (seems more traditional), or what?
Why not just put a hot/warm/cool rails in?
Wash your mouth out! Plus Glyn doesn’t make one :lol:
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murky wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:00 pm

Nickel covers on a HSS just don't look right to me.....
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I'm not normally a zebra kind of guy but...
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I wonder about the zebra thing, cause original PAFs sometimes were zebra under the covers and some strats in the 60s might have got one of those in them... who knows...
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Now with poll!
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jeremyb wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:23 pm I wonder about the zebra thing, cause original PAFs sometimes were zebra under the covers and some strats in the 60s might have got one of those in them... who knows...
The real JB has a Blackguard with a PAF neck. Probably my desert island guitar.
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I guess I'm the lone voice for nickel cover...
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robthemac wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:42 pm
jeremyb wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:23 pm I wonder about the zebra thing, cause original PAFs sometimes were zebra under the covers and some strats in the 60s might have got one of those in them... who knows...
The real JB has a Blackguard with a PAF neck. Probably my desert island guitar.
Oh man but the best part of a Strat is the neck pickup!!
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