Best pickguard colour for Sonic Grey?

[Baker69]

My Sonic Grey Fender USA Pro Jazz bass came with a parchment colour pickguard (which I find a bit boring). In addition the bass must have been on display for a while near the store window as when I removed the Fender USA sticker it left a visible mark whereas the rest of the pickguard must have gotten a bit sun bleached?

Sonic Grey is a funny colour to match with a different pickguard, (other than black maybe?). It currently has a red tort pickguard fitted which I had from an earlier MIM Jazz I had owned. The red tort doesn’t seem quite right as the Sonic Grey is almost a light blue in colour.

What colour pickguard would you suggest? I was thinking possibly a black marble?

 

[96tbird]

A pearloid would be my pick. Crisp white, or a grey. Maybe even black, but definately pearloid with that colour. Classy. But that’s just meeeee

 

[Baker69]

A pearloid would be my pick. Crisp white, or a grey. Maybe even black, but definately pearloid with that colour. Classy. But that’s just meeeee

Yes, Pearloid is what I meant not Marble.

I've seen a nice black Pearloid. Not sure about white though as would it be too much like the original (in a way?)

 

[HeavyDuty]

White Pearl, definitely. See this old post:

NBB....Fender Professional Sonic Grey!

 

[Baker69]

White Pearl, definitely. See this old post:

NBB....Fender Professional Sonic Grey!

I think the white pearl does look nice.

Not so sure on the black now.

 

[Parzival]

Black. Like gray/sliver and black combo.

 

[Picton]

Pearloid.

ALWAYS pearloid.

 

[Killing Floor]

 

[dave64o]

First choice: White Pearl
Second choice: Blue Abalone
Third choice: Black Pearl

 

[96tbird]

White Pearl, definitely. See this old post:

NBB....Fender Professional Sonic Grey!

That kind of looks like aged white pearl which I have in my Squier cv p that is sonic blue. I would personally go with the white white pearl on ops grey.

 

[Baker69]

I do like this pickguard but I can’t find out exactly what colour it is and from where?

 

[sissy kathy]

I agree that looks blue to me too.
pastel pink

 

[96tbird]

I do like this pickguard but I can’t find out exactly what colour it is and from where?

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Yeah that’s nice. It may just be black as some of the pearls in black are silver grey and they can reflect what’s in front on bright light. It would take your bass to the dark side nice.

here’s one of mine dark grey tho’ and you can see the silver reflective bits. But that one you showed might be blue
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Turnaround]

I do like this pickguard but I can’t find out exactly what colour it is and from where?

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Now that's a great colour combination!

 

[Turnaround]

Sidebar: I always thought that a bass like this:

would look good with "clown barf" pickguard. In particular, this material:

But I've never found any clown barf this good. If I ever did find some I would buy a new surf green bass to sport it.
(Thanks to Frank Ford for the pic.)

 

[Bassatronic]

This is an old thread I realize, but saw this and thought I'd ad a mint green into the mix.

https://blackdot.com.au/wp-content/...ass-1963-American-Vintage-Sonic-Blue-body.jpg

 

[Phil60]

I put a white pearl on mine ...

 

[5StringBlues]

I really don't care for this sonic gray color, but with this pickguard? It looks fantastic!

I do like this pickguard but I can’t find out exactly what colour it is and from where?

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[HeavyDuty]

I put a white pearl on mine ...

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That looks great! Of course, I’m biased to pearl…

 

[Baker69]

That looks great! Of course, I’m biased to pearl…

I’m getting to like the white pearloid one now thanks. It might be the way to go.