White Pearl or Tortoise pick guard?

[groove_druid]

Tort!

 

[dStar]

Pearl

 

[bh2]

100% white pearl... or white... or mint.

100% NOT tort... it will look horrid on that blue...
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[SturmUndDrang]

I bet vintage style red/orange celluloid tort would look good.

 

[M.R. Ogle]

I'm normally a tort-lover, but not on that bass with the blue.

Besides, didn;t some vintage Mustangs COME with white pearl? Or am I not remembering correctly, Fender vintage experts?

White pearl on a P or a Jazz screams "aftermarket cheapie" to me, but I think that's partly because I don't know of any vintage of P or J thast came from the factory that way.

 

[ggvicviper]

Depends on the shade. The OP's color of blue needs white pearl, but this shade of blue looks nice with tort IMO.

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Is that even blue? Looks like surf green to me or something. I always get that & seafoam green mixed up.

Regardless, I'm not a big fan of how that looks either. There are some very specific colors that I feel tort looks good with - mainly lighter reds, 3-tone sunburst, burgundy mist metallic (I've said much about the raspberry smoothie P) and whites. Everything else seems to get better with white or black - except sonic blue, which I think goes well with mint.

 

[bh2]

White pearl on a P or a Jazz screams "aftermarket cheapie" to me, but I think that's partly because I don't know of any vintage of P or J thast came from the factory that way.

My factory finished P Bass...

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Ah... not vintage... only 2002...soz.

 

[georgiagoodie]

White pearloid. 'Looks great on everything.

 

[sowilson]

I think with that particular blue I would go with the white pearloid.