Foggy request...

[candid_x]

Foggy,

This is a rare bird I'd like to see. Blue pearl Sil Special, with abalone pg and white knobs and p'ups?

Thanks!

Bruce

 

[candid_x]

Also, is there a way to change humbucker color without replacing the entire p'up?

 

[candid_x]

Anyone ever seen this color combination? Or can answer the humbucker question?

My son would like to buy an abalone pickguard for Christmas, but I'm not sure how it would look with white appointments.

 

[robelinda2]

if you mean changing the humbucker cover to a different colour then sure thats easy, aint it?

 

[candid_x]

if you mean changing the humbucker cover to a different colour then sure thats easy, aint it?

I dunno, that's why I'm asking. Don't know if the color is a cap or an actual part of the pup.

I've seen blue/abalone/black but never with white pups and knobs. I mentioned to my kid awhile ago that I was thinking of changing my pg to abalone and today he asked if he could get it for me.

 

[Pablo]

Also, is there a way to change humbucker color without replacing the entire p'up?

Absolutely! You simply unwind the pickup, exchange the bobbin and rewind it - you'd recycle both wire, polepieces and magnets... not to mention wasting a lot of time messing up a perfectly good pickup.

Seriously though, you can get bobbin toppers (glorified stickers) to change the apearance, but IMHO they look terrible. If you want a different colour, I think the best option simply is to change the PUs and either save the originals for a rainy day or unload them on unsuspecting ebayers.

Cheers

Eske

 

[candid_x]

Absolutely! You simply unwind the pickup, exchange the bobbin and rewind it - you'd recycle both wire, polepieces and magnets... not to mention wasting a lot of time messing up a perfectly good pickup.

Seriously though, you can get bobbin toppers (glorified stickers) to change the apearance, but IMHO they look terrible. If you want a different colour, I think the best option simply is to change the PUs and either save the originals for a rainy day or unload them on unsuspecting ebayers.

Cheers

Eske

Naw, don't want stickers, and it's not important enough to swap new pickups. Still curious how abalone would match with the white.

Thanks, Eske.

 

[fogman]

Candid,

I don't have any pics of that combination.

It is very ironic that you request that though. About a month ago, there was a used Silo Spec. at the local shop for a steal of a price. I thought about it and passed due to the incoming Dargie.
It was blue pearl, white pearl guard, rosewood neck and natty headstock.
I'm not a huge fan of the white pearloid, and was trying to picture what it would look like with an abalone guard. The white pups is what stopped me thinking about it!

 

[candid_x]

Candid,

I don't have any pics of that combination.

It is very ironic that you request that though. About a month ago, there was a used Silo Spec. at the local shop for a steal of a price. I thought about it and passed due to the incoming Dargie.
It was blue pearl, white pearl guard, rosewood neck and natty headstock.
I'm not a huge fan of the white pearloid, and was trying to picture what it would look like with an abalone guard. The white pups is what stopped me thinking about it!

I know you have a great eye, and you echo my own thinking on it.

Thanks, Foggy. You're awesome, man.

PS: What other, if any, pickguard color do you think would match well with the same combination?

 

[fogman]

I know you have a great eye, and you echo my own thinking on it.

Thanks, Foggy. You're awesome, man.

Thanks, and you're very welcome!

 

[candid_x]

Playing around with the instrument builder, I don't see anything stock which would match with white. R'oh well.

 

[fogman]

Personally, with white pups I would do either solid white, white ice, white pearl, or solid black.
However, tort might be really cool!!!!
It the body of the guitar was not blue pearl, then that would be an entirely different ballgame.

 

[candid_x]

I actually thought of solid black. I dunno, might look like a saddle shoe.

White ice is thought.

 

[fogman]

Here's some bad photoshopping with the tort!!!
I think it's kinda cool!

 

[candid_x]

Here's some bad photoshopping with the tort!!!
I think it's kinda cool!

Interesting... kinda like it. Am just not a white pearly kinda guy, this looks more yang.

Thanks again, Foggy. Really appreciate your help.

 

[robelinda2]

yeah that looks great foggy, white with tort is cool.

 

[candid_x]

Think so, Rob?
Does personalize it, dun'nit.
Still undecided, but leaning toward it. 'Course I'll post pics if I do, for Foggy's ever expanding collection.

 

[fogman]

'Course I'll post pics if I do, for Foggy's ever expanding collection.

That's mandatory of course!!!

 

[lock-ny]

I have a blue pearl silo special with a black pearloid guard and I think it looks awesome, it really matches the blue nicely, foggy has a pic of me rocking cbgb's with it, I know you alredy have a black pearloid guard on your other silo, maybe change both, I had MM send me black pup covers as well and black screws for the guard and trem cover, abalone looks too muck like a bowling ball to me, black pearloid is mean looking, mone has a natty head stock as well, love it!

 

[candid_x]

I have a blue pearl silo special with a black pearloid guard and I think it looks awesome, it really matches the blue nicely, foggy has a pic of me rocking cbgb's with it, I know you alredy have a black pearloid guard on your other silo, maybe change both, I had MM send me black pup covers as well and black screws for the guard and trem cover, abalone looks too muck like a bowling ball to me, black pearloid is mean looking, mone has a natty head stock as well, love it!

chuckling at bowling ball...

I'm guessing yours is a SSS? Single pups are no problem, but to go all black on blue I'd have to buy a new bridge bucker. That's obsessive even for me . It already bugs me, just slightly, that the bucker white is whiter than the single pups are, but so far I haven't lost sleep over it.

I'm actually kinda liking Foggy's shell idea, and leaving the appointments white.

Interesting idea also, to switch out the entire pickguard assembly with my other silo, but I hate to mess with that one. Though it'd be a snap to try a quick switcheroo.

Thanks for your input.