Tortoise pickguard on Candy Apple Red?

[bluescube]

Wondering if Tortoise color pickguard would look good on Candy Apple Red body? I know white and MOP pickguards always go with CAR, but does Tortoise?

 

[rattus77]

NO Go for Mint green or Cream

 

[reverb_addict]

I think it would be cool but only if it's a redder tortoise shell rather than a darker more brownish tortoise shell.

 

[stratocrabster]

NO Go for Mint green or Cream

agreed--mint green if it's a rosewood board, cream if maple

 

[scantron81]

YES:

 

[13ontheB]

Black looks Waaaaaaay better.

 

[bluescube]

I have on hand a tortoise, black humbucker and white that is already mounted. Was going to put tortoise on the car telecaster with the pickup on it and the black humbucker one on the natural ash telecaster.

 

[Ed Miller]

Mine is crimson red metallic with tortise shell. I think it's perfect.

 

[caliban335]

Tort on CAR looks great.

 

[bluescube]

Gonna get a couple sets of new strings, break out the tools and swap pickguards and pickups around. Gonna put the Tex-Mex's and Tort pickguard on my CAR Fender/Squier partscaster (#1) and put the black pickguard with a humbucker on the FSR ash tele.

 

[Dan German]

Good move. I like black on CAR, but it looks even better on ash. Next best thing on CAR is tort, so there you go. (For the record, I have never liked mint green, cream, or white on red. JOMHO.)

 

[TimTam]

I think it works surprisingly well. But CAR is often a bit darker than we think, and tortoise shell comes in quite a few variants. I have a darkish CAR (no where near as bright as the one above). It has a fat tele GFS tortoise shell pickguard on it, which is quite brown.
The brown and deepish red work surprisingly well together, along with the rosewood neck. It looks unusual and rather classy. But very different to the one above.

 

[tehanallang]

Torty + Fiesta red = ACE.

 

[jackal]

terrapinislands makes a red tortoise shell pickguard that would look great with red.

 

[KenH]

Not a tele and more satin finish but you can see the contrast.

 

[dada]

White, black or mint green for me. I took my tort off my Nashville and replaced it with white, looks pimped now.

 

[Dan German]

Needless to say, this thread will not be complete until we have pics of both guitars, bluescube!

 

[jwj4856]

I think thye look pretty dang good.

 

[Twangasaurus]

As long as it's brown instead of red tortoise shell. I also think it looks better on a non-metallic paint like feista red.
Sorry jwj4856 but that isn't at all to my tastes.

 

[telex76]

As someone else mentioned, some tortoiseshell have a little more red to them than others, thats the kind I'd use.