Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

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Re: Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

Post by Surfysonic » Mon Jun 14, 2021 11:20 am

I have two guitars with mismatched colored headstocks. Here's my Fender American '62 Reissue JM neck with a sonic blue headstock and daphne blue Squier CV '60s JM body build (with Fralin Hum-Cancelling Jazzmaster pickups). I was initially hoping it would match but I quite like the slight variation as they still complement each other.

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Here's my NGD today Squier Contemporary Jaguar HH ST with black headstock. Looks killer with the shoreline gold body. Also, loving the roasted maple neck with laurel fretboard.

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Here they are together:

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Re: Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

Post by hexes » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:59 pm

i love the current trend of headstock matching the pickguard. the gold and black jag is super hot. my harvester may end up with that kinda scheme. can’t wait to post photos.

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Re: Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

Post by Nudger » Tue Mar 08, 2022 3:39 am

AVRI 65 BODY
Mint Pickguard
FSR 62 Neck "Daves Guitars"
Knobs off my Robert Cray strat
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Re: Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

Post by Unicorn Warrior » Tue Mar 08, 2022 6:41 am

Nudger wrote:
Tue Mar 08, 2022 3:39 am
AVRI 65 BODY
Mint Pickguard
FSR 62 Neck "Daves Guitars"
Knobs off my Robert Cray strat
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These Dave’s necks are lovely necks. I have one on my parts master, and while my other necks are great as well, I gravitate towards the Dave’s neck the most.

I had my whole guitar refinished by MJT to match it all up

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Re: Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

Post by hexes » Tue Mar 08, 2022 8:58 pm

hexes wrote:
Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:59 pm
i love the current trend of headstock matching the pickguard. the gold and black jag is super hot. my harvester may end up with that kinda scheme. can’t wait to post photos.
forgot about this thread! here you go:
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Re: Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

Post by Francer » Tue Mar 08, 2022 11:46 pm

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Not too sure about this myself tbh, tried it out of curiosity. AV65 body, AVRI62 (refinned headstock) neck.

It’s I guess this technically makes it a partscaster, but to me it will always be my AV65 with a different neck.

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Re: Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

Post by JSett » Tue Mar 08, 2022 11:51 pm

I recently built this from parts:

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I think mis-matching works best when it's echoing another colour on the guitar - normally pickguard
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Re: Anyone ever deliberately mismatch headstock and body colors?

Post by Nudger » Wed Mar 09, 2022 12:24 am

Unicorn Warrior wrote:
Tue Mar 08, 2022 6:41 am
Nudger wrote:
Tue Mar 08, 2022 3:39 am
AVRI 65 BODY
Mint Pickguard
FSR 62 Neck "Daves Guitars"
Knobs off my Robert Cray strat
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These Dave’s necks are lovely necks. I have one on my parts master, and while my other necks are great as well, I gravitate towards the Dave’s neck the most.

I had my whole guitar refinished by MJT to match it all up
Luv to see a pic!
Yup lovely neck and clay dots a nice touch, Got mine from Stratosphere.. They were advertised as 7.5 initially but they rectified their add "after" I pointed this out.
How did you like the rosewood? Stratosphere had a stock photo so couldnt pick a specific neck.. Mine turned up quite light.
Guitar could play better but I put this down to my set up.. Gonna mess with some shims today.

Oh yea.. slipped up with my description, Body is AV 65 not AVRI.

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