Lipstick pups +new pickguard on Cyclone

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Pickguard color for CAR Cyclone w/2 black lipsticks?

Pearloid/W/B/W
4
16%
W/B/W
6
24%
Mint/B/Mint
12
48%
Tortoise/M/B/M
2
8%
B/W/B
1
4%
B/W/B/W/B
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daftsupernova wrote:
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PS. Nice come back!
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I was playing around in Paint with my tracing of the pickguard, and made it look a bit more Mustang-like. Plus, I fixed the bridge pickup angle to be perfectly parallel to the neck pickup. I wasn't for it at first, but now I think the Mustang curve looks pretty cool.

Here's how it looks, compared to how it would look with the original shape:

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Yeah, I prefer the mustang curve at the top.
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Post by George »

bronco curve

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