What Would You Do?

Purely vain poll. I'm not digging the Ivory rings on this guitar. Not sure what I should replace them with. Soaking the Ivory ones in coffee for a couple of hours would get me close to body binding, as would Maple rings. Rosewood rings would go with the fretboard and tuner keys. Black would work with the charcoal finish.

What say ye?

 

I voted "leave it," but I think black would look good, too.

 

You know my answer

 

I’d bet on black.

 

Leave it, I’m a fan of ivory rings, I find them very PRS.


..... and then I wouldn’t have to listen to some crap about it not being all original when I traded it in on a Santana.

 

I want to see it back in Black!!!

I wanted a semi-hollow Special and would have bought one in that colour (although I do prefer Fire Red Burst) but couldn't find one in the UK - just Blue or 'Yellow' coloured guitars...

That's a great looking guitar but would certainly look better with Black rings, Maple as a 2nd choice btw

 

Leave it or do the coffee stain method.

 

You just want to sell him an ivory whitener when he wants to shift back.

 

Excuse the bad photoshop skills.

 

Also here is my guitar for comparison

 

Stock ivory on the neck
Coffee stain the middle
Black on the bridge

Morpheus!

 

Definitely prefer the Black....

 

I like the ivory as well , but rosewood would be my second choice. Wouldn’t be bold like black...it would just naturally blend in. Beautiful guitar man. This forum is giving me “the Fever “.

 

CURLY MAPLE ALL THE WAY.

 

The coffee method is always cool, however, I'm not sure how well it would work on PRS parts. I've done it for some F style partscasters parts and the results depend on who's making the parts. I've had to scuff mine up with fine grain sandpaper to get the best results.

 

Quit looking at it and play it...

 

With that finish I'd lean towards keeping the ivory colored rings. If it was darker or a green/blue/violet, I would have gone with black plastics.

 

I think the black looks better, evident on Matt's guitar.

 

Definitely black. I wish they’d use those rings stock more often than they do.

 

Is that black, or is it a very dark rosewood?

Edit: Almost looks like ebony.