I caught sh*t a while back from some because I put a red mother-of-toilet-seat pickguard on a black jazz bass.
I happen to love red pearloid (mother-of-toilet-seat) on black guitars!
But that's probably because I'm not a big fan of solid black guitars

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However, that strat eventually ended up like this:

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It was my "Super Strat"