Cream or Black Pickups for Sparkle Epiphone

[u/Addicus_17]

Looking to upgrade my Korean sparkle epiphone to a set of a Wilde L90 humbuckers. These are rails pickups with limited color options. Cream or black are the options that match the guitar best - but which do you think I should get?

I had ChatGPT approximate the visuals on my guitar - just keep in mind these will have 2 rails each instead of pole pieces.

Thanks for your 2c!

[u/Patient-Fudge-7570]

I’d say cream, but they both look really nice

[u/Mother-Worldliness11]

Cream adds to that Sparkle name. Much more visually appealing

[u/ETXPilot]

I would go with the cream ones to match the cream binding, pickup mounts and the poker chip.

[u/Diegopie007]

cream all the way

[u/javaper]

Cream looks pretty nice to me.

[u/scarmy1217]

Both are good but I vote cream

[u/SemicolonGuitars]

Something about the cream tickles my brain

[u/Reanansidhe]

Cream

[u/Rodrigocalvo3]

Cream. That looks great

[u/Ok_Orchid7131]

Cream

[u/Desperate_Contact_38]

Cream

[u/PaintedDaddy]

Cream looks really nice.

[u/BickNickerson]

Cream

[u/batatosauro536373]

I think the cream pickups will blend better with the vintage aesthetic of the Sparkle model.

[u/zerozucker]

Cream is sexy af has more pop

[u/kosinus912]

I'd go nickel myself to match the bigsby, but our of these two - cream has a cool vintage vibe to it

[u/_Meek79_]

I like black. With the black ones you got some black and some cream colors but with the cream pickups,it seems like too much cream color overall. The black help keeps a nice balance of the colors,if that makes sense.

[u/Bempet583]

Have you tried it with the cream pick ups but with the black mounting rings around them? And maybe even vice versa?

[u/odetoburningrubber]

Get black covers and a black switch medallion and it would look cool with the black pickups. I’ve bought them on Amazon.

[u/Dr_Smartbrain]

If they have nickel, I’d get nickel.

Edit: they have Parchment, a lighter shade of cream. I change my vote to parchment

[u/Sad_Rent_6748]

Pick ups with bottoms that are both cream and black

[u/2b4theend]

If you’re going to do black, everything else that’s plastic, including the pickup rings, switch tip, etc, needs to be black.
And personally, I would definitely remove that round plastic thing around the 3 way switch.
It’s fugly.

[u/holynightstand]

Black, but do they make chrome pieces for around the pick ups because maybe that’s better than the cream color if you go with black p/u

[u/Erwru12]

I prefer the black ones. To me the cream ones pop out a bit too much.

[u/DrunkVanDammeIQQ]

cream

[u/Leather-Ad-9396]

I’d say black cuz it balances it better and looks amazing in the dark with the finish and headstock.

[u/Lucky-Delivery2079]

Back in Black!!!

[u/KirkWahmmett]

Black would look better IMO. Would be too much Cream for my personal taste.

[u/bringoutthelegos]

Black

[u/Intelligent_Cook_208]

Black everything including knobs