I always admired David Gilmour's black strat, so I have recrently finished my "Blackie" partscaster:



But I realised that David's guitar has a single ply black pickguard, though mine has a 3-ply (black-white-black layers).

Also David's plastic parts have aged through the years, while mine are white like snow.

So the questions are these:

Q1) Do you think think that a 1-ply pickguard is looking better on o Blackie guitar like that?

Take a look at this, for example:



Do you think that it looks better or worse?

Q2) Do you think that I sould age the white plastic parts (or buy aged ones) or should I leave them age through the years??