When did SD discontinue Parchment humbuckers?

[STLMTLHD79]

I did a humbucker swap on my 2001 Fender Big Apple strat from the Pearly Gates + (which i do like) to a 59/custom hybrid. The Hybrid is white, but i didnt realize that the Pearly Gates+ and 59RWRP were in parchment.... Kind of looks odd.

 

[beaubrummels]

I thought the default for Zebra was black/'creme'? I thought black/white was a shop floor customization?

https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/seymour-duncan-shop-floor-custom-options

 

[Mincer]

It isn't listed on the Shop Floor Custom page...but I am not sure it ever was. Maybe it was just a thing for Fender?

 

[hamerfan]

Yes, they were OEMs for Fender. It was for the Big Apple Strat and the PG also for the Lone Star Strat. I have also seen Fender Aftermarket sets, but i remember them only in Black.
For the OP question: Both guitars were discontinued in 2000, so probably the Aftermarket sets too.

 

[superpete]

duncan definitely offered it at one point. i thought they looked better than the dimarzio double cream tbh.

https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/parchment-colored-bobbins-now-available

 

[jeremy]

i remember parchment being an option for at least some buckers, but that option seems gone now. curious...

 

[Chistopher]

Maybe laying low during the Gibson/DMZ lawsuit?

 

[nienturi]

That's too bad because i always was impressed with their color. I remember good ole Lonestar Strats. They looked so beautiful to me in those days with parchment Duncans on

 

[Mincer]

I actually like the parchment color better than cream.

 

[nienturi]

I actually like the parchment color better than cream.

Depending on the color of the guitar, yeah, i sometimes do, too.

 

[jeremy]

i feel the same. sometimes parchment suits a guitar better, but i still like cream for some things

 

[nienturi]

i feel the same. sometimes parchment suits a guitar better, but i still like cream for some things

Double cream, parchment and bone are perfect shades for humbuckers

 

[Mincer]

See, I never 'got' cream...it never looked right to me.

 

[Chistopher]

Cream only looks good on a Super Distortion shoved into the bridge of a Les Paul without regard to any of the other colors present on the instrument

 

[beaubrummels]

For me, as long as it matches the other plastics on the guitar, fine. Doesn't have to be creme, needs to be whatever matches, so it looks like it aged together.