Red_Label
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In light of the "getting rid of the pickguard" thread...
I thought I'd post the final results my quick and easy project to ADD a PG to my new PRS SE Tremonti. I used an old Epiphone LP pickguard that I had in my parts bin. The spacing between the pickup rings leaves a little gap. So ideally I'll eventually find another PG that fits more snugly there. But it's just a cosmetic concern and I'm very happy with the results of this. I like the look, and more importantly... I've grown used to having a PG under my right hand finger tips, between my strats and LP RO that's got a PG on it. So it was bugging me that my finger tips had to extent further down to feel the top of the body. Plus... I wanted to protect the finish on such a sweet top.
Anyways... I cut-out two small rectangles from one of those sheets of clear plastic that you put on your tablet to protect the screen. I then put a few drops of Gorilla gel glue on the bottom corners of each piece and glued them to the pickup ring cutouts on the pick guard. I loosened the bottom screws of the pickup rings and slid the protruding parts of the rectangles under the rings, tightened the rings back to snug, and voila... a pickguard that doesn't require me to drill holes in the guitar. I may eventually get a sheet of thick crème-colored plastic and cut-out a PG that fits exactly and is shaped exactly how I want it to be. I did have to cut-off and sand the part of the PG up ahead of the front pickup ring.
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I thought I'd post the final results my quick and easy project to ADD a PG to my new PRS SE Tremonti. I used an old Epiphone LP pickguard that I had in my parts bin. The spacing between the pickup rings leaves a little gap. So ideally I'll eventually find another PG that fits more snugly there. But it's just a cosmetic concern and I'm very happy with the results of this. I like the look, and more importantly... I've grown used to having a PG under my right hand finger tips, between my strats and LP RO that's got a PG on it. So it was bugging me that my finger tips had to extent further down to feel the top of the body. Plus... I wanted to protect the finish on such a sweet top.
Anyways... I cut-out two small rectangles from one of those sheets of clear plastic that you put on your tablet to protect the screen. I then put a few drops of Gorilla gel glue on the bottom corners of each piece and glued them to the pickup ring cutouts on the pick guard. I loosened the bottom screws of the pickup rings and slid the protruding parts of the rectangles under the rings, tightened the rings back to snug, and voila... a pickguard that doesn't require me to drill holes in the guitar. I may eventually get a sheet of thick crème-colored plastic and cut-out a PG that fits exactly and is shaped exactly how I want it to be. I did have to cut-off and sand the part of the PG up ahead of the front pickup ring.
