G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

[UberMetalDood]

I've never paid more than $25 for a Fender pickguard, even for pearloid colors. Check out the hack job I did on my beautiful G&L Legacy SSS. I used a box cutter to hack the humbucker square and drilled the holes with a Swiss Army knife drill thing. I figured I would just go online and get a new pickguard and enjoy my new pickups for the mean time, but I got online and they are expensive. If you can't find an HH or HSS, you have to have it made and they generally run around $50 for a 3-ply plain color. I bit the bullet and ordered one though. I just couldn't wait to put the new pickups in man, you know how it goes

Well it's the pickups that counts. Here's a D-Sonic and Chopper. Great clean sounds with both pickups, the D-Sonic is much more useful than for metal. I've been getting some great Satch tones out of it. The Chopper, of course, is phenomenal.

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[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

Is that from G&L?

 

[jasperx01]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

Got this G&L Legacy back last year,always wanted a white pearl pickguard on it but it cost $65......

Gave it up finally







Got these knobs for it fo only $25...it's some kind of "river stone" on rosewood

 

[GilmourD]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

Have you tried here?

http://pickguards.us/pricegandl.html

 

[GilmourD]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

Also, outside of the bridge route, how to regular Strat pickguards line up with everything else?

 

[UberMetalDood]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

Got this G&L Legacy back last year,always wanted a white pearl pickguard on it but it cost $65......

Gave it up finally







Got these knobs for it fo only $25...it's some kind of "river stone" on rosewood

Wow! That's a sick guitar. G&L's are sooooo underrated.

Have you tried here?

http://pickguards.us/pricegandl.html

Yep

Also, outside of the bridge route, how to regular Strat pickguards line up with everything else?

Not sure but I lined up one of my strat pickguards with my G&L pickguard and in order for the pickup holes to match up straight, the pickguards differed substantially in angle. One was pointed straight across and the other was a bit diagonal. There is also, apparently, a significant difference between G&L USA and G&L Tribute pickguards.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

Chander Guitars (AKA Pickguard Heaven) produce G&L's pickguards for them. They are the best source, by far. See the very bottom of this Webpage: http://www.glguitars.com/support/index2.asp.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

Yeah,I was shopping for Cr/Blk/Cr for my Epi Explorer,about $40 as well...

 

[Demina]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

Got this G&L Legacy back last year,always wanted a white pearl pickguard on it but it cost $65......

Gave it up finally

I think for that guitar I'd spend the $65! That'd look seriously sweet with white pearl. Plenty sweet as it is!

 

[jasperx01]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

sold it finally cos i found that im not a single coil guy at all.....

 

[p4vl]

Re: G&L Guitars Are Awesome... BUT THE PICKGUARDS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!

$25 for a mirror pickguard for my RG2550:

http://www.ebay.com/usr/perleguitars001

Now I don't have to deal with a stupid hole where the middle single used to be. I might actually get get a HxH pickguard for any future HSH Ibanez RG's, even if they don't have pickguards.