Help selecting a pickguard.

[ItsaBass]

Re: Help selecting a pickguard.

Right on!

Probably the first time in my life that anyone has ever agreed with me!

 

[Artie]

Re: Help selecting a pickguard.

So, I was your 1st?

BTW, the Fender pic also doesn't show properly the patina on the neck. It jumped out at me the moment I opened the music store door, from across the store. It's an unbelievable vintage "yellow". Every other maple neck in the place looked white in comparison. I'll try to get a good pic when I get this project done.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Help selecting a pickguard.

Yup. That Squier CV tinted clear is intense.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: Help selecting a pickguard.

So far, these three have potential. Simulated carbon fiber, White and black pearloid.

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That black pearloid is super sexy...

 

[Adieu]

Re: Help selecting a pickguard.

Single-ply white guard, as it has. Instead of swapping the guard, ditch the black pickups for white ones, and also get white knobs, switch tip, and vibrato arm tip.

But even if you keep the black pickups, I'd just put them in the guitar as is.

As an aside, I really wish Duncan would quit using those "butt shaped" covers, and just offer their rails and such with "normal" rounded ends. I just can't do it! They're SO ugly.

Can't you pull the cover or something?

Old vintage hotrail-type pickups had no covers... Then again, they didn't have the pcb-looking weirdness that some modern ones exhibit on the bottom either, so I'm not sure how deep the redesign goes

 

[metalchurch79]

Re: Help selecting a pickguard.

I did a Sherwood green relic strat last summer with a scalloped rosewood board, brass nut and I used a warmoth parchment H/S on it and I think the color went great with the green. I had a mint green guard I was gonna use but my buddy wanted it so I gave it to him and ordered the parchment and left it be.

 

[Artie]

Re: Help selecting a pickguard.

Can't you pull the cover or something?

Old vintage hotrail-type pickups had no covers... Then again, they didn't have the pcb-looking weirdness that some modern ones exhibit on the bottom either, so I'm not sure how deep the redesign goes

The covers on the Red Devils are definitely not removable.

That black pearloid is super sexy...

I did a Sherwood green relic strat last summer with a scalloped rosewood board, brass nut and I used a warmoth parchment H/S on it and I think the color went great with the green. I had a mint green guard I was gonna use but my buddy wanted it so I gave it to him and ordered the parchment and left it be.

Although I'm pretty sold on the tort idea, I may still lay a couple things on there and see how they look. Fortunately, I have several pickguards on hand to experiment with.