How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

[Inge Malmstein]

I have 2 fender pickguards which are routed for H-S-H, white pearl and tortoise (originally H-S-S, but i made the hole of the neck pos. wider for a humbucker - it looks fine!) and i once had a combo of 5! lace Sensors.
So i have screw holes for 5 singleCOils AND 2 Humbuckers - on both pickguards. I also had 2 switches for splitting...
Now i'd like to have the pickguards in a new shape :yell:
I filled the holes on the white pearl with wax and it works! It's almost invisble!
But, what to make with the tortoise pickguard?
I would buy a new one if they wouldn't be so expensive and hard to get here :blackeye:
Any ideas or similar experiences?
Thank you!

 

[Artie]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

I can only think of one thing, but its a long shot. You could always email one of the many companies that make pickguards, and just tell them that you need to fix one. Ask them if they might send you one of the little cut-outs from where they cut the hole for a humbucker. They might.

(Unless, of course, you still have one of your own pieces laying around.)

 

[Willis]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

Warmoth isn't too expensive; you should check them out. I don't know your price range though.
http://www.warmoth.com/pickguards/pickguards.cfm?fuseaction=pickguards_strat

 

[Inge Malmstein]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

@ Artie:
I have wasted a dozen of pickguards in the last 10 yaers, which i'm gonna sell now on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=46678&item=7301586587&rd=1

They are just layin' around here, andi can't use them anymore.

@ n00b
i already checked this site, bu the problem is that shipping to Germany would make it very expensive - but thank you ;-)

 

[Artie]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

Heh . . . and I thought I came up with some crazy ideas! :laugh2:

(You should use that as an avatar.)

 

[Inge Malmstein]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

LOL
Of course THESE Pickguards are not meant to be repaired ;-)
These have been the first experiences on my very first guitar, a cheap strat copy during the mid-end 90's ;-). It has worked fine for researching.)))))))))
Maybe someone can still use some pickguards, so i thought to sell them instead of throwin them away.
They still look better than the Frankenstrat copy, which i already don't count as a guitar in my collections.
Did you note my other auctions ;-)
The warlock-copy was my second guitar and is also in a bad shape - i hope i can sell it for 100€. If someone needs a bag for a warlock ;-) and a Franken-warlock-copy for experiences...

 

[Breaking the law]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

Inge, have you checked Thomann for those pickguards? I'm not sure what they have availbale, but I'd imagine there's something.. And I love those pickguards!

 

[Benster®]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

After reading your post, this thought came to mind..
to plug the extra tortoiseshell holes.. how about this,
buy a thick tortoishell celluloid guitar pick and cut a plug for the pickguard hole out of it? i think it would be easier said than done though

 

[Inge Malmstein]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

uhm, that's very difficult - look at those pickguards that i offer ;-)
And a tortoiseshell is also expensive ;-(((((

 

[Inge Malmstein]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

@ ArtieToo
sold for 25€! This is around 33$!
Not bad for somethings i would throw away ;-)
And on the pic they look better than they are!

"Sales 8 Strat "zerbastelte" Strat Pickguards, which collected in the last years in my "tinkering rage". These have too many holes and partly unpleasant reaming and in any way Macken. Perhaps an amateur handicraftsman can which thereby begin, not to adorns the guitar, but before here rumliegen, I deliver. Those like that like it are sold, therefore no warranty. More largely I can dispatch pictures by email."

Thats the translation of my description, made by google :laugh2: :laugh2: :32:

 

[Artie]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

Trash to cash, baby. :laugh2:

Thats pretty good.

 

[Inge Malmstein]

Re: How to "repair" pickguards with too much holes? Help!

Yeah, next time I'm gonna sell a package with old pickup parts from my first "Frankenstrats": broken coils, magnets, etc...
Of course i will keep the parts of broken duncan pickups, like magnets, etc.