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View Poll Results: Should I add a pickguard? | |
a. pickguard 1
|    | 5 | 4.13% | |
b. pickguard 2
|    | 42 | 34.71% | |
c. just leave it alone you fool
|    | 74 | 61.16% |
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03-22-2011, 04:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: London, UK | | | Should I add a pickguard to my Lakland
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I have a lovely sounding Lakland 4401, but I've never been 100% happy with the look of it.
I got it as a little present to myself for getting a new job a few years back. I wanted a nice traditional looking Jazz bass. I should have got it in black as that's more me but was offered it for less in sunburst so took it. And have regretted a little it ever since.
I've always prefered basses with pickguards so should I...
a. 
b. 
c.  G]
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03-22-2011, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | | I think 'B' looks pretty good. Just don't use screws, because at some point you'll probably change your mind. Double-stick tape works fine.
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03-22-2011, 04:28 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mike Lull, Lakland, Aguilar, JH Audio | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Simi Valley, CA | | I like the looks of the Lakies with pickguards. This is what I did to mine...I prefer the guard without the part over the lower horn, but if you're going for the jazz look go with option B for sure.  |
03-22-2011, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by KidBanjo I have a lovely sounding Lakland 4401, but I've never been 100% happy with the look of it.
I got it as a little present to myself for getting a new job a few years back. I wanted a nice traditional looking Jazz bass. I should have got it in black as that's more me but was offered it for less in sunburst so took it. And have regretted a little it ever since.
I've always prefered basses with pickguards so should I...
a.
b.
c. G]
(excuse the rough images, you get the idea) | Saw the headstock off, put a Steinberger bridge on it and turn it into a headless, then, put a split whammy bar on it and paint it pink. 
Problem solved!
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03-22-2011, 04:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Johnson City, TN | | none of the above  go tort
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03-22-2011, 04:45 PM
|  | Sleepy Pickles McGee | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Flanders (Belgium) | | Although I suppose that at Lakland they know what they're doing and why they design something a certain way, I like the second (small) pickguard a lot: it balances the overall look quite nice, and makes the version below look like if something is missing! They might steal your idea if someone there sees this! 
Not fond of the 50's P-ish first PG: looks terrific on a vintage P, but not on this particular bass, as if someone was trying to cover up something!
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03-22-2011, 04:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Seattle USA | | | Bassflute hit it out of the park! Classic. |
03-22-2011, 05:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: MI | | | My first thought was the small pick guard b, but then looking at it longer, the pickguard started looking out of place to me. So, I voted "leave it alone". |
03-22-2011, 05:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Richmond Hill, GA | | | clear guard. possibly the best of both worlds.
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03-22-2011, 05:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Redwood City, CA | | | I've had this thought many times looking at my 44-01, but finally came to the conclusion that I like it as is, no pickguard. |
03-22-2011, 05:12 PM
|  | Last guy you want to see is Employee Relations guy | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Bawl'mer, Md | | | I like B...voted B...but I think you should probably leave it alone. |
03-22-2011, 05:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Denver, CO | | | i think choice 1 will improve your playing the most. |
03-22-2011, 05:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Long Island | | | Laklands look great with pickguards, back in the day the US classic model came with pickguards. I had a 44-02 natural with a tort guard and it looked great.
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03-22-2011, 05:48 PM
| | | | "B" with a tort guard.
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03-22-2011, 06:06 PM
|  | More fool me. | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Cincy, OH | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MattyH "B" with a tort guard. | +1 |
03-22-2011, 06:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Pickguard 1 is fugly.
me, I like pickguards to narrow the gap between the body and the strings, but on nice wood I'd prefer a clear one...
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03-22-2011, 06:31 PM
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03-22-2011, 06:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Northern Michigan | | I'm with ya mc_muench,I like the way it accents the action of the grain. Kind of a reverse-Marcus Miller thing goin too..Not that there's anything wrong with the Jazz PG,or none at all,But everyone's seen a jazz bass,and the best graining is in the lower bout anyway.. |
03-22-2011, 06:59 PM
| | | | What about a white pick-guard I had a Fender P back in the 80's with a burst and white pickguard and I loved the look |
03-22-2011, 07:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Baltimore, Maryland | | | I like a best.
Also, sunbursts and tort are ugly enough alone, don't make it worse by combining them!
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