What color Pickguard for a 3-tone Sunburst Fender Jazz?

[Guygrooves]

Its all good!

[bassdog]

I put the white perloid guard on my Am Standard Jazz with rw board. I think it looks stunningly good. Looks just like this:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...3FFDBA143F592E

Bob

[RonChase]

Yeh I agree with tort I see a lot of this combo black would be second choicr

[Lakland55]

I'm not a Tort guy so right after I bought my Roadworn Jazz I went put on a black (and then never went back) pickguard. And I also swapped the bridge for the BA II...then swapped it again for the Babicz Full Contact (in black).

[Dan B]

Personally I would go for black pearloid or flat black. Mirror might also look cool.

[Alex1984]

Tort.

[Joe Louvar]

Another vote for tort.

BTW - where can I get a tort pickguard from for my 3-tone sunburst MIM Fender Standard Jazz bass (not active)?

I bought the featured one (JPGST-ET $22.99) from http://basspartsresource.com/middle_bass.htm and it doesn’t fit - it almost fits, but it doesn’t completely meet the control cover plate so the cavity isn’t completely covered (I think it's for the active model?).

They have another 4 ply one for $42.99 http://basspartsresource.com/bpickguard_jazzgenuine.htm but I don’t know if it will fit or not. Where can I get a tort pickguard for my MIM Fender Standard Jazz bass from? Thanks

EDIT: 10 hole, with no truss notch cutout.

[christle]

Originally Posted by Joe Louvar

Another vote for tort.

BTW - where can I get a tort pickguard from for my 3-tone sunburst MIM Fender Standard Jazz bass (not active)?

I bought the featured one (JPGST-ET $22.99) from http://basspartsresource.com/middle_bass.htm and it doesn’t fit - it almost fits, but it doesn’t completely meet the control cover plate so the cavity isn’t completely covered (I think it's for the active model?).

They have another 4 ply one for $42.99 http://basspartsresource.com/bpickguard_jazzgenuine.htm but I don’t know if it will fit or not. Where can I get a tort pickguard for my MIM Fender Standard Jazz bass from? Thanks

EDIT: 10 hole, with no truss notch cutout.

Try stewmac.com or warmoth.com

[LikeRaphael]

White pg's always look cheap to me. (Though white pearl is cool). And black is boring. FOr classic sunburst -- gotta go with classic tort. You can't go wrong.

[speak2planets]

See what the burst looks like under the pickguard you have now. If it looks pretty sick, possibly try a clear one to show off the burst

[himluis1]

white pearl

[M.R. Ogle]

A slice off the ol' tortloaf.

[Joe Louvar]

Originally Posted by christle

Try stewmac.com or warmoth.com

I don’t think the stewmac.com one will fit either as shown in the first review.
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Pickguar...Pickguard.html

And I’m looking into the one at warmoth.com - I just downloaded the full size paper tinplate.

Thank you.

If anyone else has already gone through this and knows for sure where to get one that fits, please post. Thanks

[Diesel Kilgore]

Anyone ever go with no pickguard and just run the screws back into the holes? Seems like it would look cool but ive never seen that.

[Joe Louvar]

I took a look and I think it looks better with a pickguard.

[Joe Louvar]

I’d post a pic for you, but for some reason TB isn’t letting me post pics.

[Diesel Kilgore]

That stinks. Id really like to see that look.

[Malak the Mad]

You may have to buzz it down a bit. I bought a black pearloid a ways back that fit my sunburst Affinity Jazz just right. However, I swapped the plain black from my Squier Standard Jazz for the pearloid, and it didn't fit very well, probably due to the different manufacturers (Affinity=China, Standard=Indonesia).

I laid one pickguard over the other, then took a Dremel tool to the overlapping areas and slowly, very slowly, buzzed the pickguard down to a proper fit. I had to take a little off the major contact points (neck, control plate and pickup slot) but eventually, it sat in it's proper place.

If you look really close you can see small imperfections (I wasn't using any fancy workbenches, guides or otherwise. It was all done by hand and eye), but they're so tiny you'd either need to have them pointed out or have an incredibly keen eye for detail.



Going back to the original post, color matches are incredibly subjective. That being said, I've found the black pearloid + sunburst looks great. I did see a black/red/black pickguard on Warmoth. I'm curious how that little bit of red piping around the edge would look in real life. I think it would look even better on a black body, but again…subjective.

[bh2]

Got to be tort with burst... NOTHING else.

I tried the sans pickguard look for a while, then it was mentioned that the tort would shrink so I put it back on... it was a bugger because it had shrunk.

[tabdog]

Tabdog