Anyone have any experience with Pickguardian?

[Tommygun_ted]

So I have a Gretsch junior Jett that I want to modify. I'm thinking about throwing some rickenbacker pickups into it, specifically the horseshoe bridge pup from Lollar. I was hoping to use mounting rings to make adjusting the pickups easier, but the mounting rings online are going for 100+, which is way more than I want to spend. I found a website, pickguardian, that makes a plastic mounting ring for rickenbackers in a variety of colours. Anybody have any experience with them? For about 20 bucks I feel like you can't go wrong on a 300 dollar bass.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

If you go over to the hardware, setup and repair forum and search pickguardian there’s some good and some bad experiences.

 

[sunbeast]

I've used Pickguardian for multiple Rickenbacker pickguards and always had great results. This particular pickup ring won't fit a Horseshoe pickup though, this ring is designed to fill in the space around the pickup bobbin on a bridge Hi-Gain pickup and the "shoes" of the Horseshoe pickup require the much larger cutout like the Rickenbacker pickup ring uses.

If you are willing to spend $600 on a Lollar Horseshoe pickup, what's another $120 for a ring? Or just grab one of these Horseshoes for much less $$$ and one of his matching rings: Invalid Link Removed

Or the Rickenbacker reissue that comes with the ring: Rickenbacker Horseshoe Assembly Bridge Pickup for a Rickenbacker 4001

 

[buldog5151bass]

Good produc5s, inconsistent customer service.

 

[dregsfan]

I’ve used them several times and the pick guards were very good . And I’m pretty fastidious.

 

[bass12]

I used them once - sent in my existing pickguard to be copied. The one they made for me didn't fully line up and I had to do some filing to get it to fit.