Custom pick guards

Pickguardian will make anything you want, but it isn’t cheap, I think they start at $35 and up. He has templates for all the common shapes, and will cut to a custom pattern if you send him a tracing. Very nice quality. There are other custom guard makers, somebody will chime in with more names. If you have a router and a pattern bit, not that hard to make your own.

 

You can make your own by getting a 2' X 2' piece of melamine, some mold release spray, epoxy and fiberglass cloth. Various dyes can be used, or an old Hawaiian-print shirt, or Japanese hand-made paper, or festive wrapping paper, whatever. There's colorful carbon fiber out there that would look awesome! Just set down your layers dry, then pour on the catalyzed resin, and squeegee out the excess. If you want a shiny top, put down some stretch food wrap first. When set, pop up and cut to size.

 

Thanks I do have a router and the template however after the last build I am under orders from the wife no routing in the apartment, this will obviously be ignored and I will be found out but not for a few months

 

That sounds like a Sawdust Incident, and She who you Adore was not amused. I had a similar story involving blue spray paint that my wife occasionally reminds me of. I hadda build a knock down spray booth.

 

Soon I will have a proper shop and a music room till then I have to behave