Exotic Pickguards... Let's See Them!

[sum dum gai]

And the Bongo.......

Wow. I have not seen a rig quite like that one. What are the details on it? Very nice!

 

[Darkstrike]

Where do you get stainless steel, or chrome pickguards?

 

[mrman740]

How about this one??? Would this count???

 

[El-Bob]

As suggested I'm posting a pic here.

Any info and other pics can be found here:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=434379

that's awesome

 

[stevetat]

 

[gold_member_321]

Wheres the meatwad p-bass pickguard!?

 

[Number27]

Oo.. can't wait to show mine off when its finished.

 

[damianerskine]

Just finished making this with a friend (who has the right tools and more no-how than I !

Sure it could've been a tad neater, but I'm extremely happy with my little project bass!
I'm really glad I went with a seperate ramp/J pup sleeve. Let me know what you think. First time doing anything like this...

It was a 72' P-bass I found while on the road. The only thing left of that is the body. It's got an Audere pre and Lane Poor pups. It was modified (poorly) when I bought it, so I figured I'd just go to town on it and see what happened... It plays and sounds WONDERFUL now! stoked on it...

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[GBGLJE]

I like it, you now have two pickguards. very unique.

 

[mongo2]

+1... Like a "flux capacitor" bass, I hope you guys know what I'm talking about.

That would be sweet! I would love to see that.

See if Emmett Brown over at Outtatime Guitars can build it...

Please excuse the crudity of the model... it's not to scale.

 

[waseok]

I like this one much better over the other 2

With my Stingray (I know it's not a J...but you get the idea), I went with Abalone over the Natural Ash. Kind of a departure from the standard white or black perloid.

iS that pre ernie ball musicman???

 

[waseok]

Yeah its a Ramirez, and its awesome!
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[lomo]

When I got this used Roscoe Beck V it was just another one of thousands, but after a good setup with new Chrome flats and this "snakeskin" pickguard, it became "Rufus".

 

[Hoover]

Unfortunately I don't have any pics, but back in 1978, with the help of Dave Phelsenthal of MIT's Electronic Research Society, I built a new pickguard for my Gibson Ripper out of 1/8" thick aluminum. The really cool thing is that rather than copy the shape of the original huge Gibson plastic pickguard that covers most of the face of the bass, I just traced the lower third, so it only covered the control cavity. Looked sort of like the floating pickguard on an archtop f-hole guitar. Tre sexy.

 

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[DavidRavenMoon]

That's very cool. I had a similar pickguard on my '73 4001, but it was pearl. I also had a sidewinder at the neck, a real Gibson one with chrome cover, and the bridge unit was replaced with a Hi-A mini humbucker.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

 

[hkroy]

Nope, my buddy made it. He is a beginning luthier and I wanted something cool so I payed him to do it. It turned out amazing, better than I could of ever hoped.

hey man...your PG is wonderful and cool...

I love it. Will your buddy do any other custom PG (smae pattern with different/same color)?

Peace,
Roy

 

[FL Knifemaker]

And the Bongo.......

Wow. I have not seen a rig quite like that one. What are the details on it? Very nice!

It's aluminum diamond plate. Just something I WHIPPED up in my shop

I also made a clear lexan one at the same time. Unfortunatley, their isn't much money in pickguards. My dream to become a pickguard tycoon was short lived

 

[Woodchuck]

Nice!!