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New Pickguard Day!

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Billy3000

Dec 18, 2008
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Might be kind of a minor idea for a thread, but I'm pretty excited about the difference that this pickguard made on my bass! I got the pickguard for free from my friend who was given it but didn't have a p bass. It didn't have any shielding on the underside of the pickguard when I got it, so I added some myself with some heavy duty aluminum foil and Elmer's spray adhesive, it was pretty simple actually.

Anyway here's the pics before:
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and After:
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Seriously I keep looking at it and thinking that I got a new bass, I'm just as excited about it as I am about a new bass! I liked the tort, but I kept noticing in pictures from shows that it was showing up more bright and red, even though it was darker and more brown in person. I really like the look of the black on this bass a lot more now. Of course I still have the tort pickguard so I can swap back at anytime if I want to.
 
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Billy3000 said:
Seriously I keep looking at it and thinking that I got a new bass, I'm just as excited about it as I am about a new bass! I liked the tort, but I kept noticing in pictures from shows that it was showing up more bright and red, even though it was darker and more brown in person. I really like the look of the black on this bass a lot more now. Of course I still have the tort pickguard so I can swap back at anytime if I want to.
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You said it! I recently got a bunch of new pickguards and I LOVED the feel of playing new basses it gives you! And they look great too!

And speaking of pickguards, shielding, and spray adhesive. I just noticed the back cavity cover on my Modulus was looking really ratty. It had bad belt buckle rash and the aluminum foil on the other side was all chewed up and coming off for some reason. So a quick trip over to PickGuardian and Tony whips me out a brand new copy. He suggests a black mat finish to hide scratches in the future. I take it home, do the spray adhesive on a piece of hobby copper foil (from Hobby Lobby) stick it on, trim the edges et voila!

OK, a new cavity cover isn't quite as much fun as a new pickguard, but it does look like a million now and is as quiet as ever!
 
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bassbenj said:
You said it! I recently got a bunch of new pickguards and I LOVED the feel of playing new basses it gives you! And they look great too!

And speaking of pickguards, shielding, and spray adhesive. I just noticed the back cavity cover on my Modulus was looking really ratty. It had bad belt buckle rash and the aluminum foil on the other side was all chewed up and coming off for some reason. So a quick trip over to PickGuardian and Tony whips me out a brand new copy. He suggests a black mat finish to hide scratches in the future. I take it home, do the spray adhesive on a piece of hobby copper foil (from Hobby Lobby) stick it on, trim the edges et voila!

OK, a new cavity cover isn't quite as much fun as a new pickguard, but it does look like a million now and is as quiet as ever!
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I'm always excited about any mod, even if it's something as small as a cavity cover or knobs or something! I see a lot of places selling the copper foil, but all my pickguards from factory guitars or basses have had aluminum rather than copper, so I just went with the heavy duty aluminum foil as was recommended by a few websites since I couldn't find the copper foil anywhere and didn't want to order it from a website. I think I even did a better job than Fender did on the stock pickguard, I covered more, and it's actually a little quieter. It wasn't really that noisy before, but there was a slight, tiny bit of noise, and that's gone now.
 

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