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RED tortoise pickguard

Makten

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Oct 30, 2007
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I want a red tortoise pickguard for my Precision (olympic white), but all i find is ugly brown ones, or "photo fake" red ones. Where can I find a genuine (celluloid if possible) guard these days?
After googling for a while it seems that many Fender tortoise pickguards had the right look in the late sixties. I want it to be red to almost black, with serious "swirls" in the pattern. Something like this:

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Any ideas? :help:

Edit: Oh! I live in Sweden, so shipping to Europe is a must if you know any american dealers who's got what I want. :)
 
allparts has them. I don't know if they ship to europe, but I think they have a UK all parts?

http://www.allparts.com/store/pick-guards-for-bass-guitars-pg-0750-044,Product.asp

EDIT: I found the uk allparts one:
http://www.allparts.uk.com/catalogue/product_info.php?cPath=91011_91096&products_id=11944
Yes, I can actually order Allparts from any music store here. :cool: But I've heard that those don't look very good, so I don't know if I want to buy one before I've seen a better picture. Looks quite OK, but a little too "plain". That's a problem; you can't know what it looks like from the often crappy pictures on the internet. :hmm:
 
I had an all-parts red tort on an old bass of mine, it looked pretty nice.

They also have a similar one called shell I believe. (Not sure if its an abbreviation but I've seen them for sale and the tags have said Shell Guard. There was also Tort Guard as well for the more traditional ones. I don't really know if thats an actual distinction or not, sorry I can't be of more help.)

What about Warmoth?
 
I had an all-parts red tort on an old bass of mine, it looked pretty nice.

They also have a similar one called shell I believe. (Not sure if its an abbreviation but I've seen them for sale and the tags have said Shell Guard. There was also Tort Guard as well for the more traditional ones. I don't really know if thats an actual distinction or not, sorry I can't be of more help.)
I think it's the same thing. "Tortoise shell" is the full name for it.

What about Warmoth?
They don't have the red type, unfortunately.