Repainting pick guards?

Just order a new Pickguard.
They're only $18.

New P-Bass Pickguards

Spray paint it, and it'll look like someone
spray painted it. Not very Professional.
Lower's it's value too.

 

BTW: IMHO a Tortoise Pickguard on a Black Bass would Totally Rock!



Black Pearl is nice too.

 

i would suggest just getting a new pickguard as well if it's readily available, but i have spray painted a pickguard before with good results. it was a bullet bass which wasn't worth the cost and trouble of a custom pickguard. just tape the edges carefully if you want to preserve the layering, spray evenly (watch the spurts) and generously and let dry flat in a room with little dust. you might have to lightly sand the edges clean once it dries. let it dry COMPLETELY. this may mean over a week. i started playing the bass when i thought it was dry and got deep scratches. it takes awhile to really harden.

 

You'd have to seal whatever you do with some kinda pro-grade poly finish to be successful, IMO. Years ago I decorated the white pickguard on my Jazz bass with a trippy pattern, done with a permanent marker. I tried to protect that with the best clear stuff I could find in a can (Krylon something-or-other, don't honestly remember). Anyway, wasn't long before I had worn through both the clear cover and the "permanent" marker on the parts that my fingers regular came in contact with. Mind you, it has that cool, well-used look, a la Jaco's bass (I wish I had a digital camera to post a pic, dang it!), but it certainly didn't hold up to fingers and fingernails for any length of time...

 

What happens with the MIMs though? No pickguards for MIM Js?

 

Try a Google search.

 

You can put one of the Warmoth pickguards on your MM, if you like it.

A search gave me 10 titles about this same topic. Here are three!

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96442&highlight=Painting+pickguard

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96083&highlight=Painting+pickguard

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96083&highlight=Painting+pickguard



Treena

 

Try these.

http://www.fretland.com/reppic.html

http://www.megaguitars.com/guitar_pickguards/guitar_pickguards.htm

http://www.gui****en.com/parts/fender2.html

http://www.gui****en.com/parts/IMAGES/fender/Pick%20Guards/pickguards2.jpg



Treena

 

I have a jazz bass with precission pickups, so the pickguard is custom-made.
what kind of pickguard could I use if I don't like the one I have? I was thinking about painting mine cause I don't like the white-pearl finish.

 

Paint just doesn't want to stay on pickguards, for some reason.

Warmoth makes blank pickguard material, you can order one of these and cut it to fit.

http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Pckgrd/PGmatl.htm



http://www.usacustomguitars.com/usacg/pickguards.html


Treena

 

Dont bother, just use a nice plastic and cut to fit. We found a nice two-ply piece, black on one side and white on the other at B&Q (Think Home Depot)

 

both are great ideas instead of painting the one I have.
thanks

 

I have a cheap strat that I painted the pickguard on.

I took it off, washed if off nice. Then I took some fine sandpaper and roughed it up to prep it for spraying.

I used normal orange auto paint and it worked fine, haven't had any chips on it so far and it's been this way for a year and a half.

 

sand it down first, then normal spray paint should work fine.

 

if you're handy, the other option is contact paper. put it on and trim with x-acto knife. if you have bubbles, just prick with pin and flatten. not as permanent, but OTOH, not as permanent.

 

Look what I've done!
I messed it up by painting it but I'm starting to like the look.