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The pickguard was made by http://GilroyGuitars.com out of Australia.  I have another one just like it on a black jazz bass, very very cool pickguards.

Update:  Good-by pearloid, hello quilted maple blackburst.

Instead of reviving an old thread that veered off topic, I'll just start this new one. Some may remember I was looking for a quilted maple pickguard for a black Warmoth strat build.  After some searching around I discovered GilroyGuitars.com out of  Australia.  I'll skip the story and go...

Here is an update, I ordered this blackburst quilted maple pickguard from Gilroy Guitars in Australia.  I'm going to get another one for my blacked out strat.  These things look awesome!

Thanks for the comments!  I am so happy with how this bass turned out, I wasn't sure how the bloodwood would match the body at first but after it all got put together it seems like the neck was made for the body, almost a perfect color match.  I spent a few hours playing it today and it feels so...

The wait was worth it!  This custom jazz bass neck is bloodwood/satine back, slim taper contour, Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 6150 frets, abalone inlays and a tusq nut.  It's raw but I had a luthier spray just the pegface with some satin nitro and rub the rest down with lemon oil.  The...

That is Fender's "midnight wine" color, kind of purpleish burgundy.  I haven't seen many of these, it's a difficult color to match up with anything.  I was trying to bring the rosewood fretboard color down into the body, it kind of worked.  Anyways I like the grain, and the new unique overall...

I found a luthier in Australia (http://www.gilroyguitars.com) who is making me some quilted pickguards for strat and jazz bass.  While waiting for those I ordered an east indian rosewood pickguard from http://www.woodpickguards.biz for another strat.  I think it turned out very well, much better...

shanejw, I totally agree with you about 250k pots with humbuckers, "richer" is a great way to put it!  And thank you for the compliment, I am very proud of this guitar and by the way I found the black pearl knobs at qparts.com

The Duncan is a PA-TB3b Blues Saraceno pickup and the single coils are Bill Lawrence Wilde L-280's.  The patb3, to me, sounds open like a '59 but the treble is not nearly as harsh or piercing, has rounded mids & tighter bass and overall it has a slight cocked wah pedal type tone.  It splits very...

That's very cool that you noticed the matching color scheme.  I planned on the tuners and bridge matching but got really lucky with the saddles, its funny they kind of tie it all together.  Here's a different shot of the birdseye

I cant help but to think of Spinal Tap when I want to say it could be almost none more black.  I am going to try a black burst quilt maple pickguard on it, the pickguard is currently being made but probably wont be finished for a month or so.  I went with the black theme to match my  black jazz...

My first Warmoth!  I found this in the showcase and had them paint the pegface black and finish the back in satin nitro. -Vintage Modern, Standard Thin contour, Indian Rosewood on Birdseye Maple, Abalone Inlays I am so impressed with it that I ordered a custom brazilian rosewood on bloodwood...

I found this one on Nashville's Corner Music web site.  I wish I had a spare $6,000 laying around... http://www.cornermusic.com/Store/proddetail.asp?prod=FenderCustomYS204

Thanks for the replies!  Thats a very cool looking strat and the q-parts knobs are a nice touch too.