I'm going to be ordering a few sheets from these guys:
http://www.musiclily.com/pickguards/uncut-pickguard-material
They're going to get me some bigger sheets than the odd 100mmX200mm sizes that could be used for headstocks or control cavities, but not much else. I bought a few samples off of Ebay, and I'll be getting some "normal" 435mmX290mm sheets of the "abalone" and a sheet of the "amber." What they call abalone is also being sold as "colorful" on Ebay, and it's some lovely plastic:
http://www.musiclily.com/musiclily-200100mm-uncut-celluloid-blank-sheet-for-custom-making-guitar-parts-abalone-m578.html
the blobs of color go all the way through the surface. Most all of what's sold elsewhere is a single sheet of basically "painted" acrylic glued to a white/black/white backing. This stuff may still need to be thickened, I may glue it to some 1/8" clear plexiglass, some people put a sheet of aluminum foil in-between for added zippies.
America stopped making celluloid decades ago - it's kind-of, like, sort-of flammable to the point of explosions (I have a neat recipe for making bombs out of celluloid, if that music-career stuff don't work out for ya) and plastics work is pretty evil - all those weird cancers that drinkers get, pancreatic & liver and thyroid, well, if you get them and you don't drink you're likely a plastics worker (or a printer, you know that weird acrid smell inside a copy shop? RUN...
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I-talian celluloid was then prized for a few decades, but the last I-talian shop closed in 2007 so only the Chinese get to grow the three-headed babies from now on. Anyway, look through their selection and let me know. They have some standard green, blue, red, brown pearly stuff, fairly cheap too. They have cut pickguards really cheap too, but I can't vouch for their accuracy (or against it either... :icon_biggrin): For $3-4, I might pick up a tele guard just to see. I'll probably be ordering Wednesday.
http://www.musiclily.com/pickguards/uncut-pickguard-material
They're going to get me some bigger sheets than the odd 100mmX200mm sizes that could be used for headstocks or control cavities, but not much else. I bought a few samples off of Ebay, and I'll be getting some "normal" 435mmX290mm sheets of the "abalone" and a sheet of the "amber." What they call abalone is also being sold as "colorful" on Ebay, and it's some lovely plastic:
http://www.musiclily.com/musiclily-200100mm-uncut-celluloid-blank-sheet-for-custom-making-guitar-parts-abalone-m578.html
the blobs of color go all the way through the surface. Most all of what's sold elsewhere is a single sheet of basically "painted" acrylic glued to a white/black/white backing. This stuff may still need to be thickened, I may glue it to some 1/8" clear plexiglass, some people put a sheet of aluminum foil in-between for added zippies.
America stopped making celluloid decades ago - it's kind-of, like, sort-of flammable to the point of explosions (I have a neat recipe for making bombs out of celluloid, if that music-career stuff don't work out for ya) and plastics work is pretty evil - all those weird cancers that drinkers get, pancreatic & liver and thyroid, well, if you get them and you don't drink you're likely a plastics worker (or a printer, you know that weird acrid smell inside a copy shop? RUN...

I-talian celluloid was then prized for a few decades, but the last I-talian shop closed in 2007 so only the Chinese get to grow the three-headed babies from now on. Anyway, look through their selection and let me know. They have some standard green, blue, red, brown pearly stuff, fairly cheap too. They have cut pickguards really cheap too, but I can't vouch for their accuracy (or against it either... :icon_biggrin): For $3-4, I might pick up a tele guard just to see. I'll probably be ordering Wednesday.