natural masked pickguards

[bpmorton777]

Many people here have complained about W top routing a nice quilt-top strat...here is a posible solution....natural masked pickguards. I dont know if any guitar maker does these yet. Looks kind of cool. choose your own colors or burst or whatever...needs a pickguard shaped sticker to mask off the burst the peel away and clear coat. They must use this kind of sticker for the flames and pin stipes they do.

Brian

 

[willyk]

Why not just use a clear guard? :icon_scratch:

 

[-CB-]

clear would show the COLOR, and I think he wants the contrast of natural wood

 

[bpmorton777]

clear plastic pickguards also show the saw dust from the screws and the ugly wiring, pots, switch and cavity.

you could also do a masked pinstripe around the edge where a pickguard would be.

Brian

 

[willyk]

I see, I think.  :doh:  The idea is to keep the pickguard look on a rear route strat?  Cool  :icon_biggrin:

 

[GearBoxTy]

I kinda like the idea of the clear pickguard.  :dontknow:

 

[dudesweet157]

Clear pickguards are cool on solid colors as they add a sort of industrial look to the guitar, but on a fancy topped guitar, I think that having the guts on display would draw the eye away from the natural beauty of the wood.

 

[-CB-]

be a real pain in the butt to do ...but a contrasting outline, and clear pickguard over the masked area....

they'd look at say... how they do that?

 

[willyk]

be a real pain in the butt to do ...but a contrasting outline, and clear pickguard over the masked area....

they'd look at say... how they do that?

Sounds like a plan mate!  You first!! :icon_jokercolor:

 

[-CB-]

i would but I do teles, and the next is gonna be mary kay

 

[willyk]

You know a clear pickguard on a Mary Kaye tele would look awesome. No problems with routing showing through either, assuming you're not doing another thinline?

 

[-CB-]

actually... when it happens, the mary kay will be with white guard, a recreation of my 72.

 

[eddiebax]

Let's not forget Stevie Ray Vaughn, who put a lefty tremolo into that sunburst strat of his ("Main was it?)

Not quite Steve Miller, but he obviously thought Hendrix was on to something (ah, those ever creative lefties!)

 

[rockskate4x]

Number One is the SRV strat ur talking about...

 

[GoDrex]

is it bump year old threads day? not that I care... just sayin :laughing7:

 

[line6man]

I am intrigued by your idea, but its too cheesy for me.
It sort of reminds me of those Tuxedo T-Shirts.

 

[shanejw]

I'd love to see something like that.