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I have to agree, get a strat. I purposely went no pickguard on my current soloist project.
 
I say whatever floats your boat WRT to guitar design. Mix and match, have fun, create something unique and/or fits your desires/needs.

Fer instance a certain double F hole, double bound, no body contours, no pickguard, strat comes to mind . . . and look how nice that came out.


 
The main reason to use a Soloist body design is to get better upper fret access coupled with the comfort and balance of a Strat. So, if one can't afford the carved top a Soloist normally has (understandable, since judging by the price Warmoth charges for that option they must only hire high-profile doctors with scalpels and 1200 grit sandpaper to shape them), then a flat top is the way to go and still get the same performance. Flat tops traditionally have pickguards, so I don't think it's such a sin.
 
ClassicMetalMatt said:
Then it would look like an RG. i have no problems with that.

It would look more like that awful green guitar that Steve Vai has, which is a cross between a JEM and a Strat.
 
I think pickguards for soloist bodies would be cool. Even for just decorative purposes they are useful for unifying a design if you match it with other plastic parts or knobs. Having it contrast from the body color looks nice too.

I don't like the strat shape though. I think something closer to the cabronita pickguard shape would look good.
 
OldManRiver said:
I think pickguards for soloist bodies would be cool. Even for just decorative purposes they are useful for unifying a design if you match it with other plastic parts or knobs. Having it contrast from the body color looks nice too.

I don't like the strat shape though. I think something closer to the cabronita pickguard shape would look good.

+1

I don't like it if it looks like an "off" strat. But if it was different enough, I could see it being a cool option to have.
 
Soloist is very close to the strat shape, it looks natural to me.



Suhr has the standard model, a variation of the strat/soloist. They offer it top & rear routed.
http://www.suhrguitars.com/guitarsCustom.aspx#bodyShapes
Others have done it since the 80's, nothing new. Even the strat shape is not the same since the 50's, Fender has changed it slightly a few times over the years.
 
I'm for a soloist + pickguard.  Since we can't have RG/Jem bodies, it's the closest thing to it.
 
AutoBat said:
I'm for a soloist + pickguard.  Since we can't have RG/Jem bodies, it's the closest thing to it.
Next you'll want one of those stupid monkey grips and AANJ... :doh:

Leave the PG's for strats, soloists don't need them...For what it's worth, a soloist should only be available with a floyd route and one hum, one knob, that's it... :party07:
 
DangerousR6 said:
AutoBat said:
I'm for a soloist + pickguard.  Since we can't have RG/Jem bodies, it's the closest thing to it.
Next you'll want one of those stupid monkey grips and AANJ... :doh:
I never said I didn't, but I know well enough not to expect it here.
 
AutoBat said:
DangerousR6 said:
AutoBat said:
I'm for a soloist + pickguard.  Since we can't have RG/Jem bodies, it's the closest thing to it.
Next you'll want one of those stupid monkey grips and AANJ... :doh:
I never said I didn't, but I know well enough not to expect it here.
Actually I like the monkey grip, I was just being mean.... :icon_biggrin:
 
The Zion radicaster has a similar pickguard (goes a bit closer to the edge than the strat does).  Staring at it some more, and trying to enumerate just what it is I like I realized....

It's the single coils! especially the bridge. Rear routed bridge single looks absolutely stupid. It's passable on SSH, but ...SSS needs a pickguard, period.
 
DangerousR6 said:
AutoBat said:
I'm for a soloist + pickguard.  Since we can't have RG/Jem bodies, it's the closest thing to it.
Next you'll want one of those stupid monkey grips and AANJ... :doh:

Leave the PG's for strats, soloists don't need them...For what it's worth, a soloist should only be available with a floyd route and one hum, one knob, that's it... :party07:

Soloist with reverse pointy headstock, Gretsch thumb inlays, Bigsby, TV Jones p'ups.....mmmm.
 
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