Here is my solution to being unable to match a pickguard to my headstock veneer. Facing a pickguard the same veneer as the headstock didn't work out and the mismatch between pickguard and headstock was never resolved. Over the past couple years, I have amassed an impressive pickguard collection...
I posted up this pic of my spalted maple partscaster I put together a while back in the bound Strat thread and decided I hated the pickguard on it. I pulled it off and picked up a couple new ones and here are my options:
Since I'm a big fan of tortoise but wanted to stay with wood, here is a...
File this one under "I wanted a reclaimed relic body but may have gone a little overboard on the relicing." It's for sale out there in that wacky world called eBay if you want to "reclaim" it for your own.
I have a thing for '60's Conrad Guitars and just came across this one. Man, I am really likin' the guitar but not the price. I can actually buy a "good" guitar for the asking price on this but the heart wants the heart wants they say.
Ok, at the risk of getting my guitar-band fan and man card revoked here are a couple of tunes I listen to when I need a break. One is a Greek duo (synth-band) whose name is a clever homonym for Kypseli, the neighborhood of Athens they originally hailed from.
The other are these really...
I saw this body advertised by a seller and thought about buying one but he ships randomly boxed from stock so what is pictured isn't necessarily what you get and no returns for wood grain variations. Damn, I like that body.
Came across this one and really enjoyed his application of a "sunburst finish" with wiping stain. The outcome was pretty much as expected and a reminder that we all have to start somewhere. I'll give the guy credit though. Despite his obvious disappointment with this technique (which looked like...
Obscure, rarely used, Clapton-owned '54 hardtail Strat fails to meet the $1Million bid minimum. Someone call Joe B, I smell a deal in the making. lol
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/music/eric-clapton-guitar-auction
While trolling the 'Bay the other night I snagged my line on these 2 logs but didn't reel them in ... yet. I thought they were interesting. The first one has a nice inlaid top, the second one has a Backlund Guitars type of vibe going on. I'm normally not a fan of the "butcher block"
striped...
Ever seen one of these? Me neither. For sale on eBay along with a bunch of Burns Trisonic Pickups. Craziest looking bridge I've ever seen called a Burns Rez-o-tube bridge.
My Mary Kaye '57 is getting a body transplant, I know, it sounds like heresy but the MK finish yellowed very unevenly and looks like nicotine stained teeth. I will refinish it but that won't happen until spring at the earliest.
I initially picked up a mint CV '50's Squier take-off body in white...
I am working on this P90 guitar. Technically it's a Stratocaster but has a slab sided body like a Tele so I posted it here. It is a cherry body with a Chechen top. The neck is Cherry with a Chechen fingerboard though the board is much darker than the body.
I didn't like the plain cherry...
I have an AVRI Strat in Mary Kaye white that has yellowed significantly and unevenly from indirect daylight exposure. It isn't a good look as the guitar still retains some white areas with significant yellowing around the edges resembling nicotine stains.
Short of a complete refinish, do you...
I was browsing eBay last night and came across a neat, Mary Kaye White Telecaster body with SSH routing. I glanced over at my '57 AVRI Mary Kaye Strat and thought .. of course, a Mary Kaye Telecaster with vintage amber neck, white pickguard, cream covers on the singles and all gold hardware. I...
Ok, it was a red paisley Jay Turser Tele with Brad Paisley's signature on it, but it was a really neat little guitar. I've owned a couple Jay Turser Teles and they were really nice guitars. The red paisley on this one just knocked me out but I "snoozed and losed", literally. I fell asleep on the...