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Home made pick guards
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:27 pm
by gunslinger_burrito
What have you guys used for home made picky gahrdz?
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Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:59 pm
by The4455
Although I haven't Lp's or cd's could be cool. Especially is you put a piezo pickup under the vinyl and scraped across the grooves for a cool precussive sound.
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:40 am
by kaeth
I wanted a gold anodized one on the cheapz, so I used a $12 gold anodized cookie tin. Cut it out by hand nice and carefully with a dremel, then slipped about 3/4 of the way around and put a big slice into the top. I said fuck it and just made dremel swirlies all over it and now it looks like the best kind of shitty.
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:47 am
by gunslinger_burrito
Hmm. It seems like a dremel is in my future.
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 2:45 am
by Jero
I tried the LP thing once but never finished it
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 1:14 pm
by Mudfuzz
gunslinger_burrito wrote:What have you guys used for home made picky gahrdz?
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Wood
Brass
Plastic
Records
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:57 pm
by gunslinger_burrito
What material would be the easiest to work with if I don't currently own a dremel? Records sound like a cool idea (and cheap, from second-hand stores), but what do you cut them with?
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:21 pm
by Mudfuzz
A bandsaw or a router.
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:43 pm
by AxAxSxS
Mudfuzz wrote:gunslinger_burrito wrote:What have you guys used for home made picky gahrdz?
GO!
Wood
Brass
Plastic
Records
where did you get the brass? I'm working on a project for a friend with an explorer shaped body, and he wants no picguard on the front, which means panels on the back. brass would be badass!
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:58 pm
by Mudfuzz
AxAxSxS wrote:Mudfuzz wrote:gunslinger_burrito wrote:What have you guys used for home made picky gahrdz?
GO!
Wood
Brass
Plastic
Records
where did you get the brass? I'm working on a project for a friend with an explorer shaped body, and he wants no picguard on the front, which means panels on the back. brass would be badass!
Someone gave me a scrap a long time ago, I used it for my lapsteel

You can find it on ebay, but, it's hard to find it in 2-3mm it seems, on the other hand copper seems to come in more sizes

Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:59 pm
by Achtane
Brass is 'spensive, too.
Also that lapsteel is always cool as hell.
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:31 pm
by gunslinger_burrito
Mudfuzz wrote:A bandsaw or a router.
Damn. I guess I will have to buy a tool in the near future.
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:33 pm
by Mudfuzz
gunslinger_burrito wrote:Mudfuzz wrote:A bandsaw or a router.
Damn. I guess I will have to buy a tool in the near future.
It's the damned pickup holes, I mean you could do it with a drill and a coping saw, and then file/sand, but it would be a pain in the ass.
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:37 pm
by gunslinger_burrito
Yeah, I fucked up the pickguard on the current project trying to cut bigger pickup holes...... I do have some saws lying around somewhere....
Re: Home made pick guards
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:52 am
by AxAxSxS
the answer is always dremmel.
That lapsteels is badass.
I just ordered some decorative plates that will be DESTROYED in the name of pickguards. cool Egyptian engravings on them. most likely they are priceless antiques that were used to serve drugs and virgins to pharaoh. DESTROY!