My old cheaper guard...

[PorkyPrimeCut]

...Any way of dating a fairly non-descript Black Jazzmaster pickguard. It has no inscriptions or scribbles. The back has a kind of foil coating.

[fuzzking]

I once had a JM with a black guard and it was a VERY late CBS production model.
I guess 80 - or 81? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong here.

But there was also at least one PROTOTYPE with a black guard. 

look here:

http://zeus.lunarpages.com/~jimshi2/jaz ... jazzma.htm



Michael

[Soiouz]

The foil in the back would indicate a late CBS indeed (around 1974-82).. I imagine it's a plastic 3-ply black/white/black pickguard right?

The black guards on the early prototypes were black anodized aluminium guards.

[fuzzking]

The black guards on the early prototypes were black anodized aluminium guards.

Me so dumb.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

I've sussed the"adding images" procedure at last. Thanks ImageShack. Here's that Pickguard. With foil.....



....oh and yes, it's a 3-ply Black-White-Black guard. Does that make it 74-82 then??

[Soiouz]

....oh and yes, it's a 3-ply Black-White-Black guard. Does that make it 74-82 then??

Definitely!

[mynameisjonas]

The black guards on the early prototypes were black anodized aluminium guards.

actually, i think they were laquered, like the the black guards on 50s musicmasters.

[fullerplast]

jazzheadmark... yes, that's a 70s guard. Did you get it on ebay from mh3e? That's me!

I sold one like that not long ago, (foil wrinkles and what looks like slight warpage included)...

[PorkyPrimeCut]

No. Its been on a Jazzmaster body (I'm in the process of doing up) for about 17 years. I bought the whole thing, plus a Squire neck, for £100. One of those projects that gets shelved for a very, very long time!!