Re: Warmoth pickguard's.

fenderjapan · Post by **fenderjapan** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:44 am

This probably been up here before...
Has anyone here their Celluliod Tortoise guard http://www.warmoth.com/pickguards/pickg ... uards_main
Doesn't look to bad on the picture (didn't the allparts guard either but i didn't like it too much..)
If you have their tortoise post pics!

DB · Post by DB » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:50 am

Wow, if it really looks like that I like it. A while back I posted some pics on tort guards, but don't recall seeing any Warmoth ones.

DB

fenderjapan · Post by **fenderjapan** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:09 am

DB wrote: Wow, if it really looks like that I like it. A while back I posted some pics on tort guards, but don't recall seeing any Warmoth ones.

DB

Me too

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:03 am

I have a Warmoth tort 'guard on my Tele...Looked great in the Ebay pic, but it's too dark. You can't see the tort unless it's in direct sunlight, otherwise it just looks black. That's okay, though, I like it a lot anyway...

Ebay pic:

On the guitar under lights:

You can see my Jag in the back too...

Superfuzz · Post by **Superfuzz** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:20 am

..plus warmoth doesn't cut the JM guards with a correct shape.. :-\
BTW I'm interested for a new tort guard, since the stock one on my cij has too much sentimental value now that has been signed by SY..

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:33 am

Superfuzz wrote: ..plus warmoth doesn't cut the JM guards with a correct shape.. :-\
BTW I'm interested for a new tort guard, since the stock one on my cij has too much sentimental value now that has been signed by SY..

The Tele one was an ill-fitting sumbitch, too! The right shape, but just a little off.

BTW, I don't recommend Warmoth products to anyone, due to the treatment of Tremolite and their other employees. I bought my 'guard used, before I heard all of this...
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fenderjapan · Post by **fenderjapan** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:43 pm

RumorsOFsurF wrote:

Do you have any close ups of your tele, so I can see how it really looks?

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:44 pm

I'll try and find my battery charger for my camera and get some pics today.

mjet · Post by **mjet** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:45 pm

Superfuzz wrote: ..plus warmoth doesn't cut the JM guards with a correct shape.. :-\

True. I kept looking at it and couldn't figure out where the difference was (thinking it was just the standard perimeter screw location difference), then I realized what it was - the guard ends before the bridge posts, whereas MIJ & MIA guards extend further back behind the bridge posts. So that's why they go to extremes to warn people that they aren't intended for vintage instruments.

I bought a second-hand Warmoth JM body a few months back and my friend is shielding it now. It came with what looks to be an MIJ pickguard (with guard extending under the bridge posts), but when I get it back I'll need to check on it.

fenderjapan · Post by **fenderjapan** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:53 pm

RumorsOFsurF wrote: I'll try and find my battery charger for my camera and get some pics today.

Nice

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:59 pm

Here they are...Some in direct sunlight, some sort of shaded.

A bunch of pics.

DB · Post by DB » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:25 pm

Hmmm...pretty good looking guard. It appears to have some depth to it, and in areas there's just the yellow, like on some of the vintage guards. I wonder who they get their material from?

Nice tele, by the way!

DB

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:22 pm

mjet260 wrote: the guard ends before the bridge posts

That's weird, as their Jag PG does (see mine)... Why such a change?

FireAarro · Post by **FireAarro** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:30 am

Warmoth tort looks about the same as the AVRI stuff to me.

Post by **mynameisjonas** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:35 am

Gordon wrote:
mjet260 wrote: the guard ends before the bridge posts
That's weird, as their Jag PG does (see mine)... Why such a change?

i think they made it that way so you can use any type of bridge without having to modify the guard.