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Thoughts?

Post by bokoharambe » Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:33 pm

Thinking of adding a gold pickguard to my 1965 AVRI - do you think it looks ok? Image

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by marqueemoon » Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:50 pm

Yes, it looks good. If the non-period correctness doesn't bother you go for it.

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by Hyphen Nation » Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:26 pm

I get a little cognitive dissonance with the gold guard [tail end of the 50's] and the bound neck from post '65, but again it's all personal preference.

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by mackerelmint » Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:50 pm

Yes. It looks good. Things don't have to be "correct" to be awesome. Follow your bliss, damn the torpedoes, etc etc.
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Re: Thoughts?

Post by bacca51 » Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:33 pm

Ive grown really fond of black pick up covers on this color/guard combo

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by mackerelmint » Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:48 pm

Well, shit. There's that hideous bridge again.

Stop it with that bridge, Fender.
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Re: Thoughts?

Post by vandahm » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:06 am

mackerelmint wrote:Well, shit. There's that hideous bridge again.

Stop it with that bridge, Fender.
Once you notice it, you can't stop thinking about how wrong it looks.

Otherwise, though? Sunburst + gold pickguard + black pickup covers == awesome.

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by cbrown » Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:57 pm

That bridge should be feed to this phone charger

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by mackerelmint » Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:02 am

Oh dear god, that phone charger is a nightmare.

They're a match made in hell.
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Re: Thoughts?

Post by ifallalot » Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:10 am

cbrown wrote:That bridge should be feed to this phone charger
Why?

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by mackerelmint » Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:16 am

ifallalot wrote:
cbrown wrote:That bridge should be feed to this phone charger
Why?
Because it's an affront to aesthetics, taste, and the very nature of existence itself. If I owned a guitar company and one of my employees came up with that thing, he'd be given a letter that says "YOU'RE FIRED" just as soon as he came out of surgery to have that ugly bridge removed from his forehead.
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Re: Thoughts?

Post by rank » Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:32 pm

cbrown wrote:this phone charger
What the firetruck?
We are merely moving shadows.

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by markblack77 » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:38 am

great look - love it even more when it's genuinely worn in (sorry not a fan of relics)

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by Singlebladepickup » Sat Sep 16, 2017 2:35 pm

I just don't get how the bridge is so offensive. The mastery bridge doesn't look anything like the vintage either. I don't love the look of the newer bridge but it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

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Re: Thoughts?

Post by raphaël » Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:39 am

I like the look of this bridge very much
The mastery has the affront to esthetics touch for me instead :whistle:

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