best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

Post by Kyon » Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:20 pm

terminalvertigo wrote:Clashing like this?
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Original Material.
This is amazing.
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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

Post by hwestman » Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:41 am

terminalvertigo wrote:Clashing like this?
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Original Material.
Original or not.... IMHO that is not an attractive colour scheme. I understand the attraction from a nostalgic perspective but from an aestethic one... no.

New, fake, green pickguards are even worse.

My suggestions would be (in no order of preference): parchment, white, white pearl, vintage/yellowed pearl.

Feel free to hate me for not loving green guards ;) !
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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

Post by fenderjeff » Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:55 am

tort is the best ;)
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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

Post by mcjt » Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:31 am

I refinished my 1959-60 jazz master in sonic blue and i have tried several guards on it.
i finally decided on a vintage tort.
Probably what settled it for me was a "famous" vintage Daphne or Sonic jazzmaster that appeared on the forum a few years ago.....

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And trials that i made.....

1- MIJ gold
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2- Fender mint (not too green!)
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3- Fender tort (too dark! But nice!)
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And how she ended up, with her offset sisters.

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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

Post by edhirschmugl » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:14 pm

Gotta say Mint is the way to go! Makes that blue pop!
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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

Post by Filly-Fuzz » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:37 am

mcjt wrote:I refinished my 1959-60 jazz master in sonic blue and i have tried several guards on it.
i finally decided on a vintage tort.
Probably what settled it for me was a "famous" vintage Daphne or Sonic jazzmaster that appeared on the forum a few years ago.....

3- Fender tort (too dark! But nice!)
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And how she ended up, with her offset sisters.

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That dark tort is incredible! :? :?
If Barry White was tort he'd look like that
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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

Post by gunnerkevin » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:44 am

Red Tort +1
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Re: best pickguard for a sonic blue jazzmaster?

Post by Telliot » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:50 am

That red tort is really nice!

Just to follow up on my earlier post, I've since ditched the mint green for a parchment guard and I like it much more. The mint against the blue was too green! and looked kinda fake IMO.
The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.
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