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Thoughts?
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:33 pm
by bokoharambe
Thinking of adding a gold pickguard to my 1965 AVRI - do you think it looks ok?
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:50 pm
by marqueemoon
Yes, it looks good. If the non-period correctness doesn't bother you go for it.
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:26 pm
by Hyphen Nation
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.
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:50 pm
by mackerelmint
Yes. It looks good. Things don't have to be "correct" to be awesome. Follow your bliss, damn the torpedoes, etc etc.
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:33 pm
by bacca51
Ive grown really fond of black pick up covers on this color/guard combo
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:48 pm
by mackerelmint
Well, shit. There's that hideous bridge again.
Stop it with that bridge, Fender.
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:06 am
by vandahm
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.
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:57 pm
by cbrown
That bridge should be feed to this
phone charger
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:02 am
by mackerelmint
Oh dear god, that phone charger is a nightmare.
They're a match made in hell.
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:10 am
by ifallalot
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:16 am
by mackerelmint
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.
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:32 pm
by rank
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:38 am
by markblack77
great look - love it even more when it's genuinely worn in (sorry not a fan of relics)
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 2:35 pm
by Singlebladepickup
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.
Re: Thoughts?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:39 am
by raphaƫl
I like the look of this bridge very much
The mastery has the affront to esthetics touch for me instead