Adventures in metal pickguards
- Beebe
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Re: Adventures in metal pickguards
More love here for the brown powder coat!
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Re: Adventures in metal pickguards
that’s killer!! i love the off white with the brown guard, might have to steal that idea one day
i may only have one jazzmaster...
but i want more
but i want more
- Beebe
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Just woke up still thinking about this.
Are you willing to share the color codes you used?
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- smjenkins
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Re: Adventures in metal pickguards
For sure:
Lentel Brown - https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/p ... ntel-brown
Manzanita Brown - https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/p ... nita-brown
Baja Burgundy - https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/p ... a-burgundy
From ordering about 100 different free samples from Prismatic over the years for various projects, the one thing I've found is that the photo on the website is not useful in evaluating what a color swatch will actually look like when you get it.
- Beebe
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Awesome! Thanks!smjenkins wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:26 amFor sure:
Lentel Brown - https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/p ... ntel-brown
Manzanita Brown - https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/p ... nita-brown
Baja Burgundy - https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/p ... a-burgundy
From ordering about 100 different free samples from Prismatic over the years for various projects, the one thing I've found is that the photo on the website is not useful in evaluating what a color swatch will actually look like when you get it.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
- smjenkins
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Re: Adventures in metal pickguards
More adventures!
I found a cheap aluminum strat pickguard and had it powdercoated brown. The guitar is a 50th anniversary strat deluxe in olympic white pearl I picked up way back in 2004. It was my first "nice" guitar after playing a Peavey Predator strat rip-off for 15 years and about 5-years before I fell into the offset hole. When I took off the pickguard today I saw that the finish had yellowed quite a bit. I'm kicking myself for not taking a photo under the guard.
Anyway, here's lousy modern Fender tort before and powdercoated brown aluminum after. I think this looks so much better now.
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I found a cheap aluminum strat pickguard and had it powdercoated brown. The guitar is a 50th anniversary strat deluxe in olympic white pearl I picked up way back in 2004. It was my first "nice" guitar after playing a Peavey Predator strat rip-off for 15 years and about 5-years before I fell into the offset hole. When I took off the pickguard today I saw that the finish had yellowed quite a bit. I'm kicking myself for not taking a photo under the guard.
Anyway, here's lousy modern Fender tort before and powdercoated brown aluminum after. I think this looks so much better now.
Before:
After:
- adamrobertt
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Yup. Looks great. Way better.
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Re: Adventures in metal pickguards
That brown pickguard over blonde is sweeet
- SignoftheDragon
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Powder coating should hold up pretty well to the rigors of playing rough- the coating is easily 1000x thicker than an anodized finish (which really only affects the top few layers of molecules- just what the anodizing bath can wet) and is pretty durable stuff- I imagine it could be marked/marred with enough abuse, but really it's BY FAR the most durable finish anywhere on any guitar that I'm aware of.
(My day job deals with lots of aluminum finishes- from polished chrome-plating to anodizing, painting, and powder coating for lots of exterior signs, etc.- but I haven't translated any of that metal-work into guitar building uses... maybe it's time to.)
- algeriet
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SignoftheDragon wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:24 am(My day job deals with lots of aluminum finishes- from polished chrome-plating to anodizing, painting, and powder coating for lots of exterior signs, etc.- but I haven't translated any of that metal-work into guitar building uses... maybe it's time to.)
Go for it!
- pacemaker
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Well damn, those look great – well done! Now I have a slew of new thoughts percolating in my head... in a good way!
- smjenkins
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Re: Adventures in metal pickguards
Here's a few more powdercoated guard photos that I've posted in various other threads:
FMS AV65:
Sonic gray AmPro body with Warmoth neck:
FMS AV65:
Sonic gray AmPro body with Warmoth neck:
- Larry Mal
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What a stunning guitar.
Back in those days, everyone knew that if you were talking about Destiny's Child, you were talking about Beyonce, LaTavia, LeToya, and Larry.
- smjenkins
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Thanks Larry. I really love the monochrome body and PG combo with a maple neck. I kinda stumbled upon it, but I can't stop thinking about how unique it looks.
- adamrobertt
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Really is beautiful. Not a combo I would have envisioned working on paper, either. But it just works.