Good tortoise supplier

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Good tortoise supplier

Post by Jets » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:37 am

I totally forgot about this guy:
http://www.grevenguitars.com/tortis.htm
Makes real nice looking tortoise material. Has anyone tried to get a Jazzmaster guard made by him?

he claims to be able to " reproduce virtually ANY pickguard material from the turn of the century to the present"
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Re: Good tortoise supplier

Post by Jets » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:04 am

I've seen some of this guys tort in real life on a friends acoustic, and various examples in pictures and it's very accurate to the styles it was copying (particularly the firestripe on my friends guitar, that looked  :?).

Is no one interested that he can reproduce vintage tort accurately?

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Re: Good tortoise supplier

Post by theworkoffire » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:13 am

The size of his blanks might be a bit of a worry - 8" x 4". If he's making them himself that might be the biggest he can do, which is useless for Fenders.

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Re: Good tortoise supplier

Post by Jay » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:00 pm

It's also solid tort and not sandwiched—which one would want if trying to get a authentic looking Fender guard.

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