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Back in the ye olde AGF days a gentleman named TWANG produced awesome pickguards (I have them in 3 of my SJM's and a SPB bass). And IIRC he also did Epi VJ amp mods and custom panels, etc. Is he still around? Do we have others doing stuff like this?

I used to have a thread called "Gear_Junky's Trunk of Junk" with all of my stuff for sale/trade - pickups, components, pedals, etc. I am hoping to start that again eventually and trading for work is my favorite kind of thing

TWANG has never showed up since we escaped to .net from moomoo.
He is in his 70's and last I heard he was in failing health.
I think he stopped making pickguards several years ago.

I have some tele pick guards that have portions of a local well-known artist's prints adhered to them. People really like them and a few have recognized them as her work.

However, I struck gold slapping some bumper stickers from a friend's ski shop on and old pick guard. In skiing vernacular "I temelark ski" is abbreviated to "I tele." Tele skiing is much more demanding than skiing or snowboarding* (read: you sweat your ass off), but it allows us to shimmy up to stashes that the Click-ins can't.

Anyway, Pete's bumper sticker reads "tele till your smelly." I haven't changed it out since I made it in December. This is Pete, owner of Backdoor Sports, holding and officially endorsing the Smelly Tele:

http://aguitarforum.net/download/file.p ... 3467243aa0

* Q: What's the difference between a newbie snowboarder and an expert snowboarder?
A: About three days.

Wow twang did,nt come, oh shoot

If someone's in the game, I might have work for them as well. I don't have an urgent need though.

tlarson58 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:41 am I have some tele pick guards that have portions of a local well-known artist's prints adhered to them. People really like them and a few have recognized them as her work.

However, I struck gold slapping some bumper stickers from a friend's ski shop on and old pick guard. In skiing vernacular "I temelark ski" is abbreviated to "I tele." Tele skiing is much more demanding than skiing or snowboarding* (read: you sweat your ass off), but it allows us to shimmy up to stashes that the Click-ins can't.

Anyway, Pete's bumper sticker reads "tele till your smelly." I haven't changed it out since I made it in December. This is Pete, owner of Backdoor Sports, holding and officially endorsing the Smelly Tele:

http://aguitarforum.net/download/file.p ... 3467243aa0

* Q: What's the difference between a newbie snowboarder and an expert snowboarder?
A: About three days.

I love that! Really makes a plain painted guitar pop. In fact he can get some killer pr and make a few bucks selling a 5 pack of that sticker for $25 on cl and put it under guitars and paint or pickguards.

I was considering retiring a bit ago and I was thinking I'd get the cnc to start doing custom PG. Probably just a pipe dream, like all my other projects waiting. But who knows what surge of energy I can get if work isn't draining 99.992 % on it.

Weyulllllll.....

I do have access to CNC routers at work. And I can kind of use Fusion360. But, it is at work, and I don't know how the $$ flows. And I do have to do my job, not cut things out for my personal profit.... ?

If anyone has an image and some details (i.e. pickup dimensions), I might try to cut a few when I get a chance here at work from scrap foam. I already carved a slight top for a Yamaha SG neck through I'm working on out of maple. Maybe I should put a build thread on that......

This honestly is my spastic attention span and dingyness talking. But in reality, if there is some interest, I might try out a few. It could convince me to purchase my own CNC (Xcarve). I see there's interest, but I'm not sure how my time will work out - it's hectic season here in the education world. Respond here, and I'll try to make sure I check here often - I'm not always online because of kids, etc.

Patrick

It might be a tad more complicated, i.e. mr. TWANG would have an actual SJM/Liquid pickguard to use as trace and then to be able to center new pickup routs in it. Results were awesome, though

TWANG also made the one on my WNO.

Mickey, you need to update that pic with your orange Gretsch!

Gear_Junky wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:59 pm Mickey, you need to update that pic with your orange Gretsch!

Ask and ye shall receive.

I’ve made a few myself. What a PITA. I always make a template first, which is the PITA, not the actual final cutting. I might be interested if someone were to take up the torch.

tlarson58 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:41 am I have some tele pick guards that have portions of a local well-known artist's prints adhered to them. People really like them and a few have recognized them as her work.

However, I struck gold slapping some bumper stickers from a friend's ski shop on and old pick guard. In skiing vernacular "I temelark ski" is abbreviated to "I tele." Tele skiing is much more demanding than skiing or snowboarding* (read: you sweat your ass off), but it allows us to shimmy up to stashes that the Click-ins can't.

Anyway, Pete's bumper sticker reads "tele till your smelly." I haven't changed it out since I made it in December. This is Pete, owner of Backdoor Sports, holding and officially endorsing the Smelly Tele:

http://aguitarforum.net/download/file.p ... 3467243aa0

* Q: What's the difference between a newbie snowboarder and an expert snowboarder?
A: About three days.

The smelly tele and the others mentioned above...

I have a CNC machine and a 3D printer, but neither has a big enough work area to do pick guards, so the very few I make are extremely manual effort. Having said so, I would love it if someone could share where they source cheap materials for pickguards. I'm trying to find materials for several right now... one gold flake and one b/w checkerboard (with squares 1/2" or less).

I'm looking for a PC for my SX Tele I put a set of Fender MIM Tex-Mex pups in it and they were just a bit large for the SX PC so I did some carving and it works but not how I would like it to.

Just thinking off the top of my head, I could use at least a half dozen different ones for various projects, probably close to twice that if a girl can dream...