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An OverDrive Custom Guitar Works
Exclusive
RIGHT HANDED
A very unique feature of our
custom White 1 Ply 0.120" Acrylic pickguard is the rounded and
polished edge. Your typical Strat® pickguard has a
beveled 45° edge which can be found on just about any Strat® for the
last 50+ years, but we're going to change that....
This white 1 ply 0.120" thick
Acrylic pickguard with the rounded and polished edge is
the same style of pickguard found on Gilmour's Black
Strat® with one exception; this
pickguard will not have the small slot for
the recessed mini-toggle switching system,
this feature has been removed from the design based on
many customer
requests.
We offer three options for shielding;
1) No shielding,
2) copper foil shielding in the control
region only (click for illustration
of this style of shielding) or
3) full coverage aluminum shield.
The full coverage aluminum shield is a '62
style genuine Fender® #
001-9699-049 that is 0.012" thick and mounts
underneath the pickguard in-between the controls, it is
not adhered to pickguard with adhesive.
Click here to see an illustration
of the full coverage aluminum shield installed. These pickguards are
manufactured on an "As
Ordered" basis. There is up to 31 day build time on
these pickguards.
Pickguard
Is Available With The Following Features
IMPORTANT ACRYLIC CLEANING NOTE:
When cleaning any Acrylic pickguard or back
plate ONLY USE the following approved
cleaners. Use of any other cleaning product
may damage the Acrylic.
- Novus #1, Plastic
Clean and Shine.
- Kleenmaster
Brillianize.
Both of these products
can be purchased from a company called
"Tap
Plastics". Here is a direct link to the
item page for the
Kleenmaster Brillianize
and here is a
link for the
Novus #1.
We now
have the matching counterpart back plate to go
along with these pickguards that is also White 1 Ply 0.120"
Acrylic with a Rounded and Polished Edge.
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Shown above in the Standard
11 Hole mounting pattern, also available in '57
Vintage 8 Hole mounting pattern, mounting hole
pattern selected below in drop-down option
selections.
Shown above in the Standard
11 Hole mounting pattern, also available in '57
Vintage 8 Hole mounting pattern, mounting hole
pattern selected below in drop-down option
selections. |
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Close-up detail of the rounded and polished edge
of our White 1 Ply 0.120" Acrylic pickguard.
Complete guitar shown for illustration purposes
only, this purchase item is for the white
Acrylic pickguard only.
Our White 1 Ply 0.120"
Acrylic Pickguard with the Rounded and Polished
Edge installed in a two-tone burst Strat®. Complete
guitar shown for illustration purposes only,
this purchase item is for the white Acrylic
pickguard only.
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Each of our 1 ply 0.120”
Acrylic pickguards with the rounded and
polished edge are custom hand manufactured
in our shop specifically for each customer.
They start off being cut out of a sheet of
Acrylic with a CNC laser which creates the
basic pickguard shape with all holes and
cutouts. We then create the pickguards
round-over edge effect by hand with a
table router where the pickguard is affixed to a
routing template where we trim the pickguard
to it’s final size and create the rounded
perimeter edge. From there the pickguards
rounded edge is hand sanded with a fine
sandpaper to remove any tooling marks left
behind by the router bit. The
smoothly sanded rounded edge can then be
polished with a special
buffing wheel and a polishing compound used
exclusively for Acrylic which creates the
highly polished and glossy rounded edge.
The pickguards mounting holes are then
countersunk, copper foil shielding tape is
applied to the control region and a final
polishing of the entire pickguard is
completed. It’s a fairly long process to
create one of these unique pickguards, but
we feel that final product is one that
stands above the typical Strat® pickguard
that have been produced the same way for
over 50 years. This unique rounded and
polished pickguard edge is only available on
our Black or White 1 Ply 0.120" Acrylic
pickguards. Pickup and 5-way switch mounting
holes are not countersunk and require round
head mounting screws.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are planning on using a 22
fret neck with this 0.120" thick pickguard some body and
neck combinations may
experience clearance issues with the 22'nd fret overhang
coming in contact with the surface pickguard. However, if you can measure the clearance
between the underside of your 22'nd fret overhang and the top of your
current 0.90" thick 3 ply pickguard and you can measure at least 0.035" then the
Black 1 Ply 0.120" Rounded and Polished Edge Acrylic
pickguard should work fine.
Typical automotive feeler gauges should work fine to
determine this clearance or you could use an old "D"
string (0.035") and see if it will slip underneath your
22'nd fret overhang, this is a simple tool that works
quite effectively.
Remember,
if you are adding the
Full Coverage Aluminum Pickguard Shield
to your order, you will be adding 0.012" to the overall
pickguard thickness, so be sure to factor in this
additional figure into your measurements of your 22'nd
fret overhang clearance.
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Typical turn-around time
from order placement to shipment is up to 45 days. Holiday work-loads
sometimes may increase turn-around time, but keep in
mind, we don't waste any time in getting these prepared,
packed and shipped on their way to you.
Each pickguard is custom manufactured for
each customer and does not qualify for
return, exchange or refund.
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