WIDE bevel from your regular pickguard! DIY Relic mod
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- We take a quick look at a way to cut a new pickguard directly from your old one and then spend some time making a wide bevel SG Junior guard out of the factory one.
lastly we'll go over rounding off the edge on a freshly minted guard.
If you are interested in the source for the unaltered guard....
follow the link. I have no arrangement with this company. But a good guard is a good guard.
www.ebay.com/s...
Would love to see a vid on how to cut a “rough” with the screw method using a dremel. (Looked through your videos and didn’t see anything that looked related to this.)
Solid content Sir!
I'm gonna read into that! And thank you, I appreciate it greatly!
You would save about 3 steps by just scraping a wide bevel into it with a new sharp box knife blade. You don’t even need to sand the edge when you’re done. -GaryG (the pickguard guy)
Ehhhhh..... maybe you wouldn't need to sand the edge! Because you are Gary Tha G.
But I'm not the G! And sometimes I like the slow road and a buffed edge!
Thanks for tuning in Gary :)
I gotta hit you up for a few more guards in the coming weeks. Got some more projects coming in and they're gonna need something special. 🙌
Welp, you’ve convinced me to take a dremel to my brand new ‘61 SG’s pickguard. Here goes nothin. Lovely video man.
This is a cool way to customize and dress up old guitars. I've done it on a couple Epiphones using pickguards removed from other Les Pauls that sometimes look better without. Just finished one yesterday in fact on an Epi LP Special, it was the perfect final touch on a sweet old guitar that plays awesome but just needed a little more visual appeal. I have a good wood shop but for this I just use hand tools- coping and back saws, files, sanding blocks and sandpaper. Maybe a little work with 0000 steel wool for aging to look right on used guitars. Polish 'em out with Turtle or McGuier's fine car polish using swatches of old t-shirts. Keep working 'til you get the sheen you want.
Exactly! Little steps over time are a great way to really get these dialed in.
Thanks for watching Mark! Has the turtle brand compound worked for you? I feel like it's solid but more of a finish polish than a cut. Could never get it to really kill the haze.
@@breilly66 Turtle is slow but it's hard to mess something up with it. Eventually you get the sheen you want or are willing to settle for. Then to finish it off I buff with Johnson's paste wax, which also does a little cutting and polishing. I use the finishing polish from Turtle, not the more abrasive rubbing compound grit. I've used it to rub out superficial scuffs and scratches on poly spray finishes too and made some ugly flaws almost disappear. Just takes some time and of course parts of it can be done with a buffing wheel to move things along. I've usually got time to do most of it by hand though. And I like the idea of doing a guitar mod using only hand tools.
@Mark Pell Heck yea, I'm in the same boat. If I can slow a repair down and really work out every detail by hand.... I'm happy. :)
Good input on the TW brand. I'm going to snap some up this week and see how it rolls with a new project. Cheers for the good info, Mark!
@@breilly66 You are so welcome. Btw the TW polish does not contain silicones or wax so no reaction problems or residues that could hurt some finishes or give you other problems down the road. But it seems absolutely inert with polyurethane or polyester acrylic finishes. It is slow though but that's exactly why I like it. Less risk.
@@markpell8979 That is what I'm talking about. 🙌
Was literally just talking about the resin dissipation in the MecGuires with a friend.
Love your attention to detail in all your restorations. Pickguard bevel is something I probably wouldn’t consciously notice but it definitely accentuates the pickguard. Great tutorial!
Did everything end up working out with the jag you shipped?
Oh man.... what an ordeal. After an investigation was started I got 2 pings. Both origin scans. But both miles from each other at the same time.
Best I can figure, someone was trying to "lose" the package and when they saw the heat coming down they bailed and suddenly it "started" its journey in New Jersey. 🤔
Oh hey Ocean Beach.
What grit of sanding drum did you use?
Fine grit, 220 or up
Do you know the method for making your own custom multi ply guards? ex: If I wanted to get 3 single ply sheets, what is the correct way to put them together as a 3ply pickguard before cutting?
I'm fairly certain they are pressed together at high temps.
You could likely get sheets to bond with a brush on glue (it'd have to be very very thin in viscosity to bond abraded plastics though). And would need to be clamped down with wood sandwhiching it. This way the distribution would be even enough to counter any bubbles/air pockets which could be revealed while cutting and shaping.
I think it could be done though. And would likely open up a whole other world as far as beveling and shaping.
Honestly, this is a cool idea and needs to be explored.
@@breilly66 thank you!!
@qlyde Yessir!