A little fun with a Bongo pickguard

[OldManMusic]

What happens when you get a clear pickguard and make a trip to a fancy paper store? You get an afternoon with scissors, a knife and a whole lot of fun...

Here's the original black and new clear pg.

Here's one for the Irish and a little paisly for us old farts.

Here's something wild and something plain.

The sky and the finish line.

Here's a couple pics of my favorite, it's a little wet.

I know I'm messing with perfection. But it's all fun...

 

[stu42]

Very cool idea!! I like it

 

[JayDawg]

Those look pretty cool! I like it.

 

[J Romano]

The wet look is my favorite too!

 

[midopa]

an explosion behind the pickup

 

[dje31]

I like the sky one...it makes it look like a window. Plus it ties into the Blue Dawn finish. Different shades of blue tend to work well with each other.

 

[AnthonyD]

Nice - love a clear pickguard for the ever-changing possibilities!

 

[syciprider]

Cool! I like the wet look.

 

[0DDJ0B]

the wet one looks awesome

 

[projectapollo]

Love it. Like personalizing your pc desktop. Did you remove the strings each change out?

 

[OldManMusic]

I did not have to remove the strings for any of the work shown. On the Bongo, you just need a screwdriver to remove the wood screws and the pg pops off by sliding it out between the strings and the pup. It takes all of 2 minutes to change the look and get pack to playing. My singer takes longer than that to introduce a song at a gig...

 

[danny-79]

LOL Been there, done that with my stingray ! its great fun to do !

See here is you fancy a laugh ! http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-basses/42798-pick-guards.html

 

[JessRobinson]

Fantastic idea. Very versatile with endless possibilities.

 

[LCW]

I agree the wet one is sweet

 

[MattOfSweden]

Cool stuff!

 

[cellkirk74]

I like the paisley! Very nice!

 

[bovinehost]

I love the endless promise of a clear pickguard.

Bongos are dead easy to change out, too, as mentioned.

One thing I will note is that the Big Al 5 guard is bigger than a standard 8x10 sheet of note paper so it's hard to print something out off the computer and have it work.

 

[Big Poppa]

fun stuff

 

[KevinM]

I have a clear pickguard coming with the new addition to the family so I've been checking this out.

Questions:
What materials are good to use under the pg?
Will regular printer paper stick to the bass or bleed out the colors onto the pg?
I can see a lot of potential but not at the risk of damaging my instrument (the bass that is )

 

[MrMusashi]

My singer takes longer than that to introduce a song at a gig...

i like the way you are thinking

ps: white perloid looks stunning on blue dawn

MrM