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  1. February 2nd, 2010, 11:13 PM #1
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    Default A "poll" for your consideration...

    Just curious....

    On an Orange'ish or Red'ish sunburst Les Paul, would you prefer....


    1) A BLACK pickguard

    2) A WHITE pickguard

    3) NO pickguard



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  2. February 2nd, 2010, 11:15 PM #2
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  3. February 2nd, 2010, 11:45 PM #3
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    Black on the red-ish and remove it to see which way you like it best. The pup rings count too; black would be black or black chrome rings.

    This would be my preference for the red one.

    The orangish one I would probably go without a pickguard and let that sunshine through.

    I took the white guard off of my deep wine burgundy red birdseye maple LP Epi std and put in SD JB bridge and 59 neck and replaced the white rings with black rings. The chrome screws around the open coil pups give it a nice machine head look and the body looks fantastic without the guard.

    My white Xavier XV500 LP tribute doesn't have a pickguard stock and looks great, also sounds and plays like a guitar costing hundreds of dollars more; three quarter inch thick maple cap on mahogany body w mahogany set neck and Crunchy PAF GFS pups stock. Body woods visually verified in cavity.
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  4. February 3rd, 2010, 05:07 AM #4
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  5. February 3rd, 2010, 10:18 AM #5
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    no pickguard
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  6. February 3rd, 2010, 01:50 PM #6
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    Interesting: I have owned all three and all look pretty good. I guess pictures are in order.

    Actually creme not white.

    The Blues is alright!

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    Mine came with a pick guard, not installed. I couldn't bring myself to a) screw into the wood; and b) cover up any of that really beautiful (and expensive) nitro-cellulose finish..
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  8. February 3rd, 2010, 03:18 PM #8
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    This is one of the things that I like about electric guitars. Unlike acoustic guitars, its fairly easy to "personalise" your electric guitar. There are things you can easilly change to suit your personal preferance.

    Pickguards, tuning knobs, pickups and pickup rings, etc.

    For example, I recently picked up a like new black Epiphone Les Paul for next to nothing at a pawn shop. It played and sounded GREAT, but being all black it seemed to be kinda missing something.

    I simply put a slightly off white(sort of beige) pickguard on it and...

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  9. February 3rd, 2010, 07:58 PM #9
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    I'm allover the cream pickguard on a cherryburst Gib
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    I've always figured whenever I get one, the guard comes off.
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    http://i816.photobucket.com/albums/z...71/guitars.jpg

    heres my trans amber and faded cherry without pickguards
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    I would go cream for an understated look, or no pickguard at all depending on what the wood looked like.
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  13. February 5th, 2010, 05:09 AM #13
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    No pickguard.
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