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02-27-2012, 04:18 PM
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Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
I love my acoustic; Plain Jane...
Simple, honest look and a fantastic tone plugged and unplugged. Specs: Solid spruce top Solid rosewood back and sides Solid mahogany neck Ebony fingerboard Long scale (650 mms) Fossil ivory nut and saddles LR Baggs M1 passive p/u (not pictured) LR Baggs iBeam p/u and imix preamp (not pictured) I´m thinking about sticking a pickguard.... Would you do it??      
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02-27-2012, 04:54 PM
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
Do you need one? Are you are hard strummer? If not, leave her be!
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02-27-2012, 05:02 PM
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
I have always wondered about acoustics that don't have a pickguard.
Is it because they're intended for fingerpicking rather than strumming that they don't have pickguards or is it purely for looks? |
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02-27-2012, 05:06 PM
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
Nah no pickguard gives you
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02-28-2012, 10:23 PM
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
Pickguard for steel-string, no pg for nylon string. Given the waist on your guitar, I would guess you've got a guitar designed/intended for fingerpicking rather than strumming, but if you strum, I'd put a pg on it.
Then again, I am one of those people who keeps the guard on his LPs, too...  Cheers!
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02-28-2012, 10:29 PM
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
I've seen more tops chewed up by finger picking than a plectrum, but only you know what you're going to do to that lovely top, and if you care or not.
I play at open mic with a guy whose '72 Martin looks almost as "bad" as Willie Nelson's acoustic. Still sounds great.
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
with that body shape and how the guitar isnt that wide between the inner curves i wouldn't put a pickgaurd
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03-01-2012, 04:06 PM
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
No pickguard is my vote!
The guitar is made to stay without it ...
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
neither of mine do. but i also dont play my acoustics everyday either so im not too worried about scratches. i think they look better without a pickguard
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Re: Pickguard or not... acoustic guitar
Silly thought but why don't you just play it until it gets scratched up and then put a pick guard over the scratches later? Just saying.
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