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Mike thought you guys would like this "story"
We had a repeat customer send ua a guitar he had just purchased for some custom paint. The guitar had a pick guard on it and our customer wanted it removed and pickup covers and rings installed instead. The thing about pick guards is….. you never know what lies beneath. Sometimes they are added for protection, sometimes to hide stuff. On this particular instrument, the latter was the case.
When we disassembled the guitar, we were faced with one heck of a hack job. The pickup cavities had been routed with what must have been a hand held Dremel tool of some sort. The edges were sloppy, and the holes so big that they could not be covered with a regular ring. In addition, the pick guard had caused issues with the volume knob holes and they had subsequently been “rounded” out, probably with the same tool.
Here is what we were looking at:
Mike talked to the customer and they both decided that it was definitely worth fixing the issues properly, rather than just keep the pick guard that it had come on the guitar. After sanding down the front of the guitar with a DA, Mike plugged all the holes with dowels and then filled the pickup holes and re-routed them to the proper shape and size. The whole thing was given a good coat of sealer and then sanded down to a perfectly smooth surface.
After it was cured, the whole thing was “roughed up” and black base coat applied. Now it is ready for “Soul Sucker” graphics!
And here it is all done!
We had a repeat customer send ua a guitar he had just purchased for some custom paint. The guitar had a pick guard on it and our customer wanted it removed and pickup covers and rings installed instead. The thing about pick guards is….. you never know what lies beneath. Sometimes they are added for protection, sometimes to hide stuff. On this particular instrument, the latter was the case.
When we disassembled the guitar, we were faced with one heck of a hack job. The pickup cavities had been routed with what must have been a hand held Dremel tool of some sort. The edges were sloppy, and the holes so big that they could not be covered with a regular ring. In addition, the pick guard had caused issues with the volume knob holes and they had subsequently been “rounded” out, probably with the same tool.
Here is what we were looking at:
Mike talked to the customer and they both decided that it was definitely worth fixing the issues properly, rather than just keep the pick guard that it had come on the guitar. After sanding down the front of the guitar with a DA, Mike plugged all the holes with dowels and then filled the pickup holes and re-routed them to the proper shape and size. The whole thing was given a good coat of sealer and then sanded down to a perfectly smooth surface.
After it was cured, the whole thing was “roughed up” and black base coat applied. Now it is ready for “Soul Sucker” graphics!
And here it is all done!
I HATE BEING LEFT HANDED! 
I rock out to Baby metal because Wilkinsi said I can't listen to Rick Astley anymore.
The customer had the idea for the art, I just sketched it up and painted it for him.
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