Fugly Pickguard Shapes

[ezbass]

  On 13/12/2024 at 15:24, Stub Mandrel said:

shtinks over the decades.

Expand  

No one wants smelly tort. 

[Clarky]

Reviving fugly scratchplates, I offer this up from a current eBay ad
 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I wonder what horrors lurk beneath that one.

[ezbass]

I know Gibson did some weird and wonderful shaped p/gs on the SG shape, but WTAF?

[neepheid]

  On 24/01/2025 at 11:12, ezbass said:

I know Gibson did some weird and wonderful shaped p/gs on the SG shape, but WTAF?

Expand  

 

There's no way that's factory fitted.

[ezbass]

  On 24/01/2025 at 13:07, neepheid said:

 

There's no way that's factory fitted.

Expand  

Absolutely. What I meant was that you have to try really hard to produce something worse than Gibson. Someone has tried really, really hard.

[Musicman666]

when i saw the title of this thread i immediately thought of this one.

 

[Woodinblack]

  On 24/01/2025 at 13:07, neepheid said:

 

There's no way that's factory fitted.

Expand  

 

No I would imagine someone put another pickup on it, routed out the front to get between the pickups and to the controls, then someone else got it, took it out and put that over. You certainly wouldn't buy that without saying 'hey can I have a pictue with the pickguard off?'

 

[wavemaker]

This monstrosity was just released by Godin at NAMM and I‘m simply baffled by its existence:

 

Edited January 25 by wavemaker

[Woodinblack]

That looks like one of those 80s gibsons when they were just kicking loads of ideas out

[AndyTravis]

  On 25/01/2025 at 21:16, wavemaker said:

This monstrosity was just released by Godin at NAMM and I‘m simply baffled by its existence:

 

Expand  

Oh good lord…that’s not ok.