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02-03-2024, 01:57 PM
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Installing a pickguard on a not-new guitar...
I traded one cool guitar for another cool guitar recently: a 2004 Schoenberg/Sexauer...
 It has never had a pickguard, and Bruce Sexauer's page for it says he made it for a finger style player. Anywho... I'll probably just mark it up without a pickguard, so... Taylor Mullins to the rescue!  Don't worry, I didn't stick it on crooked (yet  ) , I just dropped it there for the picture... Anywho... 20 years without a pickguard and the area where the pickguard goes is almost as smooth as can be. You can just barely feel a tiny area of texture that I couldn't get to show in a picture. Taylor sends along instructions I'm going to follow when I do stick it on. I think (whatta y'all think?) the tiny area of texture doesn't make any difference and I'll just ignore it like it wasn't there... -Mike 
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02-03-2024, 02:38 PM
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Looks good to me. I prefer the protection of a pick guard.
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02-04-2024, 04:14 AM
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I've just fitted a pickguard yesterday. My Auden looks pretty much the same as your guitar, with a soft satin cedar top, Rosewood B&S. Fab guitar, but a couple of days ago I noticed lots of little pick mark stabs on the surface. I usually thumpick and fingers, but I have a few songs where I use my 1mm Nylon Max Grips. Odd, I thought? How comes that level of damage appears - yeah, soft top. But then the lightbulb came on. There is one song I play and sing where I use a plectrum, but thump the bridge end of the guitar in a sort of synchopated fashion. The plectrum, still being in my hand, was hitting the surface. On a guitar with a hard glossy finish, it wouldn't have done any damage, but on my satin light unglossed geetar, it gave it a bit of a battering. That song is Stealer's Wheel's, 'Stuck in the Middle' - made famous internationally by Tarantino, but famous in UK long before as Gerry Rafferty's first hit. I had been practising it a lot for a gig.
Anyway, nuff rambling - go with the scratchplate. Looks good. Top tip - remove the first three strings (slacken them off and take them out from the pin holes) to give you space. Mark in fine pencil the points at each end of the purfling border where the plate meets, and try approaching it about 5/6 times to get your eye in before you remove the backing. Then smile, exhale and go ahead. For those in the UK - there is a chap (JP guitars) who sells parts 'n' stuff. Easily contactable (replies promptly to emails), and has templates on his website that you can print off and try. Took me a while to discover that a scratchplate made for a Gibson L-00 fitted the Auden soundhole and guitar body absolutely perfectly - almost as if made for it. I just throw that out there ..
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