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THose are nice - I don't care too much for the Taylor wooden ones.
But it makes me wonder: If the top is wood and the wood is prone to scratching so they use a plastic pickguard. When you put a wooden pickguard isn't that kind of defeating the purpose? I mean can't the wooden pickguard get scratched just like the wooden top?
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Now, a spruce pickguard would be pretty ridiculous. whm |
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Would a layer of ebony affect vibration of the spruce and the sound of the instrument?
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I don’t want to suggest that this automatically makes guitars with inlaid pickguards sound bad - at its worst, this would be the merest fraction of the tone-stifling inflicted by the player laying his forearm on top as he plays the instrument. But it is a minor tone dampener. Those inlaid pickguards have to be thick enough so that the inflexible pearl and abalone inlay pieces can’t pop loose. These wooden pickguards used by Taylor and now Faith guitars are considerably thinner than the inlaid pickguards have to be, though, so any impact that they have on the top’s vibrations is going to be insignificant, and thus inaudible. It’s a perfectly valid question, and five or ten years ago what they’re doing now with wooden pickguards probably wouldn’t have been possible. Because if it HAD been possible, somebody would have been doing it. So there’s probably been a production advance that allows paper-thin wooden pickguards to get sliced thinner than deli ham.... Hope that makes sense. Wade Hampton Miller |
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I want one! Although I don't think that shape would fit on my Washburn. (it is peeling up and scratched and needs replacing). And I still want a wooden one for my Taylor, and for the life of me, I can't get one from anyone, anywhere. I was hoping Taylor would sell me one, but they won't do it unless I can prove ownership of a 6 or 8 series guitar that came stock with one.
Definitely a market for nice aftermarket wooden pickguards, as I would like to buy 1 or 2 myself, and have spoken with several others who like them and can't find them anywhere. I think the effect on tone is negligible, unless they are super thick, as Wade stated. SC
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