Second experiment

[ttmax]

HarleyBenton te-52 change bridge and bridge pickup with humbucker.
I don't think so much about the sound obtained, of course there is a small imbalance between the single coil (vintage) and the humbucker, maybe you can fix it with a single coil or reversing the phase (I'll try this solution first) I really like it now instead the sound I get with the selector in pos bridge. Come on, do you think the pickguard I want to mount? 1 or 2
Shape (black colour of corse)

There have never been so leaving by default that they leave in sight the errors committed by a bad day for tariff and from the usual hurry.

[salteedog]

These are interesting variations on the usual pickguard. I vote shape 1.

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Not sure how much you are trying to cover up but maybe take a little of the strat plate design to take away some of the bulk of plastic and create some more flow to the silhouette?

[ttmax]

This two points

[LeoThunder]

May 1, 2019 23:00:50 GMT @defjef said:

Not sure how much you are trying to cover up but maybe take a little of the strat plate design to take away some of the bulk of plastic and create some more flow to the silhouette?

Well, if we're playing that game…

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May 2, 2019 1:48:12 GMT ttmax said:

This two points

Oh, I see, even less than I had thought.

A slightly shrunken stratocasterish one would be very easy to do in that case. The problem area in the looks, to my eye, seems to be the extension of the scratchplate below the control plate if a tele one gets extended.

You could also think of simply filling the two visible slots with some matching wedges of wood. They are barely visible now so I'm sure they'd become invisible.

I had to fill a strat trem slot with a block of maple wood to make my frankencaster but, although it's still visible, it doesn't concern me.

[ttmax]

Thank you for info, the problem is, I think, more difficult to repair the wood, moreover I am afraid to screw the bridge, the screws are quite precarious (due to wood or what the cabbage is so hard to destroy the drill bit for the iron), so I found a sheet 43x28 ​​used to create a pickguard. Starting from the original design, I thought I stretched to the end of the bridge, so as to cover the two side holes (both do not affect the sound) and a svirgulated part between the bridge and the control panel not visible in the photo (but exists) due to the color for transparent This is an announcement for a male working day. What do you think about it?

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I wouldn't worry about that bridge plate shifting. You have a string through body which should help to clamp that bridge down. I worried about my straight through string pull somehow pulling the maple block in some way with all that forward force but it's not shifted.

However, if you are keen to do a longer scratchplate I would have a good think about the aesthetics of it so it doesn't end up looking like some of those pickup test guitars that you see around the internet. Of course our eye can get used to anything. You could argue that the standard tele scratchplate looks plain weird with its suddenly truncated end.

[ttmax]

You are right, I will do delke tests until I find a pleasant solution, after all I can't go back and I can't digest the two holes. Blessed stratocasters that are easily modified.

Probanly choice number 4 (last)

[ttmax]

Waiting pickguard work in progress

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Yep, that last pic looks comfortable and works for me.

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Is that just a mockup that you are going to recreate with a full size new scratchplate or are you planning to add just those extra extension pieces? I wouldn't fancy doing the latter. It's those screw marks that are on the white pieces that makes me ask, with just one screw holding that little piece below the control plate. That wouldn't hold nicely at all. Please tell me you are going to make a whole new one.

Looks made for it.




Bit like a Fender Mustang:

[ttmax]

Shure one piece i am waiting this