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How to build a bass guitar – Routing the pickup opening in the pick guard part 1
July 7, 2016 by Best Bass Gear
This is an old-school style of making a pick guard. Many bass builders would simply opt to have no pick guard at all, or alternatively buy a pre-fabricated, pre-shaped plastic guard blank. In the way the guard is done here, we physically take a plan, apply it to a large sheet of pick guard plastic and manually cut/shape it.
Will you ever need to do this yourself? If your bass build is a custom shape that requires a custom pick guard, then the answer is yes.
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