Guitar Pick Guard Wood Supplier?

[jbrowning]

Good morning everyone, sorry to have been away for so long. But it's been to danged cold to work in the garage, so I've been working on repairing/setting up electric guitars. It had come up on a thread on a guitar site about members other hobbies. Well I said woodworking and showed off some of the stuff I've made and someone asked me if I had thought about making a pick guard on the scroll saw in Maple or Burled Walnut. I'm thinking I wood (ha ha) need a thin board 1/8" thin by about 12" x 12" thin. And if this takes off and others want wooden pick guards would I need to invest in a band saw to cut wood this thin? At first I would only want to buy the pieces at 1/8"x12"x12" or wider then 12"

Thank you and I hope everyone has been staying out of trouble.

Jim

 

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

Jim, not to burst your bubble but there are many vendors out there who do this and CNC them and make them very decorative and cheap. Look at Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/wood-pickguard/s?k=wood+pickguard

Now people on itsy sell as if it is a hobby so prices are higher. 

https://www.etsy.com/market/wood_pickguard

But if still interested you can buy thin stock from various vendors but you are going to pay premium prices for the milling and if wanted in 12 X 12 you will get spliced boards. Ocooch hardwoods, D&D hardwoods, and I am sure there are moore. Getting that thin you then have to worry about warping.  

Now another way to go would be to use veneers and lay on plywoods. More stable. I am not into musical instruments so I am looking at this from the outside looking in. Maybe something more here than I know so maybe other have more in depth ideas. Good luck.

Edited February 10, 2020 by JTTHECLOCKMAN

[jbrowning]

Well, it was just a thought John. But I wonder how hard it would be to cut one using plastic? That way I would need to worry about it warping.

[ScollSaw Slasher]

As a guitar player, an 1/8" pickguard would be too thick. Even a 1/16" would be problematic and both would probably affect the tone as well on an acoustic. On an electric, wouldn't matter. But even on electric I still want that pickguard as thin as possible.

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

9 minutes ago, jbrowning said:

Well, it was just a thought John. But I wonder how hard it would be to cut one using plastic? That way I would need to worry about it warping.

Very easy. I and many others, use the plastic alot when making pens. They use for segmenting because you can get in various layers and colors.  I just bought some real thin stuff that I want to try wrapping on pen tubes. It looks alot like the guitar picks. Good luck with your venture. 

[Puzzleguy]

Jim , I'm betting that you'd do a great job - when i built a mandolin I used a very thin piece

of wood - thinking as thin as I could get it -thinking it might of been Birds eye maple .

Edited February 11, 2020 by Puzzleguy

[barb.j.enders]

Hubby just pulled out 3 of his guitars.  One pick guard was closer to 1/4", one was about 1/8" and on the acoustic it was more a veneer aplique.

[Puzzleguy]

This is a place about 45 minutes from me - 

Talk about a crazy place to buy veneer - 

its grown immensly since my last visit which i think was

like a zillion years ago - this is an amazing place-

 

https://www.certainlywood.com/

Edited February 11, 2020 by Puzzleguy

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

4 hours ago, Puzzleguy said:

This is a place about 45 minutes from me - 

Talk about a crazy place to buy veneer - 

its grown immensly since my last visit which i think was

like a zillion years ago - this is an amazing place-

 

https://www.certainlywood.com/

They come to all the woodworking shows and I have bought many veneers from them and their quality is great.