I'm in a bit of a dilemma. One of the goals, although minor, of this project was to build the pickguard with individual pickups, based on David Gilmour's Black Strat. However Seymour Duncan makes a replacement pickguard containing all the correct pickups, switches, potentiometers and control knobs already assembled for $249.
I priced out the componants if I were to buy them indiviually and this is the cost I would be facing;
Fat 50 pickup $80
69 pickup $80
SSL 5 pickup $53
black fender pick guard $18
White volume/tone knobs $6
Fender 5 way wiring kit $30
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Total (before shipping and tax): $267
The primary goal of this project was to keep overall cost down. But If I purchase the per-assembled pickguard that would be the last purchased piece for this project.
Anyone care to voice an opinion?