Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Fifth Purchase: Pre-Assembled Pickguard $249.99 (Total: $699.06)

Based on all the overwhelming feedback <end sarcasm> I decided to go with the pre-assembled pickguard.

Here is an image of the top
 And here is a image of the back.

This should be the finial piece.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Dilemma

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?