Guitar Pickguards.....

[mayan]

Do they effect the sound coming from the top wood at all ?

Why is it that some guitar models do not have them ?

Is it because of this reason ?

Do they somehow act as a muffle and mute the potentialy full-sound ?

 

 

[guitarist21]

Do they effect the sound coming from the top wood at all ? Why is it that some guitar models do not have them ? Is it because of this reason ? Do they somehow act as a muffle and mute the potentialy full-sound ?

 

1- Negligibly if at all.

 

2- Some people don't like them.

 

3- Yes? I'm not really sure what you mean.

 

4- Nope, not really.

 

Ellen

[Queequeg]

well, like Ellen says, some folks don't like 'em.

fingerstylists really don't need them.

aggressive strummers do.

Most players & listeners probably wouldn't pass the blind taste test & couldn't tell the difference just by listening. (Except of course the ones to take offense to my suggestion that they can't tell the difference. And those folks could probably spot the one with the pickguard at 100 yards just by listening.)

[bbarkow]

I've added pickguards to guitars in the past, and have never noticed even the slightest difference in tone.

[Freeman Keller]

Some of us just don' think we need one

 

[eflat]

Its purely a cosmetic thing AFAIK.

[Queequeg]

 

Its purely a cosmetic thing AFAIK.

 

hey, I labored for a few minutes trying to figure out what AFAIK meant.

only thing i could come up with is "as far as I'm koncerned"

I always feel as though I am lost in a sea of acronyms.

[Terry Allan Hall]

Well, as Willie Nelson (hallowed be his name! ) proves, pickguards really CAN be very handy!

 

 

Most don't affect the sound much, but the exception are those super-thick ones you find on older Gibsons, that are about 1/8" thick...took one of those thick suckers off one of my J-200s and it really made that guitar sound a lot better, so I used the old one as a guide and cut out a new 'guard out of thin tortoise-shell plastic.

[eflat]

hey, I labored for a few minutes trying to figure out what AFAIK meant. only thing i could come up with is "as far as I'm koncerned" I always feel as though I am lost in a sea of acronyms.

 

Haha yeah I get that sometimes. . .you do *know* it means "know" though, right?

 

The latest one to throw me was "ftw", which I looked up as "for the win" - it gets said a lot in the EG forum.

[Queequeg]

hey thanks. no, I really didnt. between the government and my IT job these acronyms are burying me. I just can't keep up.

if you had written ftw I would have just assumed you were dyslexic

[happy-man]

I've got my first guitar without a pickguard, a S&P parlor, and I can say that for me, it does impact the sound somewhat because... I'm cautious about how I play if I'm strumming with a pick. Maybe I'll loosen up eventually, but it's only a few days old, and sure looks pretty without scratches.

 

Scott O

[eflat]

hey thanks. no, I really didnt. between the government and my IT job these acronyms are burying me. I just can't keep up. if you had written ftw I would have just assumed you were dyslexic

 

Ha, now I had to labour with that one, but not for a whole minute

 

ftw/wtf right? good joke! ROFLMAO