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Hi everyone. Here is my current Rickenbacker pride and joy. As you can see I changed the tailpiece for a more vintage vibe. Now I'm considering adding gold pickguards and truss rod. What do you think? Am I nuts? Any advice would be appreciated.

If it floats your boat, go for it. It should look prett cool!

I don't know if you're nuts or not, but I agree with what Paul said. It's your guitar, fix it up any way you want

Gold guards and nameplate look very nice with the Montezuma Brown finish in my view.

It is a bit of a trade off, however, in that the white guards and nameplate accent the fretmarkers better.

Nice geet

I've always liked the gold guards with Monty myself

Good point Peter, hadn't thought of that. Does anyone have a photos of another monty (or fireglo) with gold guards? I'd probably get the oven knobs too...

i have to say its just my opinion i like it just as it is.im not a gold fan but it your guitar and do with it what you will.

black trc and pg!

montezuma wrote:Good point Peter, hadn't thought of that. Does anyone have a photos of another monty (or fireglo) with gold guards? I'd probably get the oven knobs too...

Lots of Montys here, gold & all: http://www.rickresource.com/phpBB3/view ... &start=315

Thanks for the link John! That settles it, I'm going for the gold! Now where to find a gold TRC

Pickguardian can paint yours to match.

I'd go for the gold.

whojamfan wrote:Pickguardian can paint yours to match.

Thought about going the gold route on my 1997 until I realized you can't just back-paint a TRC without it being one with raised lettering. In March, 08, I wrote Tony D. at Pickguardian about this and here is what he said:

"Unfortunately, we cannot make truss rod covers, even blank ones, due to copyright restrictions. If you had a raised-letter TRC, we could have painted it Gold and gone over the raised portion in Black for $15. Since yours is a vintage style, there's not much we can do."


Doug, I can't tell what type of lettering you have there but if it's back-painted (vintage), I'll be interested in how you get past this obstacle without paying through the nose.

I have the modern raised lettering on my trc. I guess I'll have to decide if I want the vintage style or the modern trc. Of course finding either one won't be easy.

montezuma wrote:Of course finding either one won't be easy.

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