I finally made a proper pickguard for my Surfcaster

[mark123]

I have a bunch of extra Lollars around the house and figured I’d make a pickguard for the Surfcaster to fit a couple of them properly. The Kent Armstrong Lipstick tubes were pretty crappy so I got rid of them and finally had a day to get this going.



Whoo! These pickups are a HUGE improvement.

Now I’m going to have to get the original hardware gold plated.

I’m pleased with how the pickguard turned out. The BWB is much nicer looking than the WBW of the original pickguard.

 

[mark123]

Yee! These pickups give me tingles in me dingles.



Crappy playing with crappy iPhone mic but it makes me happy inside.

 

[StrummerJoe]

Looks and sounds great!

But sheesh...could you mention what p/u you used?

I NEED ANSWERS MAN!

🙃

 

[mark123]

Looks and sounds great!

But sheesh...could you mention what p/u you used?

I NEED ANSWERS MAN!

🙃

It’s a Royal T in the neck and Novel Foil in the bridge. The Gold Foil is humbucker sized but it is a single coil.

 

[StrummerJoe]

It’s a Royal T in the neck and Novel Foil in the bridge. The Gold Foil is humbucker sized but it is a single coil.

Very cool!

 

[Leonard Neemoil]

Great job, looks much better.

 

[mark123]

You know? It’s almost comical how much better Lollars are than stock pickups.

 

[renips]

Was it cnc or did you make a template and router? Looks good

 

[mark123]

Was it cnc or did you make a template and router? Looks good

CNC. I copied the original pickguard with my scanner and imported it into Vcarve. Then I got the pickup dimensions from the Lollar site and designed in the pickup cutouts. I also deleted the tone control which I disconnect on every guitar.