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Originally Posted by starjasmine
Thanks..
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04-03-2020 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by deacon Mark
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Can you post pictures of your guitar?
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Originally Posted by starjasmine
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Originally Posted by apell
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Originally Posted by rolijen
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Originally Posted by deacon Mark
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A couple close up pics:
Pic of neck pickup showing forward mounting screw, pickup cutout and adjustment screw notch. The cutout is shaped using the edge of a 2x4 wrapped in sandpaper. You can see how it perfectly fits a standard size humbucker. (The adjustment notch is not quite as precise due to freehand cutting with my Dremel tool).
Bridge pickup cutout and adjustment screw notch.
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Originally Posted by rolijen
Thanks again for the great pictures. Looks good.
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Here's the guitar..
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Wow! She’s a beauty. Good luck. To avoid sympathetic vibrations, I typically use plastic or rubber tubing as a spacer under the front mounting screw (between guitar top plate and underside of pickguard). Then, I affix self-adhesive black foam to the underside of the pickguard to rest against the pickup mounting rings.
This stuff is a miracle. I buy it at the shop my wife goes to for her craft supplies. Adhesive backed. Fairly dense foam. Many uses, but it eliminates the annoying vibrations from a pickguard.
Note tubing used as spacer (Screw loosened to show spacer). Be sure to check to ensure the spacer doesn’t react with your nitro finish.
Here is a pic of the foam between pickguard and the pickup ring. Look closely and you’ll see a thin strip of black foam right in the center of the photo. Works amazingly well to make the pickguard rock solid and not permit buzzes or unwanted vibration. I typically run it along the whole edge of the pickup cutout. Invisible from above.
Roli
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Originally Posted by helios
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Originally Posted by rolijen
I was really lucky to run across this guitar. THe more I play it, the more I realize what a find it is. And it is in awesome condition (barring the missing pickguard, which is no biggy....I play fingerstyle anyway.)
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The last guitar on my bucket list is an L-4 CES. Your ES-775 is beautiful. I love the neck pickup placement being like the L-4. Nice guitar.
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Originally Posted by rolijen
I really lucked out on the ES-775...The internet is a fine thing..
thank you for the input
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I know this thread is a couple years old, but I came into an ES-775 without a pickguard and never saw an obvious solution posted and OP never responded to my DM.
I'm in NYC and don't have access to many tools to make my own but I gambled on an L-4CES Reissue pickguard that it would fit and it does. Specifically Model Number PG 20312 from Pickguard Planet: Gibson "L" Series Hollowbodies - Pickguard Planet
PG 20312: GIBSON L-4 REISSUE
2 hum, 3" gap between pu cuts, dimples
for pu screws, 1 screw by neck, tip of
guard to top of neck pu cut measures
7/8"
This info is in case someone in the future has the same question as it was kind of a pain to figure out. I have to run to the hardware store for a screw and some glue before I can get a perfect alignment for a photo but it's kind of a relief as I haven't been able to play to my full ability on this thing as I anchor my picking hand to the pickguard.Last edited by 11SecretHerbsAndSpices; 12-18-2022 at 12:28 PM. Reason: Didn't need to have hte imgur link
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