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Any of you guys play an Ibanez GB10?
Despite having a 175 and barney kessel, and despite a luthier in the forum claiming that ibanez is not good quality, the GB10 has become my favorite axe. So easy to play, amazing neck, helps that I had an amazing setup by local guru Bill Jancar.
However, the damn screws on the pickguard are driving me crazy. If I have any nails at all on the right hand, they get caught in the phillips screw slots or the edges of the screw.
I'm at the point where I'm either going to get a new pickguard and sacrifice adjustability and just glue the bridge pickup to the pickguard or - alternatively glueing a cover on top of the existing pickguard made of thin plastic, like that you see on acoustic guitars.
Anyone else have this problem? If so, how did you solve it?
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10-17-2023 01:00 PM
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install smaller head screws?
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Maybe put a tiny piece of painter's tape or electrical tape over the offending screw head.
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I tried vellum caps and it didn't work well. Tape would just end up sticking up and getting in the way...
Originally Posted by Gitfiddler
Don't think that would work. Originally Posted by wintermoon
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why not Originally Posted by jzucker
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How about swapping them for regular flathead screws? Or torx? Maybe your nails won’t catch then.
I did have a Japanese Gb10 for a short period, it had a great neck and sounded good… but something about the proportions of the body, weight and other design choices soon made me hate it. I traded it for a strat and that was that. The strat has a 5-way switch that I keep hitting but hey, at least no phillips screws, right?
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because then my nail will just catch on the rim of the hole as well as the cross-hatch of the screw Originally Posted by wintermoon
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If there is any indentation in either the screw hole, the rim or the screw itself, the nail will catch in it. I've tried a lot of variations... Originally Posted by frankhond
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I don't get my hand near those screws. You could get a countersink bit and carefully sink the holes a bit more to make sure the screw is a hair below the pickguard.
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I've already done that. My fingernails still sink into the hole. I need it to be completely smooth. Originally Posted by skiboyny
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You could try filling the "slots" with clear (or any color) nail polish. Build it up slowly.
It might work.
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Is this the 1st guitar you've owned w a screw through the guard?
I suppose you could just use clear packing tape like you said you use on f holes but that stuff can be a bear to get off the guard let alone a guitar's finish if you have to remove it later
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Ok it would be fairly unsightly but
If you can handle the aesthetics
I would use a piece of black gaffa tape
right across the pickguard ....
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Or alternatively
Remove the scratchpad completely
And stick the bridge pickup to the top
With blue tack or those 3m double sided
foam mounting pads
(Mind you I don't like scratchplates anyway)
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I've never had this problem but my picking hand is up over the end of the fretboard, so I'm really not anywhere near the screws. On my guitar, the screw heads were countersunk below the top of the pickguard so they did not protrude and I didn't catch my nails on them. So my thought would be seeing if you can countersink the screw heads just a bit further in so that they're flush or even a little below the surface.
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Fill the screw slots with wood glue. Do it incrementally and build up a slight dome on top of the screw head.
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I had the same problem. After all the excellent fit and finish on that guitar, the screws are a sore thumb. I ended up removing the pickguard and the bridge PU.
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We're going to first try some clear acoustic guitar pickguard material over the pickguard. But when that fails
we'll do this:
make a new pickguard, remove the pickguard height screw and glue the bridge pickup bracket to the new pickguard.
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Here's a rather expensive solution...GB15.
GB15 pickguard might not fit, even if you could locate one for sale in the U.S.
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One of my possible solutions is to buy an L5 pickguard, get rid of the height adjustment screw and glue the bridge pickup to the pickguard. I think that's probably the easiest solution.
Originally Posted by Gitfiddler
Here's a rather expensive solution...GB15.
GB15 pickguard might not fit, even if you could locate one for sale in the U.S.
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If you get to that point let me know, a friend who is a member here bought one recently he can't fit to his guitar he might let go. I'll point you in his direction. Originally Posted by jzucker
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i'm looking for the 7" version. There is a small L5 pickguard option. The full size one is too big. Do you know which one he has? Originally Posted by wintermoon
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Regular sorry
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Well, if you think you've got everything set where you're going to want it, getting the screw heads good and countersunk below the surface and then filling over the top with clear epoxy might work. That would give you a flush surface all the way across at the expense of any further adjustability.
Aesthetically those screws are the one thing that bothers me about the guitar. Everything is lovely except the hardware store look holding the bridge pickup on. I colored the heads of the screws black to make them a little less conspicuous.
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my luthier didn't want to use epoxy in case he had to undo it later... Originally Posted by Cunamara
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