How would you finish Roasted Swamp Ash?

[Nadir]

I'm thinking the grain on this body is so nice I don't want to hide it under a pickguard.

https://imgur.com/MwIjfMQ

But I have to mount the volume and tone controls and switch some way.

I had a damaged red tortoise pickguard and cut it into this:

https://imgur.com/yzOhEEz

It would cover just the rout for the controls and here I've laid it over the controls of another guitar I'm working on.

https://imgur.com/ZUWMJmo

Those arrow knobs are 90 years old and made from Bakelite!

They are the same knobs that would have been on a mid-1930's Rickenbacher Lap Steel. Kinda cool.

uhm ... not for me.
I consider the pickguard shape one of the distinguishing signs of the Strato and for me it is then an "untouchable" feature.

 

[Lewguitar]

uhm ... not for me.
I consider the pickguard shape one of the distinguishing signs of the Strato and for me it is then an "untouchable" feature.

We'll see. Just putzing around with something I made from a broken pickguard.

What do ya think of Paul Simon's parts-o-caster?

https://imgur.com/wnujAdq

 

[Alnus Rubra]

We'll see. Just putzing around with something I made from a broken pickguard.

What do ya think of Paul Simon's parts-o-caster?

https://imgur.com/wnujAdq

Nice use of an NF3 (wannabe) pickup.

 

[Lewguitar]

Nice use of an NF3 (wannabe) pickup.

Looks a little like a Duncan JB Jr. or Little 59 or something.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Looks a little like a Duncan JB Jr. or Little 59 or something.

I think so too.