Anyone have a Blackbird pickguard???

[Blackbird]

I guess this'll be my last call for one, Gibson/Epi won't sell them as an available spare part...none on the bay....so if anyone recently bastard-ized a Blackbird and have the pickguard...I'm interested!!

[uwe]

Didn't Fräulein Rommel re-TBirdize her original Blackbird and in the process also exchange the pg? You might get lucky with her if she kept it and did not burn it on her heathen ritual funeral pyre for black hardware and non-chromed plastic ...

Uwe

[Blackbird]

You're right Uwe...Fräulein Rommel did...but I think (IIRC) she did something with the guard making "unrecoverable'....but maybe not?  I'll check back for her update...

[uwe]

"She did something with the guard making "unrecoverable' ...".

I'd imagine that to be be painful and therefore generally not recommendable.

[TBird1958]

 Sorry, I sold it to finance buying George's Black '77..........

The pickguard was the basis for this nice tat tho, so it really was more than a "1 trick pony"

[uwe]

I wonder how much Mark got selling the optigrab?

[Blackbird]

Sorry, I sold it to finance buying George's Black '77..........

The pickguard was the basis for this nice tat tho, so it really was more than a "1 trick pony"

I told my wife that if I ever got one tattoo....that would be the one!  I like it!  I forgot that you sold it....for some odd reason, I thought you had done some painting or burned it onstage or something!!!!!

[TBird1958]

 I did have it modified - VVTT controls! it actually was a very cool bass at that point. It sounded like a Rickenbacker 4001. I was really quite willing to sell it for George's black '77 tho, of all 'Birds 76's are my fave. Opportunity knocked    And as you can see I did actually mask off and paint the underside of the pickguard - It was complete with the optigrab! I kept the case tho, it was too cool to give up.