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Post subject: Italian tortoiseshell pickguards
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 12:57 am
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Fender sells "regular" brown shell pickguards for guitars and basses.

I've read on a recent Strat Collector article that some early 1980s "Strat" prototypes (like the 1980 Olympic White example shown below) came with gold hardware, a regular Fender bridge, Tele dome knobs and an unusual tortoise shell pickguard which looked very "flamey"; CBS referred this tortoise shell material as "Italian brown shell".

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BTW I believe Italian tortoise shell guards were used for the shortlived Montego and LTD hollowbodies in the late 1960s and the 1970s.

Does Fender sell Italian tort guards?


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Post subject: Re: Italian tortoiseshell pickguards
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 10:57 am
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chromeface wrote:
Fender sells "regular" brown shell pickguards for guitars and basses.

I've read on a recent Strat Collector article that some early 1980s "Strat" prototypes (like the 1980 Olympic White example shown below) came with gold hardware, a regular Fender bridge, Tele dome knobs and an unusual tortoise shell pickguard which looked very "flamey"; CBS referred this tortoise shell material as "Italian brown shell".

Image

BTW I believe Italian tortoise shell guards were used for the shortlived Montego and LTD hollowbodies in the late 1960s and the 1970s.

Does Fender sell Italian tort guards?

They would be the best


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