Has anyone tried to just paint a pickguard instead of replacing it? I want a different color on mine that is not found on normal replacement pickguards. Any thoughts?

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I would think that the paint would scratch or peel over time unless you sealed it. It might be easier to find the color plastic you want and make your own. There are gobs of companies out there that make custom pickguards for a reasonable price.

I have had good luck in the past using the spray paint for RC car bodys from the hobby shop. it is designed to adhere to plastic really well. but regardless of what you use for a top coat it is going to scratch off eventually. if you got a clear pick guard and painted the under side like an rc car body it would be very effective. you can get some awesome colors of that paint also even chameleon

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I agree. I would find a sheet of plactic which is the color you want and then just cut into shape.

Greasy groove has a ton of different pickguards in crazy colors and patterns. I had an orange pearloid po guard for a while. If there is something weird you want, you can contact them and they can pretty much meet your needs.

ive repainted a few pickguards, using lacquer and enammel, the point was for the paint to wear...

my one was origionally a white going on yellow guard from its age...i used about 40 super light coats of the black and about 20 of clear lacquer...

i dont know if the paint i used was special as it was the cheapest spray paint i could find but after letting it dry there is no way in hell i can get it to wear! i sliped with a flat screw driver while putting it back on the guitar and it made a extreemly light scratch (the type you would get from running a pick across a normal board...

ive had it on now for about a year whith daily use and there is still not one bit of scratching or wear...

preperation of the surface is key, i too used to race rc cars and as i worked in a hobby shop, ive painted hundreds of bodies... if there is one spek of dust you will get a blemish... it took me almost the same time to clean and prepare the guard as it took to paint it... but once the first couple of coats are on its plain sailing... the trick is with the light coats...

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Christ, that sounds like A LOT of work, too much for me.. I dont even like having to take them off to get to the wiring, let alone painting it 20 times. I only shot my neck 3or 4 times with nitro laquer.
Though Im currently having the same questions with some pedals I built. A couple i use myself, a few i made for people. They dont look right with just a brick of metal with black knobs and no markings whatsoever on them.

i could have used less coats.... i wanted it to wear but not all the way to the white plastic, thats the only reason for the 60 odd coats

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I used acrylic paints on the Rocky pickguard and simple spray can flat paints for my Strummer pickguard.

The Rocky pickguard has a clear coat lacquer sprayed over it because I sure do not want that paint scratching off, the Strummer one has no coat over it because I DO want that paint scratching off (more Strummer authentic that way).