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Post subject: 1976 Mustang scratchplate/pickguard: Tortoiseshell possible?
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:05 am
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Just got a '76 Mustang, which I have to say surprised and impressed me with it's playability and sounds.
It's pretty much a standard sunburst, with some minor but unfortunate adjustment at some time to fit a humbucker at the bridge (cheers Kurt), but it now has the original pick-ups reinstated, with a tortoiseshell pick guard/ scratchplate. The scratchplate has the sticker on the back with the proper serial number (it also kind of 'fits' right) . According to all the history I can find, Mustangs in '76 had black three ply 'guards, after having white guards for a few years previously; certainly not tortoiseshell.
I know the sticker could've been transferred, but I just want to see if there was a possibility that this was one of those aberrations where the production line finds a few old 'plates at the bottom of the parts bin and uses them up anyway... anyone come across a mid seventies 'stang with tortoiseshell pick guard??


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Post subject: Re: 1976 Mustang scratchplate/pickguard: Tortoiseshell possi
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:41 am
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Likely a replacement pickguard. AFAIK, the tortoise-shell type was used only on the early instruments from the '60s that were finished in either Olympic White or (periodically) Dakota Red.

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