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Hi Terry, Adding a pickguard sounds like a fun idea! Self-adhesive pickguards can be a good option since they don’t require drilling.

I used a piece of holographic sticker cut to shape stuck to the front of the guitar I made in the late 70s:

Welcome back Bado.

I used mirror wrap for an entire guitar last year.

Thanks for the invitation. See below... 🙂

Also me on bass guitar: (Excuse the Spotify link...) https://open.spotify.com/track/0esDjPA17xjd8VyMjTM6Xe?si=2GWZYkkLQAaOiJeh6eJRLg

And this is the album of my world music group, where I play the oud and my friend Mischa Stevens plays wonderful bass: https://badoretimusic.bandcamp.com/album/black-soup

Thats me on double bass in a piano trio:

Old Man — Neil Young

Not really. You could buy a yard stick, or even a 2 ft rule and measure from 12th fret. Neither will be particularly accurate. 30"/ 32"/ 34" or 35", these are just rough numbers; all they mean is the speaking length of a string will not be shorter that the given number. Actual speaking length varies on the string; gauge and construction. Intonation is set by ear or tuner not measurements 👍

Thats encourging news. Any pics or a rundown of any setup you did?

I totally get it. I bought an Aria Legend Jazz for £60 from someone who got it, played a few times and forgot about in a cupboard. I put new Wilkinsons in it, a Fender Himass bridge, new pots and electrics, added a Fender waterslide decal for the hell of it, fine wire woolled the neck and fret ends for that smooth 'played in' feel and because now it's essentially part of me it's my go-to bass indoors and more often than not my live weapon of choice. It's hard to explain but because I put 'me' into it I could never part with it.

well there's the rub, I have no idea how it would work but it is pretty scruffy the way it is

As I'm an idiot I pasted this in the wrong chat. This is one way to cut a sheet of plywood down from 1440 x 660 for pieces for the 8" Basschat speaker. There are others but this does it in six cuts if you can stack the pieces, click on it to expand. If you have your own guide rail BUT it's not 1.3m long, you can also use cut 3 first, then cut 4, place them on top of each other to do cut 1. Still the same number of cuts. Apparently my circular saw will do 66mm of cuts with the blade at 90 degrees. It's a relatively cheap Makita (for Makita) https://amzn.eu/d/j6vA5Sf My guide is only 1m long so I do the same cut pattern as @tauzero. Your local timber merchant may have their own way to cut this. my local one has a sign adjacent to the very large table saw, saying this is highly dangerous equipment and under no circumstances tell the operator how to do his job So 24mm of plywood should be no problem and neither should 36mm of plywood (mmmmm...). It has an 80 tooth wheel on so it does very nice fine cuts and I have absolutely no idea if that makes a difference or not on the depth. If anybody can say for certain it's OK to cut 36mm of plywood without it destroying the 80T blade or motor? I'll have try when the weather gets better. Currently we appear to be doing our best to emulate Noah's flood in North Yorkshire. One day of decent weather and two weeks of rain and another week forecast. My poor dog never seems to have enough time to get dry from each walk

I think you’re right , now you mention it I think I remember a 66 jazz for sale somewhere near there

My guess would be that this is sufficiently niche that a refinish would probably cost more than it would add to the value unless there's a collector looking for exactly this. Is it even possible to refinish without losing the graphic?