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I'll do it tomorrow. 👍

@gobasserk could you possibly measure from the 12th fret to the top edge of D/G half of the pickup on your shiny red and gold dream machine please. Just so I can best decide where to route my 424. Thanks 🙂👍

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It's just a bit different, and being in a Mod band it would fit. Appreciate it's not for everyone though.

I've been having lustful thoughts about a tort scratchplate on my Jack Casady (Pelham blue). I saw a similar coloured Gretsch guitar with cream binding and a tort scratchplate and it looked awesome.

This on my 424 would look great I think.

There's a seller on ebay/etsy in Canada that does plates in a lovely black paisley on a beige background. I was going to message and see if they have the sheets of it or just buy in the plates.

It definitely has a blue hue to it. I never used to like pearloid but I've lately started to come round to it. I think it can look terrible but the right colour on the right guitar looks great. Hell I even like pearl mint green now.

Well black pearl has gone from, 'Might look quite good', to, 'Nah, everyone's doing it' pretty quick. 😁

I might try black pearl, I've got the old one from when I did my Variax which I can lay on there to see there look. I'm trying to get away from off white body and black plate, but it just looks so good. Off white body and black pearl plate is a proper retro Yamaha looking as well.

While I'm gonna be making a scratchplate, it's the perfect opportunity to make something cool... ... although deep down I know that black works best with the white and chrome. So has anyone got any inspired thoughts on a different colour of material? My fretless P is practically identical in colour to the BB with a rosewood board and has a mint green scratchplate, which I really like, but I've done that, and it looks too polite for a BB.

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I had that thought too, but as I'll be making a new plate I could 'tweak' the design ever so slightly to give a bit more meat around that curve if needed, but still be BB, see? Si? Que? 😁

Yep, I can see that working well. It will also bring the EA part further away from the edge of the scratchplate and visually balance it better. It will look less tidy under the scratchplate, but that's kind of irrelevant I suppose.

Ha ha, no I've pulled it apart. 1, to give it a good clean and polish, and 2, to be possibly reverse the P pickup.

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Now for the fun bit. As I see it there's three options for a simple reverse P mod. Put the EA part below the existing DG part. Put DG part above the existing EA part. Or the simplest, and my preference to keep the core tone of the BB but with that reverse P vibe as no part of the pickup has moved drastically. Just flip the two parts over. I will need to make a new scratchplate to accommodate the reverse P which is no big deal and luckily the chrome on the reverse of the pickup ring is quite acceptable so I can just flip it over an countersink the screw holes. The front has slightly rounded edges where the back doesn't, but it looks fine in the flesh. Front, Back, Nothing will be irreversible, just flip the pickup, ring and refit the old scratchplate, and it's back to standard so I've no worries there. It will just have a large rectangular pickup route rather than a pair of smaller P ones. So do folks think this is worth doing, or am I just bored and stupid?

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Here ya go! Do they usually come in kit form? 😆 It's in very nice condition. A couple of tiny marks that will polish out and just one actual ding that has broken the paint, on the lower bout by the jack socket. I can scan the colour and mix up some paint to run in the crack and polish it out so it's no biggy. Apparently the bass never left the house and has rarely been played and it does look that way. The wood on the fretboard is rather nice and a bit oil should bring it out nicely. The worst ding.

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