Musicmaster II pickguard same routings as Mustang PG?

Maik · Post by **Maik** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:23 pm

Hello,

IÂ´m new here and just got a question. Please apologize my bad English, IÂ´m from Germany, hope you understand, what I write.

I bought a `78 Fender Musicmaster body with only a neck-pickup routing. It has a such a pickguard:

http://www.jimshine.com/musicmaster/195 ... guard1.jpg

Now I wanna modify it to this style:

http://www.guitarsandeffects.com/guitar ... te_001.jpg

Mustang style pickguard and controlplate.

Now my question:

where can I get such a pickguard (Mustang shape with only neck-pickup routing)?

Does a mustang pickguard fit my musicmaster, especially is the mustang`s neck-pickup position the same as the musicmaster`s?

Thanks a lot for your answers!

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:29 pm

I ended up just cutting off the control plate section and putting on a metal mustang one, HOWEVER I still had to route the control cavity a bit to get it to fit in there with that knob placement.

Maik · Post by **Maik** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:36 pm

Cutting off the control plate section was what I thought of, too. But I just wanna change tu that Mustang pickguard because I like the round form better than the original one-piece musicmaster pickguard.
Well, I will think abot it.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:39 pm

i did it with my '78 and they fit fine. i had to fill in the screwholes obviously, but apart from that there was no trouble.

original:

replacement (far left):

try ebay.com, they come up for sale fairly regularly there if you're patient.

Maik · Post by **Maik** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:57 pm

Stewart,

yes, that`s it! Exactly what I want. What year is your Musicmaster made? What year is the new pickguard of?

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:10 pm

the body and neck are '78, everything else is early 70s.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:20 pm

Oops, Stewart is totally right, I remembered I couldn't use one because the body was discoloured under the guard.

You can see it in this photo of a photo...

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Maik · Post by **Maik** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:32 pm

What about that site?

http://pickguards.us/pricemusic.html

Musicmaster 1972 or 1968 should fit, shoudn`t it!?

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:45 pm

should do, but i don't really know if there was any difference between them in those years. i don't know what they mean by a '1972 duo sonic' either. the guards were just mustang guards, and they stopped making the duo in 1969.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:01 am

Seems to me that all the CBS 65-7X models use the same size guard until they went to the 78 one piece. I have owned several model years. SHow pics, Maik! (At first I thought he was Malik).