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Got this nice tort guard off of ebay recently and to be honest, it's one of the best repro celluloid guards I've seen in a while.
I'm a little ocd when it comes to imperfections, so this thing would be perfect had the seller/maker of the guard not haphazardly cut the notch above the trussrod off center. I asked if I could potentially have another one made, and the seller (soundcheck) from a store called "Primitive Parts" said "NO." and that if I wasn't happy to just send it back. Yeah...I'll deal with the imperfection.

I want to track down where this blank came from, and I have a suspicion it could've come from WDmusic, as they supposedly take the cake for best celluloid (the brown not the red printed) tort these days, but I've never seen pics of their finished guards on a jazzmaster. I really like the swirls and coloring on mine, and the fact that the contrast between the lighter swirls and dark is closer to vintage than AVRI/Warmoths ugly brown ones. It looks the part enough for me to not spend $300+ on a real vintage one, so if we can have a pic comparison of your torts vs mine perhaps it'll lead us to a pretty decent source for making our own without the overly inflated price tag.

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and here's how it compares to older and newer AVRI tort guards...

The tort on my CP Jag is surprisingly good. I know there is an extensive thread on OSG comparing the various makes of repro tort so recon you'll find all you need to know there

I think this is a WD guard someone has "aged" a bit.

That does look pretty similar to the tort duo guard I got off of WD.

I forget names. Many of the new ones I have had looked printed on. If your colors blur together, it's good. How red or brown varies. I have an old XII I want to patch but haven't been motivated enough to look for donor/scraps. It's pretty though.