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Does anyone know where I can get large sheets of layered pick guard material. I need a piece of tortoise shell laminate 12.5" square for a Ovation Deacon pick guard.

Andrew

Stewmac has large sheets, but I'm not sure they have them that big.

http://www.wdmusic.com/pickguard_material.html
Best to get an account first or find someone who has one.

David King wrote:http://www.wdmusic.com/pickguard_material.html
Best to get an account first or find someone who has one.

HOLY plastic and celluloid batman, THAT is expensive!!

ok, it still is enough for a lot of pickguards, so I guess it's actually a good price if you actually have a constant production of high grade instruments that requires pickguards, does the chinese make good pickguard materials? I've seen a lot of celluloid pickguards at reasonable prices, had not compared to this prices yet, they sell blanks enough for a proyect.

It's very difficult to find sheets that are wider than 11". WD is a wholesale outfit, the prices listed on their website are "retail" prices.
If you can skew the pattern a bit to fit on a narrower sheet then perhaps this would work for the OP:?
http://www.grizzly.com/products/Pick-Gu ... oise/H6392

Otherwise it will be necessary to create a lap joint to "extend" the standard sheet for some inconspicuous extremity.

One fun option is to buy a normal WBW PG sheet, rough it up with 220, and pour your own home-made tortoise concoction on top of it.
Find an epoxy that plays well with transtint and mix up a clear batch and an amber/red/brown batch (I'd probably start with a West Systems slow cure, 105-209). You'd need to vacuum the bubbles out completely and possibly thin it out with 10% acetone to get it to "do it's tortoisy thing".
I've seen some really gorgeous T-shells done this way. I've never tried it and I imagine that it takes a lot of practice to get it looking right but if I were serious about using T-shell that's what I'd do. I've seen a lot of really horrible looking pick guards that cost way too much.

David, You solved my problem. Must have had a brain fade to not think about skewing the PG on the blank. I reckon it will just fit on a standard StewMac blank at 11 1/4" wide. And the grizzly ones you identified are 1/2" wider so they will definitely do it.