Have pickguard, will play
The transparent pickguard arrived (quite a few days ago actually!) and is much better with the paint than the original white one they supplied. I might ebay the white one – nothing wrong with it at all, it just doesn’t really go with the paint as it would end up covering up a lot of it! – so better for someone else to be able to use it probably, otherwise it will end up just sitting around gathering dust.
This is the new one:
It’s a slightly different shape and size to the one supplied – only a few mm but enough to make a difference that they are not exactly interchangeable – as the body doesn’t have pre-drilled holes though, it is just a case of drilling the holes for the new one instead of the old one.
There are now 4 more (thin) coats of lacquer on the body and it finally looks like it is getting there – actually shiny/glossy on parts where it wasn’t before – still needs another few coats but is definitely better.