White Scratchplate Materials: 17 different types of white (including parchment, mint, and cream) pickguard sheet materials to choose from! We have well over 120 different sheet materials available, and it can be intimidating to select one that’ll refresh your guitar or add that final touch of class. Some variation of a white pickguards go […]
Different types of black pickguard materials We have well over 120 different sheet materials available and it can be intimidating to select one that’ll refresh your guitar or add that final touch of class. Black pickguards go well with almost every colour of guitar- and with 11 different shades, we have a huge variety to
Celebrating an iconic set of pickguards as used by The Everly Brothers Both Don and Phil Everly are known to use their beautiful Gibson Guitars with their unique star fretboard inlays and twin moustache pickguards. Gibson released a model specially for them named the “Everly Brothers Flat Top” which was based upon a Gibson
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A quick celebration of a particular pickguard that Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy favoured… …the acrylic mirror pickguard! Most famous for using his trust Fender Precision Bass, Phil also sported an Aria Pro II TSB, a Rickenbacker 4003 and an Ibanez Blazer amongst other but with the mirror guard where possible! There’s a
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Connor Ball, bassist for The Vamps, got in touch with us asking for something a little special for the 10 Years Of The Vamps – The Greatest Hits World Tour We created a one-off scratchplate for his Stingray Bass! With a bit of co-design with Connor he chose the text, font and colours for his
The 3 different Bevel types We offer different edge bevel options for your custom scratch plate and with many of our sheet materials, this is a chance to show off the ply layering! Classic 45° edge Roundover Edge Bevel 90° Edge Bevel To
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Turbo turnaround! We’ve added a nitro boost to our turnaround time! Send us your old scratchplate / pickguard, and we’re now aiming to get your new custom guard made via our new turbo turnaround and on its way back to you the next day. Our replacement scratch plates / pick guards are guaranteed to fit
Turbo turnaround! Epic news- fantastic superfast 24-hour guitar scratchplate service! Read More »
We offer a Foil Shielding service on our pickguards…but what the hell is that?? tl;dr – Foil pickguard shielding is a simple stick-on foil that can be added to the rear of suitable pickguards, it helps reduce electrical humming that can appear in guitar circuits.
Pickguard Shielding Explained! 4 considerations to destroy all hum, forever! Read More »
Your Pickguard is Unique! Here at Tiny Tone, the most common question people ask us when placing an order for a custom scratchplate is along these lines: ‘Hey, I have a standard Fender Strat[or insert other make/model as applicable- we’ve had this enquiry about literally everything]- do you have a template for this already as
Here at Tiny Tone, we specialise in handcrafting upgrade custom guitar and bass pickguards (or scratchplates depending what you call them). We’ve started this blog to share a bit of what we get up to, how we work, and to give you an insight into the processes of our workshop here in Manchester, UK. Starting
There will be a interruption to our normal service, so before times runs out;
Post your custom pickguard orders in to us by the 1st of September to ensure we can get one last batch in!
(Pedals, custom wiring and blank sheets, business as usual)
Steve has picked up a new job and is leaving Tiny Tone so for the meanwhile I’m stopping custom pickguard orders. This leaves just Jack here
Read more about it on our blog including a note from Steve Click Here
Closed for a week or so!
Normal work will resume on the 18th Sep once Jack and Steve are back from holidays,
Please feel free to place new orders we’ll catch up and chat to you then
Existing orders, some are still on their way to you – thanks for your patience! Hang tight, we’ll get your goodies to you
Jack and Steve
