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 J-185. Later, this was re-released as a J-180 by Gibson. There’s also an Epiphone SQ-180 which comes under the same family name
The pickguards really after the look of the guitar as they’re so large! The twin swooping scratchplates are often known as moustache style and you can see why.
The brothers are known to have black Gibson acoustic guitars but sometimes have sunbursts or natural finishes. The traditional choices for their pickguards were Tortoiseshell, Cream, White and Black.
Would your Acoustic suit a pair of Everly Brothers Moustache scratchplates?
They can suit EJ-200, EJ-300, SQ-180 J-180 J-185 and many Takemine acoustic guitars or even dreadnaught acoustics. As we make them bespoke we can offer a custom design service OR work from your card templates!
To get started get a price for an
Everly Brothers pickguard for your guitar
We sell a few variants of tortoiseshell so you can choose for yourself which shade you like best
To get started get a price for an
Everly Brothers pickguard for your guitar
Here’s us removing, designing and fitting a Guild F25-12 with our custom Moustache Pickguards. The job was to cover over a natural blemish in the book-matched soundboard which the custom didn’t like. The perfect job for a pair of huge pickguards!
