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A Gibson Dove acoustic guitar, with an ornately-decorated tortoiseshell pickguard.. A pickguard (also known as a scratchplate) is a piece of plastic or other (often laminated) material that is placed on the body of a guitar, mandolin or similar plucked string instrument.
In 1976, David Schecter opened Schecter Guitar Research, a repair shop in Van Nuys, California. [1] The shop manufactured replacement guitar necks and bodies, complete pickup assemblies, bridges, pickguards, tuners, knobs, potentiometers, and other miscellaneous guitar parts.
This is a list of the 91 original (pre-war) Martin D-45s made by C.F. Martin & Co. between the years 1933 and 1942, generally recognized to be the most desired, and highly valued, acoustic guitars ever made; in American Guitars - An Illustrated History, author Tom Wheeler describes them as "among American guitar's irreplaceable treasures". [1]
The Hummingbird Artist model is quite different. It is a Guitar Center exclusive release. It has the body shape and forward shifted bracing of the Songwriter, only in mahogany. It does not have a Hummingbird pickguard (it uses a modern sculpted pickguard instead). An L.R. Baggs Element Active pickup system is also installed.
The pickguard is one of the most distinctive features of the SJ-200. On standard models, a vine-and-flowers design is etched and painted into the pickguard, although custom-ordered guitars may feature a different design. The SJ-200 was the first Gibson with an engraved pickguard but was later followed by others such as the Dove and the Hummingbird.
The B-45-12, a 12-string edition guitar introduced in 1961, was the first B-45 model guitar available and the first B series overall. The B-45-12 had a mahogany body and neck, spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, and a cherry sunburst finish, and was made with "round" shoulders for the 1961 – 1962 model year and "square" shoulders until the end of its production in 1979.