Does anyone know what this is?

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Does anyone know what this is?

Post by felixvaughn » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:13 pm

what is the white rectangular object that is on Mickey Baker's Jazzmaster?
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I have no idea what it could be.

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Post by windmill » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:18 pm

Price tag for the guitar ?
GG JM's would have been new when that record came out
Strap looks new as well. :)

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Post by felixvaughn » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:24 pm

I am thinking that it could be attached to the pickguard to prevent it from getting scratched.

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Post by Pacafeliz » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:25 pm

i guess he used it as a pick guard.

yes. only explanation.
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Post by cbrown » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:37 pm

Post-it notes, just in case he thinks of something he needs from the shops on the way home from the gig?

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Post by PJazzmaster » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:43 pm

cbrown wrote:Post-it notes, just in case he thinks of something he needs from the shops on the way home from the gig?
:D

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Post by PJazzmaster » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:52 pm

same on the 2 pics below, so, as already mentioned above, I also guess some kind of "archtop style" pickugard. Likely that he just "missed" that "Jazzguitar style strumming plate" plate on his fenders

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Post by PJazzmaster » Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:04 pm

or he simply needed a place to hide his "T@NZ secret" on all of his guitars :freako: :ph34r: ;)

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Post by johnnyyenagain » Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:49 pm

Might be that he anchored a fingertip or two sometimes when picking and liked the extra height?

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Post by rbitterlick » Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:49 pm

I'm late to the party on this one, but I have been stumped by this very question for years.

In my formative school years of the early 1980s I briefly knew a metalhead guitar player; a skinny guy who every day wore a Levi's jeans jacket with the sleeves cut off and no shirt underneath. Anyway, he was an unbelievable musician, and even as an 18-yr-old, he had a brain-spraining knowledge of the blues and western swing that still amazes me to this day.

He is long lost to time, as seems to happen with those truly intense ones we come in & out of contact with over a lifetime.

At any rate, I was listening to Wildest Guitar with this guy at one point, and he told me the credit-card-on-treble-side-pickguard was done for staccato effect. There was a story behind it that I don't remember because I was in an altered state of consciousness at the time. The few fellow guitar nerds I've known over the years who are into old black-label Atlantic records either opine that it's to protect the prone-to-wear anodized gold pickguard, or they simply have no explanation for it at all.

I really doubt it's a pickguard protector, because I just can't see a pro like Mickey Baker--who probably got his guitars for free--even knowing in 1959 that the guard on the new-model Jazzmaster had a propensity to wear quickly. Sorry, but I cannot envision him leaving a goofy-looking, homemade, vanity guard saver taped onto his pickguard for the record's photo session where he's wearing a nice suit and tie.

I've tried similarly taping a notecard onto my old Jaguar, but I get a nasal twang on the high E-string at best.

Anyone have an explanation for the notecard taped onto this Jazzmaster?

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