How to remove the pick guard on your Guitar Hero Controller for under $1, basically free!

This works with only the original Guitar Hero Gibson SG Controllers..
You can remove the pick guard and give it a paint job, or whatever, but I hope you like my Instructable!

Items Needed:
Screwdrivers.


It is under $1.00 because you probably already have screwdrivers.

Step 1 Removing the back of the guitar.

Ok, flip over your guitar and remove all the screws on the back.

You have to unscrew the neck of the guitar too. There should be around 5.

Unscrew all the screws on the back, There should be something around 11.

When you finish doing that, move onto the next step.

Comments

[Gage987]

your controller looks like a knock off i can tell this because a real guitar hero controller has a switch that takes the whole top off

[cupojoe999]

not the controller for the first game. the first and second games guitars were all one unit that did not come apart. guitar hero 3's les paul model could come apart though. you could take off the faceplate and the neck was removable. guitar hero 1 and 2 used a gibson sg model, which is what is in the pictures. hes not using a knock off.

[the_burrito_master]

after you take it off spray paint it shiny black and then put it back on that's how it looks cool.

[sonic_dan]

just made a new guitar hero instructable :)

http://www.instructables.com/id/Guitar-Hero-Fret-Buttons-Mod/

[Spense09]

on the guitar hero 3 controller theres a button to take that off

[GorillazMiko]

Yeah well this is for Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II.

[buterSBob29]

whats a pick guard?

[GorillazMiko]

Okay, on real guitars, pick guards are... basically pick guards.. they keep the guitar from getting scratched by the pick. But on the Guitar Hero Controllers, they just looks cool.

[fireandshadows]

if they look cool, why did you take it off?

[GorillazMiko]

Because it looks even cooler.

[buterSBob29]

cool!

[greggles14]

is it just me or do you have two printers?

[GorillazMiko]

I have about three.

[!Andrew_Modder!]

lol wtf? where did this come from :-P?

[GorillazMiko]

Just have them. My dad. Also have a scanner, about 5 copy/ printer machines at work.

[!Andrew_Modder!]

lol same w my dad but hes got way more (he photographer xD)

[GorillazMiko]

My dad works for this printing company thing. No, not Kinkos. :P

[greggles14]

wow mines on the fritz at the moment lol

[MatrixEagle15]

i was just checking this out last night hahaha have you seen the led buttons one? i think im gonig to do both to my guitar hero 3 controller

[GorillazMiko]

Yeah, I wish I could do that. I can't though, don't have the stuff.

[Half Bite]

THIS INSTRUCTUBLE SO TOTALLY....... RULES 8) PEACE OUT

[GorillazMiko]

Yeah, you had all that trouble.. haha.

[iKill]

is it just me or does the guitar hero 3 pick guard just pop off...

[GorillazMiko]

I don't know, I don't have the Guitar Hero 3 Controller, that's why it says "This works with only the original Guitar Hero Gibson SG Controllers."

[Shifrin]

Wow, To bad I dont own guitar hero

[Thornburg]

What about spray painting it. You could have added that, making it like a red or something. Still nice job.

[GorillazMiko]

In the Instructable I already said that you can go give it a paint job or something. Glad you liked it. :-)

[Erik Lindemann]

Why'd you change the location of your frets? Not to be mean, but that seems really stupid. Otherwise, a great instructable for someone who had never thought of taking off their pick guard.

[GorillazMiko]

It's just like a joke I played on my friends. It's in my other Instructable.

[mrmath]

Step 1 talks about the screws, and unscrewing them all. Made me think of Anikin's famous line: "I killed them all. Not just the men either, but the women and children, too."

[GorillazMiko]

Hahahahaha.