Colbert guitar!

I got this idea yesterday when I was talking to my fiance on the phone and I took off this little sticker that's been on my JReynolds Fender Strat lookalike guitar for a really long time and it left a little sticky spot right under the strings on the pickguard, because thats where it was, and I thought "that sucks, I need to put another sticker on there!" and for some reason I thought an American flag would be the best thing, since I'm a proud American and I was thinking of somewhere I could get a star-spangled sticker of some kind and Colbert's book I AM AMERICA came to mind.

After flipping through the pages for something funny and easily removable, I had the crazy idea to cut out the first and last pages, the ones with the red and blue 'facing Stephens' pattern all over them and I thought hell I could probably cover the whole pickguard with that stuff. Bitchin! So that's what I ended up doing!

I cut those pages out of colbert's book and took the originally all-white pickguard off and cut the shape into the pages and used lots of really smooth and tight packing tape to secure it piece by piece and all the way around the edges, to the bottom of it. It's actually two large pieces, half the pickguard covered with one page. And then i had to cut and tape down Stephen around the inside edges of all the holes for the knobs and the pickups and poke holes for all the screws.

The pickups originally had white covers on them but the fit was a little too snug with them on so I left them off and decided they look just as good black. The pickguard is completely coated with smooth packing tape to make sure I don't rip the Colbert paper while thrashing away on mad licks and riffs and jams and rock ftw.

-TOM!

PS: I will be sure to purchase an extra, un-desecrated copy of I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!) to go up on a pedestal, to make sure not to anger Colbert with my unapproved cutting of material from the book.