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Well here is one I made for someone but they did not get it so really. I don't need to get $500 but for $300 you can have this

I make them for real D'angelico's and other guitars that require something like that. I don't make L5 pickguards any more because they are easier and cheaper to simply by. I have probably made 20 D'angelico pickguards for New Yorkers, Ecels. and Style A and B's. Right now if someone wanted a deluxe New Yorker Pickguard with the layers of binding and proper tortoise material it would be $500 for sure otherwise it is not worth the effort. A simply 3 binding certainly less and a wooden pickguard is quite easy to make. Can do curly maple with one big white or black binding and not hard.

GHS roller wounds will do the same thing too.

You might find this interesting. I change the strings on the Heritage Johnny Smith I got been almost a month. This was Jay Wolfe's person Heritage. It had flatwounds but they actually sounded good I just decided to give it a set of Daddario 1/2 rounds. I like the lower finger noise and they get close to a roundwound. This guitar really sounds nice and warm has a wonderful depth of sound. So, I then got out the Gibson Legrand ( 2001 )and the Gibson L5 ( 2003 carved to be totally acoustic by custom shop) to have on the carpet to look at and then make some sound comparisons. In addition to sound comparisons, I want to just get a feel and look at the aesthetics. Frankly it is a tossup I will give the L5 a bit of a winner here for output sound and I think some of it has to do with the bigger body. Between the Legrand and the HJS I think they both sound great in a blindfold test I bet it would be spread all over which one sounder better. Here is the real way I look at this. The Legrand is worth I suppose twice as much as the HJS but purely from the looks of each I cannot say which one stands above the other. They both look great, and sound wise I say it is a tossup. What this tells me is that a good Heritage Guitar is right now a sleeper in terms of value. Probably won't make that much difference in our lifetime but 30 years from today I think they will stand out quite nicely. I remember when you could not give away a D'angelico non-cut guitar back in the 1980's and even into 90's. Now they are basically seen as getting out of reach for a nice one and no one is worried that it is a non cut only that it is a D'angelico. That is Heritage stuff today. I hope Heritage realizes this in the company and keeps at it. I have other guitars to compare to also but right now I will take these Heritage Johnny Smiths are the cream of the crop with anything. Way better than the 2 previous Gibson Johnny Smiths I had years ago.

This guitar plays wunderful smooth easy neck. I repair guitars and use to work with the late Bill Hollenbeck of the blue guitars builder and was around Bill Barker. The set up is perfect I did not need to do a thing. The sound reminds me of my 1971 Barker guitar and that is a surprise Barker my is a great guitar.

I just bought at special Heritage Johnny Smith Rose. Was made for Jay Wolfe as his personal guitar and has rose inlay on pickguard. This guitar is warm and resonate for sure a beauty. This my 3rd carved top Heritage I have another Sunburst Johnny Smith and a Ghost build D'angelico New Yorker. These guitars stack up with the best or sure. A real American Treasure they are way underappreciated and valued.