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.:Thrasher:.
12-25-2005, 06:41 AM
i dont no what it stands for but if som1 tells me il prob remember.
Posted
12-25-2005, 07:33 AM
w/ plate means with plate...
Miek
12-25-2005, 09:30 AM
whaaaa?
Posted
12-25-2005, 09:32 AM
i presume, now dont go quote me on this because honestly i dont actually know, but i do believe that it has something to do with the pick guard maybe?
or with a plated top?
meh. something to that effect...
google it, maybe youll find it.

edit: why do you need to know, and where did you see/read it?
MRDuCran
12-25-2005, 10:31 AM
Yer, if you give us the context it was used in, it will be more helpful to us.
.:Thrasher:.
12-26-2005, 05:48 AM
Yer, if you give us the context it was used in, it will be more helpful to us.

soon im buying a guitar and in the description it said w/plate and i forgot what it meant
Diatonic Dissonance™
12-26-2005, 06:45 AM
Ah yes. The prefix "w/" is shorthand form of the word "with".

"w/plate" means it has a pickguard. Observe:

A guitar without a pickguard:
http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/be/d1/pr-Guitars_Basses-Gibson_Les_Paul_Standard_50s_Neck_with_Case-resized200.jpg

A guitar with a pickguard:
http://www.authenticguitars.com/images/2000%20Gibson%20Les%20Paul%20Classic%20.jpg



EDIT: The term "plate" is short for "scratchplate" which is the same as a pickguard.