Fender Jazz Bass Guitar Copy

This is an extreme crop of a negative showing an old Fender Jazz bass copy I acquired in the early 1990's. It was refinished at some point and looked like this when I got it. It has since been refinished again when I painted it black. I have now decided to strip off all the paint and go down to bare wood and see what it looks like and then refinish it according to what I think will look the best. I plan on putting a new pick guard, one resembling a Fender Precision bass because it's one solid piece of plastic and will remove the metal piece where the knobs are located, which I think looks junky. I'll probably also put new pickups and tuning pegs on it, thereby improving it's sound immensely.