Pickguard repair

[Jono Bolton]

My JV Precision has a pretty nice tortoiseshell pickguard, which I believe is the original as when it was being resprayed, we discovered it would have originally been sunburst. However, the pickguard has been drilled for an additional pot from when someone had fitted a Jazz pickup, and the hole for the P pickup has been enlarged pretty poorly and is a bit wonky. 

 

Is there anywhere/anyone who does pickguard repairs? As it's tortoiseshell I know it'll never be a perfect match but the pattern on it is much nicer than a lot of the cheap printed tortoiseshell available just now. 

[AndyTravis]

26 minutes ago, Jono Bolton said:

My JV Precision has a pretty nice tortoiseshell pickguard, which I believe is the original as when it was being resprayed, we discovered it would have originally been sunburst. However, the pickguard has been drilled for an additional pot from when someone had fitted a Jazz pickup, and the hole for the P pickup has been enlarged pretty poorly and is a bit wonky. 

 

Is there anywhere/anyone who does pickguard repairs? As it's tortoiseshell I know it'll never be a perfect match but the pattern on it is much nicer than a lot of the cheap printed tortoiseshell available just now. 

Now then…

 

I had a nice old Tort guard with the same issue.

 

I took some pictures of the tort, I sent the pictures to @TimAl who made some plugs…

 

they worked a treat - I can’t find any pics…

[Jono Bolton]

37 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Now then…

 

I had a nice old Tort guard with the same issue.

 

I took some pictures of the tort, I sent the pictures to @TimAl who made some plugs…

 

they worked a treat - I can’t find any pics…

 

That sounds ideal for the additional pot hole, and was pretty much what I had in mind. For the pickup hole however, my thought was that you would need to enlarge the current rout, then glue in a new piece and cut a new pickup hole out of it to neaten it up. It seems a lot of hassle now, having written it all down 

[AndyTravis]

Hides a multitude of sins…

[TimAl]

G'morning all,

Yes sir, I remember that plug Andy - I think it worked really well didn't it & I simply cut a few with slightly different diameters stepping in 0.2mm - something like that but it's definitely do-able Jono if you can simply send me a decent-ish photograph of the offending area taking from directly above.

Drop me an Email if it's of interest to me at: [email protected] 

Cheers & Happy Mon-yay! Ahem.
T

[Jono Bolton]

On 22/08/2022 at 09:41, TimAl said:

G'morning all,

Yes sir, I remember that plug Andy - I think it worked really well didn't it & I simply cut a few with slightly different diameters stepping in 0.2mm - something like that but it's definitely do-able Jono if you can simply send me a decent-ish photograph of the offending area taking from directly above.

Drop me an Email if it's of interest to me at: [email protected] 

Cheers & Happy Mon-yay! Ahem.
T

Sorry, I hadn't seen this reply until I was browsing through this section. I've decided not to go ahead with trying to restore the pickguard; I'd had the body resprayed and the tort looks rubbish with the new colour, so I'm going to stick the off-white one I've got.

[TimAl]

Oh no problem at all Jono - great news you've got a colourway you now like & if I can ever help in the future just shout!

Cheers
T