Jono Bolton Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 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… 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono Bolton Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Hides a multitude of sins… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimAl Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono Bolton Posted September 12, 2022 Author Share Posted September 12, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimAl Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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