I was trying to finish up a guitar over the weekend and ended up cracking the lid. Not much, but enough that I did a repair and clamped overnight just to be safe. The crack runs right through where you may normally find a pickguard.

It cleaned up nice and seems stable but was thinking about adding a slightly elevated pickguard over the area. The screws would attach the guard above and below the repair and possibly give it more overall stability. 

Anybody ever do this with a CBG? I'd hate to potentially kill some natural resonance but this guys going to be a lectric blues banger anyway.

Note to self:  Allway pre-drill everything, dumb ass.

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  • simple remedy that you and your family will enjoy...get an old 45 record  a tray for fishsticks a spaghetti strainer and oven mitts.. place tray in ..and strainer upside down  on top then lay record on top preheat oven at 200 low for  3 to five minutes record will get soggy looking place... strong construction glue 2 dual mixed compound on cbg the lay record centered to the box..the sides may fold over make sure you put a bit of glue there aswell. and there ya go...a pick guard with hole:) hope that helps. .Melodeeman

  • We need pictures. :)>

    • Hey Thomas. I wasn't sure how to post a photo on the forum here, so I just put a couple of photos up on my page. You can see it there. 

      • here  ya  go   ,   ill post yer pic  for  ya .

         

        3-string

         

        • How the heck did you do that? All I can ever get it to do is show up as a link to a photo and not the photo itself. 

          • a few ways  ..  i  actually   just  copied and pasted that  one .. 

              but   when  you  post  a response    there  is a  small menu   above   the  text   box   you  type in  .   in that  menu,  the    2nd   little    box    right beside   "link  "   , .  click  that , and you  can     upload them  from your  computer  .

             

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            • Ok, I see it now, thanks!

              I just got my nut and bridge done and strung up about an hour ago.  Sounding good! 

  • No ham sandwich yet, but now with pickguard. I was going to go the veneer route but found remembered I had some pickguard material tucked away in my parts drawers. I cut one out of a old white guard robbed from something or another. I hit it with a couple applications of rattle can hammered black and it turned out pretty cool. Almost looks like it belongs there.

  • I did one on this one here with iron on veneer, very cheap and easy http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/before-3?context=user
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