Pickguard adhesive
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 11:43 pm
I'm close to done with a multiscale baritone and, with the player for whom it is intended, I should probably put on a pickguard. I bought a sheet of "pickguard adhesive" from LMI. What I received was a sheet of 3M 467MP adhesive film. One removes one backing layer, attaches it to the pickguard, trims it to size, removes the other backing layer, and attaches the pickguard to the guitar. All well and good and very convenient. A thin, strong, transparent adhesive.
However, as I look as the datasheet for the adhesive, I can find no way to remove the pickguard later. This worries me. Eventually this pickguard will go the way of all flesh and some repair guy is going to have to figure out how to remove that pickguard. If I don't know how to do it now, how's he or she going to be able to do it in ten or twenty years (if this guitar lives that long and it's still wanted). I'd hate to think of the repair person trying to pry it off and gouging the spruce underneath.
Any advice or thoughts on a good way to attach a pickguard?
However, as I look as the datasheet for the adhesive, I can find no way to remove the pickguard later. This worries me. Eventually this pickguard will go the way of all flesh and some repair guy is going to have to figure out how to remove that pickguard. If I don't know how to do it now, how's he or she going to be able to do it in ten or twenty years (if this guitar lives that long and it's still wanted). I'd hate to think of the repair person trying to pry it off and gouging the spruce underneath.
Any advice or thoughts on a good way to attach a pickguard?