Hi. I'm new to the Gibson forum and happy to be here. I do guitar repairs and have a small shop and I have a question about a lifting pickguard on a beautiful Songwriter 12 string.
The guard was attached from the factory with what appears to be a double sided thin tape. The guard was lifting off around the edges and is made of a fairly soft, flexible tortoiseshell color plastic. I figured that it was not going to stay down unless I could flatten it.
I removed it - it peeled off easily. I peeled off the sticky tape / glue residue and cleaned the guitar top with naptha. I cleaned all sticky stuff off the guard with naptha too.
Then I put it between a couple of glass plates and then in my oven at 150 degrees F. for an hour and a half. I let it cool slowly. I thought it would flat and be easy to re-attach but NO!
It immediately began to curl up again.
Any advice on getting this guard back on is much appreciated! Thanks.
