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I was wondering what the best way would be to fill the hole' date=' or holes?

The one on the binding isn't so bad, but the one on the top next to the neck pickup bothers me!

I've left it alone so far until I find out a good way to fill it? [/quote']

 

If your guitars are precious and you want it done right... I got nothing.

 

However, if you want it done quickly, cheaply, and effectively ...stick a toothpick in it and trim it off carefully with clippers or a razor knife. Then dab with appropriate colored marker or touch up paint. Works for me.

 

Here's my gold top before and after the removal... you can see the toothpick - I still need to touch it up.

 

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AXE' date=' I'd tell you where to stick that pickguard of yours but by the looks of it, there's already a Strat wedged up there. =D>[/quote']

 

OOOOOH!!!!!!

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I don't need a pickguard -- I don't scar up tops with my pick, and I don't rest my fingers on one -- so I take them off.

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I did put a pickguard on a guitar that didn't have one, after an idiot dug into the nice bear claw spruce top of one my acoustics with his careless strumming.

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Special tops-No

 

Bursts and solids-Yes

interesting...

 

Thinkin of it I'd hate to cover up a beatiful top...

 

I'm with Laney on the above quote

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And even more amazingly, the knobs become speed knobs and the strings wrapover..

 

Damn it!! If taking the pickguard of achieves all this, I'm getting rid of mine!!

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for the guys with the nice finish, and who don't want the holes, how about the Bobby Lee clear pickguards that screw to the pickup rings. I put a blue transluscent one on my robot and it looks pretty. Real pretty.

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Haha, this seems to be an entertaining thread. I'm not the most advance guitarist or the most knowledgable one but I will have to agree, it does depend on the guitar, the finish, and what you could do to the sound, that is if pickguards do change the sound. Anyways, I have an Epiphone SG Special myself but I decided to put a pickguard on it.

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