Members Teranishi Posted October 22, 2006 Members Posted October 22, 2006 Help! Do I paint over it or try to just remove it?Suggestions.
Members Hudman Posted October 22, 2006 Members Posted October 22, 2006 Remove it. Use a hair dryer to heat up the glue and peel it off slowly. Don't get it too hot. Take your time or you can damage your finish.
Members guitarist21 Posted October 23, 2006 Members Posted October 23, 2006 Originally posted by Hudman Remove it. Use a hair dryer to heat up the glue and peel it off slowly. Don't get it too hot. Take your time or you can damage your finish. ... what he said. Ellen
Members RainsongDR1000 Posted October 23, 2006 Members Posted October 23, 2006 Did you say paint it???!!! Definitely remove it. Very simple, like the others said use a hair dryer and SLOWLY heat and peel off. ' When it's off you can remove the residual glue with Naptha (lighter fluid). You can then replace the pickguard with a stock one or a different one. You must likely can't just not have a pickguard because there will most likely be a "tan line" wher your other pickguard was. Check out this link for step by step instructions:http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier/Technique/Guitar/Pickguards/PeelGuard/peelguard.html
Members Teranishi Posted October 23, 2006 Author Members Posted October 23, 2006 Thanks for the help!
Members pipedwho Posted October 23, 2006 Members Posted October 23, 2006 When I got my last Takamine, there was a big gold 'Takamine' logo across the pickguard. When I got it home, the first thing my wife says was (ok, well second thing, and I think we all know what the first thing was), "That is hideous, I hope you can fix that."Well, thirty seconds later, after I peeled off the protective plastic transparency, no more hideous logo. Just a nice pristine feaux tortoise shell pickguard.
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