Tooth picks. One of the oldest tricks around. Cut them flush . When u want to replace the pg screws right back in. You can probably dab the tooth pick ends with dye to hide them. Ask a luthier.
Remove the screw. Get a wooden toothpick. Very gently push in don't force. Snip flush gently with wire cutters . Re screw the stripped piece gently into the hole/tooth pick. Screw in till flush but don't force. Tooth pick will expand and voila--good as new.
My Washburn J600 came from the factory with extra holes where they had tried and missed setting the pick guard. The "floating" junk pickup it came with was screwed to a column of wood and rubber that was screwed to the top. Putting the Benedetto S6 on the pick guard required me to drill one more hole in the side to get the angles and heights right for me. Ran the wires through one of the holes left from the original pup column.
Lots of holes, not a luthier. Not an expensive worth preserving guitar. Ideal for me to get a glimmer into pickup and pick guard mounting geometry. Fun to play. No one notices all the holes but me.
I would see if you can find some wooden golf tees. Lots of them are made of maple (same as the 575).
You can whittle them down to size and raw wood, and probably tap them in without even using any glue, then just find a little stain to match them...actually, try the stain (or paint first), on the raw wood, before the whittling process.
PS: After reading the other posts, maybe you'd be just as smart to leave well enough alone. It will have no effect on the instrument. (I have an acoustic Benedetto-type with extra holes in it, due to replacing the cello type tailpiece with a sturdier type. I'll never sell this gtr. so I've never bothered to plug them.) And putting back the pickguard would be easier than re-drilling holes, etc.
Last edited by goldenwave77; 08-30-2015 at 02:19 PM.
On a cheap Epi, for fixing such holes left by a pickguard or former Tailpiece, I use round toothpicks and finish with a bit of wax pen to match the color and a small nail polish drop to seal it somehow. On a American quality guitar like a Gibson or Heritage I would simply put the screws back so there are no holes and leave the pickguard in the case should you want to sell the guitar later.
If you want to reuse these holes again I do not think it is a good idea to put any type of glue in the screw holes. The best way to hide these is to have the repair be reversible. Whenever you have multiple ways to do a repair always choose the option that is the easiest to reverse. The next owner may want a pick guard. I have had to reuse screw holes before and redrilling plugged screw holes is a pain. It is easy to clear out W B putty. Matching the finish is also better with a well matched color in the putty. Plugging the holes keeps grime from fouling the holes. Even if you lose the screws you can get more.
Last edited by Matt Cushman; 08-30-2015 at 09:46 AM.
I'm not sure why you think it's such a serious problem. I'd leave them alone, if it were mine, because someday, someone might want a pickguard reinstalled, being a normal part of the guitar. If it's something you are unable to endure, then a wooden matchstick, carved and tinted to match would do the trick. They're typically softer wood than a toothpick, making them easier to remove at a later time if desired. If at all possible, avoid the glue. If not possible, use watered down carpenter's glue. I'm not a professional luthier, but have plugged a few screw holes. Of course, as suggested above by Matt, leaving the screws in is an option too.
Thanks, citizenk74! My audience always achieves that calm, glassy-eyed look, but never applauds.
Klatu - That's a Carr Mercury. The Rambler is a step up in power. I never played through a Rambler. The Mercury has an attenuation feature that lets me cut the power down to 1/10 watt. My neighbors in the building think that's a fantastic feature.
I like the amp a lot, but I will say it is not the perfect clone of a Fender blackface that I thought it would be. (My bad, not Carr's. Carr never claimed that.)
The Mercury has got it's own thing. And it's beautiful, clean or driven. But it doesn't really have that super high-end glassy sparkle of a great old blackface. And I kinda wish it did, but that's a different amp. This one is pretty much perfect for my home situation though.
Based on what I have read in the OP,
1. timing and vocabulary of phrases
2. Tunes with basic chords and timing
3. timing
Or in other words:
Learn licks, learn tunes, then just enough theory...
Comping actual tunes,
developing a good ear,
improvising pretheory.
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That's a different subject, changing to a lower gain tube for a sonic reason. I was speaking more about someone who has a tube go bad or they buy a used amp and just replace everything just to start...
I wasn’t claiming it was the same thing, but widening the discussion regarding Shearing and the guitar. Sorry I didn’t exactly reply to your subject. I thought it might be of interest to some.
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Thanks Rob. The Mairants chart you linked appears to be an arrangement for two guitars and a vocalist. Why do you say three guitars? In any event, the arrangement I was asking about has piano and...
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