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1966 Harmony Special Addition Silhouette
Silvertone  model 1488.

~ Inspections, work, Info and Progress Pages ~
~ Rear Pickguard Screwhole Body Repair ~
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As all old plastic pickguards with an acetate componant do, ....this pickguard had shrunk about 3/16" on it's longitudinal axis and commensurately on it's other 2 dimensions of which thickness is negligible.  This puts the screw holes of the pickguard approx 3/32" out of alignment with the original screw holes.  Over the years this slow shrinkage of the pickguard tilts the screws in their body holes, tilting the body holes inward.  In places where the factory screwholes are next to body cavities, the screw hole will cave-in inward IF the body meat is not thick enough to prevent same.  The body's rear pickguard screw on this guitar did not have enough meat so the screw hole caved inward as shown below.
The screw hole was permantly doweled by glueing a round toothpick into the hole.  Fine sanding wood sawdust from a clothespin was then created to mix with glue to make a putty to shore up the caved-in inward meat of the body.  In that end of the body cavity, the texture of the wood was rough with factory router chatter;  So the texture of the chatter was matched upon the filler putty.  Acrylic paint was custom mixed on a pallet with glue to make a permanant paint that chemically matched the glue, and applied to the repair.

The cream white colors in the cavities in the pictures below are the residue of the factory's sprayed-on polish prior to buffing the body but of course not the cavities.  The tan colors around the screw holes are factory sawdust that non-permanantly stuck to the factory's not fully cured paint.  The sawdust would brush off, but I carefully leave it intact as evidence of original factory proceedures, residue and pristine condition of the guitar.

A digital camera can see and reproduce many more shades of color than the human eye can discern;  And although the camera shows a slight difference in color of the repair, the repair is virutally undetectable by eye.
Rear screw hole repaired and pickguard installed.  White dust is part of work being done.