How To Fix Guitar Pick Guard Rattle

In this video, I use a small hand-held diamond tipped tool to clean up the screw holes for the pickguard, the output jack, and the bridge.Show more

When these guitars are built, they just lay a pick-guard on the guitar, and run screws thew pickguard holes, and whatever happens underneath the pickguard, stays underneath the pickguard…

That means theres a lot of wood shavings, and chips of finish, that remain trapped underneath your pickguard, and this allows your pick-guard to rattle.

Also, when the screws go into the wood, they leave the surface of the wood with a pimple, that wont allow the pick-guard to lay flat on the guitar.

So i gently grind away the screw hole pimples, by hand, using a very small abrasive tool, so as to minimize the chance of damaging larger surface area of finish,

for example sanding block would be obvious choice on unfinished raw guitar wood, but on finished, it would not work.