Make a DIY Custom Guitar Pickguard

Here’s a process video of how I make pickguards for vintage archtop guitars. This is a much-abbreviated look at the major steps in making these little works of art. Archtop guitars, favored by Jazz and Classic Country guitarists for decades, originally came with pickguards made from some early and unstable plastics that deteriorate after many years, and this deterioration can actually ruin the guitar the guard is mounted on. The gasses given off while the old plastic disintegrates will tarnish m