How do you clean a pickguard?

Subject: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Jul 18 - 02:25 PM

What should I use to clean my (plastic) pickguard? It looks dull and smudgy.

Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jul 18 - 02:42 PM

Carefully mask it off with masking tape, and use Unipol and elbow grease.
Don't leave the masking tape on for too long, remove immediately you are finished.

Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: GUEST,Jery
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 10:07 AM

I usually search out a bottle of strong old ale, or any ale exceeding say 8% alchohol, carefully lubricate my gullet with the entire contents, and then breathe very closely on the pickguard, in short sharp breaths, before wiping quickly with a cotton based household duster. Both pickguard and myself are always much better afterwards, in that one looks as good as new and the other just thinks he is.

Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: GUEST,paperback
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 07:36 PM

For bookcovers I use Blu-tack. Softened it first with your hands to make it pliable, then using a rolling type of blotting motion, with a little downward pressure, it will 'lift' the grime off.

I emphasize lift because Blu-tack works best by blotting, not rubbing.

Happily, it will even lift price sticker residue, a boon to my existence.

Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 10:49 PM

Dear Mr. Beans,

For over a hundred years...

Hydrogen Peroxde has been a standard cleaner for the white ivory keys on a piano keyboard.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

blue> It won't be over night, But the white keys from
30 days will smile like a gollem in a coal celllat.

Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: olddude
Date: 10 Jul 18 - 01:12 PM

I use car wax it’s perfect

Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jul 18 - 02:45 PM

Toothpaste is another goodie. Just normal toothpaste.