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How do you clean a pickguard?

07 Jul 18 - 02:25 PM (#3935965)
Subject: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: Cool Beans

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


07 Jul 18 - 02:42 PM (#3935971)
Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: John MacKenzie

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.


08 Jul 18 - 10:07 AM (#3936073)
Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: GUEST,Jery

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.


08 Jul 18 - 07:36 PM (#3936161)
Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: GUEST,paperback

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.


08 Jul 18 - 10:49 PM (#3936182)
Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

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.


10 Jul 18 - 01:12 PM (#3936500)
Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: olddude

I use car wax it’s perfect


10 Jul 18 - 02:45 PM (#3936524)
Subject: RE: How do you clean a pickguard?
From: John MacKenzie

Toothpaste is another goodie. Just normal toothpaste.