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I'm making a pickguard for a 1949 or 1950 Triumph.  The original pickguard is long gone.  Does anyone have a tracing of an original guard that you're willing to share?

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there is a 48 on eBay with a pretty good photo of its pickguard, it is a simple shape and should be able to duplicate easily from the photo

Take a cropped photo of a guitar with a pickguard and print it as large as possible. Measure the length of the pickguard and the guitar body in the printout then divide the pickguard by the guitar body. This gives you the length of the pickguard as a percentage of the body's length.

Now, measure your actual guitar and multiply it by this percentage to get the length of the pickguard.

Next, crop the photo around the pickguard, enlarge it until it's length matches the computed length, then cut out with scissors on the curves and an xacto knife and ruler on the straight edge.  Paste to a 1/2" piece of jig material and cut it out on the bandsaw. 

I found neither rubber cement nor double-sided tape holds the pickguard material to the jig so I use contact cement.

I cut the pickguard to within an 1/8" of the jig's edge then finish up with a StewMac bevel cutter bit on my router table. Ease it slowly onto the bit and move the material right-to-left.

If you're going to replicate the binding try to use the same type of plastic for the binding as the pickguard. If you use Weld-On keep in mind that there are different types for different types of Weld-On for different types of plastic and StewMac only sells one. You might check Axiom for celluloid which would be both authentic and easy to glue.

Here are a couple of photos...I hope it is the right vintage - also a photo of Elderly's binding jig, though a piece of wood and finish nails will also work:

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Thanks for the suggestions guys.

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