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Originally Posted by wade63
Am interested in making wood PGs as OP. Worried about splitting later as the wood dries out. Is laminating to plastic a preventative? I've also cut PGs out of old laminated wood guitar backs but I have some solid wood I would like to use.
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That was my philosophy behind it. The woods I have used for pickguards are burls and they are all cracked to pieces so they would have to be laminated to something. Plastic is acoustically dead and won't shrink and swell like wood when glued to the top. So whether that idea has any merit to it or not I don't know but it's what I do, just in case.
In either case always glue a pickguard to the finished top, not directly to bare wood.