Burns traffolyte pickguard

[harrybob]

Hello all,

Does anyone know any methods for flattening a warped traffolyte pickguard. The one on my burns legend is quite wavy, does anyone know what causes this ? I thought traffolyte was heat resistant.

Thanks

Alun

[JimN]

I think that that substance is formed chemically, rather than by heat-moulding.

It's more like Bakelite or Paxolin than it is like nitrate celluloid or vinyl and is not thought of as thermoplastic.

[Billyboygretsch]

Heat will flatten it on a temporary basis but likely to return. I think it’s caused by the laminate shrinking at different rates

[harrybob]

Hmmm I think I’ll leave alone, hopefully as it’s 27 years old it won’t get any worse now - fingers crossed.

Thanks for your input guys

[Billyboygretsch]

Perhaps Eddie Cross might be able to make another - good luck