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Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby harrybob » Sun Jul 31, 2022 11:49 am

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.

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Re: Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby JimN » Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:33 am

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.
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Re: Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby Billyboygretsch » Sun Aug 07, 2022 5:46 pm

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

Postby harrybob » Sun Aug 07, 2022 8:34 pm

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

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Re: Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby Billyboygretsch » Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:56 am

Perhaps Eddie Cross might be able to make another - good luck
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Re: Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby harrybob » Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:21 pm

It would seem he’s no longer making them :(
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Re: Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby TIM-W » Fri Aug 19, 2022 3:53 pm

remove the pickguard from the guitar and remove pickups and controls.
get two pieces of plain furniture board ,big enough to cover the pickguard.
place the guard in a bowl of "warm" water for a few minutes to soften it,
lay the guard on one piece of board and lay the other board on top.
place a weight on top and leave to cool, that should do the trick.
I have a 1965 Marvin( from new) and a reissue Bison and have used this method on both
with great success.
It was Barry Gibson who told me how to do it.
Best of luck.
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Re: Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby harrybob » Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:30 pm

Thanks very much, I’ll give it a go :)
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Re: Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby harrybob » Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:57 am

Sorry I tried it with what I would call warm water but it seemed to have no effect. Should it be hot water ?

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Re: Burns traffolyte pickguard

Postby TIM-W » Sun Aug 28, 2022 10:41 am

the water needs to be hot enough to soften the pickguard so that it just becomes floppy.
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