After the initial flurry of activity things have been going quite a lot slower over the last month or so. Mainly the issue is time. I'd love to spend a week or so doing nothing but working on this project, but that's realistically not going to happen.
So the pickguard is finished :)
...to get the final fit and to ensure it is flush to the controls and the end of the neck, I attached it to the body and carefully, just a little at a time, filed around the edges at both positions, until the neck and the controls then attached nice and snugly. I did the same with the neck pickup hole until the pickup slotted through it just right.
I also then filed around the edge of the pickguard to ensure sure its edge is inline with the countours of the body and give it a nice bevel (top tip: don't do this at too acute an angle if you are doing it by hand, otherwise if you have a router a special bit can be purchased for the job)
Finally, I plugged the old pickguard holes in the body and drilled new holes in the appropriate places.
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