Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

[Kamanda~SD]

OK, the bottom hole on my strats pickup selector is stripped, the screw just fals in and out, what can I do/ use to fill it?

 

[bungalowbill]

Re: Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

Fill the hole with a toothpick or 2, break off flush and insert screw.

 

[Hellion]

Re: Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

If it's larger than the toothpick, try a matchstick and break it off in the hole after dipping it in glue.

 

[Xeromus]

Re: Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

or use some wood filler, fill, let dry, drill new hole, voila.

 

[proxy]

Re: Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

Gorrila Glue would be a great glue for this. It expands and then hardens, so it'll fill any voids around the toothpick. Great stuff.

 

[Docrock]

Re: Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

If you have a strat and the 3 or 5 way selector is what your referring to....then you are not dealing with wood.

Im shocked noone caught this

You have plastic pickguard then switch....Im guessing you have the switch which uses nuts behind it rather than "fixed" threads...the nut has fallen off and is most likely rattling around inside your guitar or maybe made its way to a pickup magnet.

You will have to remove the pickguard and locate the screw or a replacement to fix it, all the toothpicks you can shove in that hole aint gonna fix this one.

 

[MikeS]

Re: Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

Unless he edited it after your post, he specified wood

Take a toothpick and put a dab of glue on it, then install pickguard and screw while the glue is wet.

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

Trick question.....the pickguard is made out of wood.

Right?

 

[Kamanda~SD]

Re: Filling in a stripped hole in pickguard (wood)

Thanks guys, I'm bringing my guitar in for a setup while I go on vacation so I'll gte the guy to look at it for me.

Also, it was the bottom screw in holing in the selector switch.