In answer to your hole question, for a person without a dremal tool, I should think if one took the slot width appropriate drill bit diameter, marked on the bottom of the pickguard the slot needed, then drill a hole on each end of slot marking, you could file the middle piece out nice and neat.
As far as your rebuttal to Ron's first post, I just want to KINDLY say;
When you start a thread on these sites, you are going to get all kinds of opinions/suggestions that can end up different than what you EXACALLY want to know/do as we all like to just talk shop.
So you get, I did this, or I did that.......................because of whatever reason.
We should all try to not feel injured by what someone else posts by taking it as any personal slight or attack. People by nature like to voice there opinion or suggest their way of doing things for reasons of pride or more often,
they want to help the next guy by offering OPTIONS in a way to go about things.
So take those posts for what they are worth, or just scroll on and find what you need.
One can learn a ton of things from those like Ron on here that have hundreds of been there, done that projects they can share with us.
I have found that a person can never take for granted how invaluable, or time saving, knowledge from actual experience can be.
So what gets posted usually isn't intended by nature to bash what the OP is looking to do, but just to throw another option out there for consideration.
Sometimes in jest, the wording could be taken wrong when we don't personally know each other, so it can be easy to take offense sometimes.
Happy Pickin !
Last edited: Oct 17, 2020
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