Pickguard Pickle

[Floridian FX]

You can kind of do it in Inkscape(free) or Illustrator($$$) or Mastercam($$$$$), but there is so much cleanup after the fact that there isn't any time savings. Also, there is something fucky with the scanned images, and I have tried multiple scanners. Usually one side is screwed about .060" minimum.

The best way I have found is trace the PG, scan the tracing, bring the pdf into a cad program like autocad, and trace using a mixture of splines, arcs, and lines.

Print it out, place the PG on it and go from there.

My genious plan in the beginning was I would only have draw it up once and then bang out multiples from there. However, a large majority of my customers had import guitars in which every PG was unique, some even on the same model. So every PG was a one-off.

If all you yahoos would just buy Fender or Gibson, my life would have been a lot easier!!

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