Classical guitar junk shop find has a clear plastic pickguard on it. Looks like thin ‘copter tape or could be the 3M approved one. Anyway, tis stuck fast even picking at it with my thumb nail has failed to raise a corner. T’internet has two methods of removal a heat gun or naphtha. I don’t like the idea of a heat gun and I am assured the naphtha will not destroy the finish so that is my current preferred method except I don’t have any naphtha either. Is it possible to buy small say 100mls of naphtha?
The idea is that once the naphtha gets in under the pickguard it releases the glue and voila a lighter area where the pickguard used to be so then the top will need refinishing. It’s a handmade guitar with CITES listed materials no longer available with a brilliant sound now I have put new strings but all I can see is that damned pickguard.
naphtha - not sure if there's a proper definition in the luthier's (top vocab !) handbook but I'd put lighter fluid in the same bracket
(... no expertise to call on, whatsoever)
Hairdryer. You want to heat up the glue so you can remove it.
Heatgun will be quicker, but even in a low setting can get a bit hot!
Hairdryer won't get too hot.
What's the guitar?
Can we have pictures?
Lighter fluid is naptha.
Personally i'd say hairdryer and a thin steel fishslice first as a first go to get it off and naptha to clean the grunge of after.
You'll be there forever trying naptha alone.