Removing pick gaurd

Removing the pickgaurd was pretty simple. Eleven screws around the outside edge, then carefully flip it over, laying it on a towel to keep from scratching the body. Also make sure the towel covers the whole body as you'll have to desolder a wire here.

There are usually two wires attached to the body. One is the output jack which I've already detached. The other runs from the volumn pot, through the body to the trem claw. Tin your iron and barely touch the back of the pot and the wire should slide right out of the little blob of solder.

The pickguard is now completely free of the body.

In the picture, the grey wire is the one that ran to the output jack, already pulled through the body. The little black one that goes behind the towel is the one to the trem.