What is your solution for stripped screw holes on pickups with paper/fiber base?

[Piing]

Fender Custom Shop Fat'50. Both holes are stripped.

I have tried gluing a nut at the base with a tiny dot of super-glue, and also inserting a small piece of paper in the hole. But solutions have failed. Any suggestion?

Now I have to dismount the pickguard again. Did I ever say how much I hate vintage parts?

 

[JiveTurkey]

Might as well tag @Eagle from the jump.

 

[Devin]

I've cut little squares out of a coca cola can before to put on the tabs and then screwed through those


Ultra ghetto but it worked for me lmao

 

[Eagle]

You can mix some fibre shavings with epoxy and add it to the hole redrill and start again but you will probably need to cut the thread of its prone to strip again.

 

[newholland]

I've cut little squares out of a coca cola can before to put on the tabs and then screwed through those


Ultra ghetto but it worked for me lmao

i was gonna say just that. make an improvised nut out of aluminum!

 

[Piing]

Thank you for the replies.

I have finally fixed it by first applying a ultra-thin layer of super glue (to avoid spilling it to the nut's thread), let it dry, and then apply a second round of super-glue.

ps.: these six grooves at the bottom of the pickguard are the old paths for the six wires of the Ghost Piezo Saddles that were there long time ago.