Pickup baseplate repair

[Gerry Hayes Haze Guitars]

Yeah. The papier-mâché and CA approach might work just fine. I’d have a worry whether I could re-tap the new hole without the filler pulling free but that might be me being over-cautious.

A possible alternative could be to add a surrogate base. You could make a new fibre-board base with appropriate pole holes and slots for the wires and attach to the bottom of the existing base. There’s no real shear there so even some double stick tape might do the trick to keep it in place. It’s easily reversible should the need arise. This is all a ‘first thought’ though so the whole plan may be full of holes. 😄

[Timothy Esau Sunday Musical Instruments LLC]

Some Mojotone flatwork has little chads that don’t get knocked free from the pole holes, you could try to plug with them and redrill and tap with a 6-32, but that seems dicey. I’d be happy to send you some. Might be a better idea to use some little Forbon circles under the stock bobbin, glued on.