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But I always try and remember that this is guitar building we're talking about, not aerospace.
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I spent a few years in the fastener industry and never knew what the point of a washer was until after I had been working in the industry for 5 years!
Flat washers serve two functions in any application
1) to evenly distribute tension otherwise the tension is on the bolt once tightened (in our case the pot shaft)
2) hex nuts need a flat surface to adhere to, otherwise the nut will easily come loose.
Granted, the tension in this application is minimal.
as a bonus, as mentioned above, no one wants the nut to mark the finish in a guitar. If you tighten it enough on a nitro finish im sure you’d get a mini indentation anyway.
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Is a nut more likely to scratch plastic than a washer?
But on a USA Fender, it won't anyway because they leave the protective clear layer on the pickguard when they assemble the guitar.
So you then have to remove the knobs and loosen the pots to get it off without leaving torn fragments under the knobs, where they make an irritating rustling noise when you turn them .
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What about the kind of spikey washers for the other side, what are those used for?
spikey washer is to prevent the nut or bolt turning which could reduce the clamp force.
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Don't worry about doing the nut up tight enough that the grip washer bites into the pickguard, that's what it's meant to do.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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