How do you adapt a "one handed clamp to it"..... I'm getting ideas as I type - but if you've already got it down I'd love to see how you actually do...
Here's a vid that might be relevant to your situation. I thought I had this going on with a 40 year old Acoustic. It turned out to be something else...
A closer look at the cover plate reveals apart from dirty marks that should come of with some polish the are tiny bits
of what appears to be surface...