Recent content by ScottZ

I found a solution, but proceed at your own risk.  I used my Dremel to carefully open up the hole large enough to fit a Dremel sanding drum which is a little over a half inch in diameter.  I then carefully sanded in a circle until it was about 7/8".  That took care of the outer half inch or so...

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Ok, understood.  My line of thought was that the step bit would safely get past the outer skin and then there would be less worry of chipping the outside of the hole.

Not at all, I felt dirty typing it. While I feel perfectly qualified to glue in a 1/2" dowel, I'm not sure I can securely mount and drill a new hole.  would slowly enlarging the hole from the outside with a step bit work, them drill out the rest with the correct size? Or is that just asking for...

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Sorry, camera on the phone died.  It's a new unfinished body at the moment, a KNE KPAC51. It's a little odd, the jack actually comes out on the bottom edge, pretty much below the volume pot.  So standing up, the hole points at the ground.  The hole is probably about an inch deep that I would...

From what I can tell, it looks like the screws fall outside the trem cavity.  I'll make sure first.  If the pickup route is .75, and the trem cavity route is .75, that only leaves .25 between them.  As it is right now, there's a little over a half inch in between.

I have a guitar body with a small jack hole, about 0.5".  I want to enlarge it to 3/4".

I've decided to just reroute to 0.75".  The legs on the pickup stick out 0.25" below the pickup.  Is that considered long leg?

Except...this IS the pickup I've been wanting to try.  I can always swap baseplates.  Looks like I need to chuck up a forstner bit and increase the depth a bit though.

Well, before I do anything I need to mount up the bridge and neck and see where it all falls.  Maybe I'm just imagining that it's too high.  What is the standard depth for one of these routes?

I just received a new s-type body (not Warmoth) and had asked for a direct mount bridge humbucker route.  The depth of the route is about 0.45".  The humbucker I was planning to use has long legs (EVH Frankenstein), and the adjustable poles stick through the bottom of the pickup to the same...

Sorry to bring an old thread back up, but I'm looking to direct mount a humbucker soon.  I saw a thread in another forum where someone suggested mounting a humbucker baseplate in the bottom of the cavity, then using regular screws and springs between the holes in it and the pickup above.

Wow! $220 doesn't even cover the paint!

I've heard good things about their heavy duty licensed Floyd Rose, haven't tried it myself but it's around $75