Change the split Jazzmaster

[Reisgar42]

I recently bought a split Jazzmaster body as my first Warmoth build.  It's beautiful and everything, but we're installing the pickup mounting rings right now, and the bottom-right screw holding the ring to the body goes straight through the hole that's drilled for the wire of the pickup.  Since the pickup needs to be IN there to mount it, this means that the only option is to screw straight through the wire.  We've had to drill a new hole from the pup rout to the control cavity, and since these bodies cost hundreds of dollars, there's no excuse for this to be an issue.  For the sake of the customer, please fix this.

 

[Wyliee]

Already forwarded to our CAD crew.

FYI, Warmoth does prototyping before releasing new products and did not encounter this issue.  Can you take some photos and send them to me?  Thanks.

 

[Wyliee]

Follow up here.

I checked with the shop, including some old timers.  The location of the hole is the same as it has been for decades.  So I pulled tall and short mounting rings and a sampling of bodies. Regardless of screw or ring combination, none are long enough to pierce the wire channel.  In short, I could not recreate the scenario and make bad things happen.

I'd be interested in any photos you have and which pickup rings/screws you're using.  eric@warmoth.com

 

[Reisgar42]

Sadly, I do not own a camera and all you'd see is a deepening of the hole.  I'm using the standard pickup ring screws from Warmoth and the chrome untapered pickup rings from Stewart MacDonald found here: http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Hardware,_parts/Electric_guitar:_Covers_plates/Metal_Humbucker_Mounting_Rings_For_Flat_Bodies.html?actn=100101&xst=3&xsr=260

We did eventually get it figured out, but the screws went into the hole for the wire about 1/4 of an inch and would have stabbed straight through the wire if we hadn't noticed the resistance.