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DiMarzio Mini Humbucker Route for Pickguard

Rick

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I'm really liking my DiMarzio Mini Humbucker.  When I did my build, I had to sand my pickguard, expand the Gibson rout a little bigger.  It would've been nice to have an Officially cut warmoth rout for this most excellent pickup.
Thanks
 
Its confusing because there are many different size routing for mini hums.

SEYMOUR DUNCAN
1.115" x 2.615" Route size from Warmoth. SD size spec is 1.080" x 2.580" for the pickup.
GIBSON
1.155" x 2.655" Route size from Warmoth.
ALLPARTS (I had enlarged the route size from Warmoth SD route)
1.115" x 2.677" Route size that I used.
DIMARZIO
??? x ??? Routing size. Pickup Specs from Dimarzio is 1.110" x 2.710"

What I suspect is the Dimarzio pickup will actually fit into a pickup route of 1.110" x 2.710". Can anyone confirm?
If its true, the same size route will work for both ALLPARTS and DIMARZIO.

Most of the pickups seem to fit screw spacing of around 2.944" or 74.7mm.
 
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I’m talking about the pick guard route for mini hum bucker. I had to expand the gibson rout east to west to fit the dimarzio.  Are you talking about the rout in the body?  I put my dimarzios into a regular humbucker rout.  Covered by the pick guard you can’t tell.  Can’t make a comment about body routs.  The screw holes lined up perfectly with the Gibson mini hum holes, so probably not an issue on the body rout. 
 
Sorry for the late reply.    I wrote about pickguard route.

I'm most likely to order a Seymour Duncan SM-1.  This one is going in the neck position of a 24.75" scale guitar with a 7/8 Warmoth neck. 
 
I ended up ordering a few Mini-Humbuckers:
1) Allparts PU-6550-001
2) Lindy Fralin
3) Lollar

All of these pickups seem to be the same size. Approx 28.3mm x 68.1mm (1.115" x 2.680"). However I don't think Warmoth offer a pickguard route that fits them properly.
 

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Keep us in the loop on how it works out and how the pickguards are modified if at all
 
A follow up for anyone who is interested. I ordered the pickguard with only a strat middle pickup route, so it was X-S-X config from Warmoth. Then I cut my own pickup routes for the two mini humbuckers. The routes are cut to match the size of the pickup covers without any clearance. There is some taper on the sides of mini humbuckers, so when the pickup is raised it becomes a snug fit in the pickup route.
 

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