How to drill strat pickup holes in the (rear routed body) cavities ?

oliviermarian

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Hello,
Got a nice rear routed strat body.
The 3 standard single coil pickups cavities were nicely routed by Warmoth.

Is there a map of how to drill holes to setup the seymour SSL2 single pickups ?

thxs for your help.
Olivier.
 

jackthehack

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I'd just set the pickup in the cavity and drill the pilot holes through the holes where'd you normally fit mounting screws in, then screw the wood screw type screws through to the wood.  If that makes you nervous, mark the point through the mounting hole and remove PU and drill pilot.
 

oliviermarian

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Hi Jack, faster the lucky luke !!

Yes I was figuring this, but the cavity is sensibly larger than the pickup, and I was wonderign if there was a paper with measurments which would tell em where to drill the holes...
 

oliviermarian

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So be it !!
Thxs Jack, for this and for the incredible amount of information you've provided on this forum.
Olivier.
 

ibob74

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You could also temporarily install the low and hi E strings to help line up the pole pieces.
 

jackthehack

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ibob74 said:
You could also temporarily install the low and hi E strings to help line up the pole pieces.

That actually isn't a bad idea at all; I haven't had an issue just centering them in the pickup routes by eyeball, but haven't done a lot of SC's this way.
 
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