P-rails VS Humbucker Size

[JaySwear]

i'm planning a build, and due to the top wood i'd like to use i switched my plans from a tele deluxe to a soloist (if i'm going to spend the money, i should see the wood detail, right?  :icon_biggrin

that being said i won't have a pickguard to mount my pickup on (just planning a bridge P-rails)

would mounting a P-rail in a soloist prove to be a problem? i'm planning on a Recessed Tune-o-Matic and low action. i'm afraid the taller P-rails might prove to be TOO tall, but possibly this would just mean i wouldn't have to put as many wood shims underneath the pickup. (as a side note, i'd like to mount the pickup to the body, without a pickup ring which would probably keep this from being a problem at all).

if it proves to be a problem i might have to change my bridge idea, or use a pickup mounting ring, but what do you guys think? any experience with P-rails? i know i've seen a few projects around with them!

hard to see, but the p-rails is about 15/16ths of an inch, and the humbucker is about 13/16ths of an inch. (60/64 ths VS 52/64 ths)

another measurement picture. those didn't turn out quite so well  :sad1:

this picture doesn't show it very well, but the two pickups are almost the exact same width and length.

thanks for any help / advice!  :icon_thumright:

 

[Mor Paul]

It would work, I think.

 

[tfarny]

Worst case, you put a guitar pick as a neck shim, crank up the bridge height a tad, and you're good, plus you've got more break angle at the saddle. That thing looks giant next to a hb, but I think you could definitely get a HB down 1/8 lower. Mind you, I've never tried any of this and never seen a P-rail. Hope you don't take my advice and screw up your build plans!  ccasion14:

 

[Orpheo]

sure they'll work. I have them, and they work just fine. don't forget that they won't be really FLUSH with the body, they'll be a bit higher. as every humbucker.  besides, I don't think that seymour duncan would make humbuckers that wouldn't fit in every humbucker equiped guitar...

 

[bpmorton777]

if you havnt got the body ordered yet you could ask warmoth for the rio grande tallboy rout which is 1/8 deeper than standard .

Brian

 

[uOpt]

You could always get rid of even the small leg that they have on there (flatten out).

Without leg the P-rails isn't any higher than a short-leg standard humbucker.