Screws for wood mnt humbucker
- Thread starter jlegnor
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If you want to do that, there are a few ways to accomplish it.
First and easiest, but most destructive... is to drill out the hole in the humbucker frame, to accept a wood screw. You alter the pickup. You'll need to either use springs, foam or shims under the pickup to set the elevation
The other way, is to inset escutcheons into the body, and use a machine thread screw. You'll still have to alter the pickup by drilling out the hole. The screw size to use would be 4-40 or 6-32
First and easiest, but most destructive... is to drill out the hole in the humbucker frame, to accept a wood screw. You alter the pickup. You'll need to either use springs, foam or shims under the pickup to set the elevation
The other way, is to inset escutcheons into the body, and use a machine thread screw. You'll still have to alter the pickup by drilling out the hole. The screw size to use would be 4-40 or 6-32
lemme give you an other scenario too
I mounted some P90's flat in the body routes, strung up, got it all adjusted, then figured out how high the p90 would need to go. Then I cut some wooden shims for the bottom of the routes, and used some small screws to hold them in place. THEN... I screwed the pickups to the shims. The result was a solid mount pickup. I mean S.O.L.I.D. solid. Totally unmovable. Dunno if it helped the tone, but the SG with the P90's is a great sounding guitar.
I mounted some P90's flat in the body routes, strung up, got it all adjusted, then figured out how high the p90 would need to go. Then I cut some wooden shims for the bottom of the routes, and used some small screws to hold them in place. THEN... I screwed the pickups to the shims. The result was a solid mount pickup. I mean S.O.L.I.D. solid. Totally unmovable. Dunno if it helped the tone, but the SG with the P90's is a great sounding guitar.
Escutcheon - ess-kew-shun - a part, set within the main body of a mechanism for the purpose of providing a substantial, or renewable, threaded screw hole hole, when the main body of the mechanism presents characteristics that would otherwise prove unfavorable for the fastening of other parts via threaded screws. A threaded insert.
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Simplest solution..............use the screws provided with the pickups with some modifications.
1. Measure and cut the screws to length and grind the worm end to sharpen them.
2. Tightly insert wood dowels into the deep screw provision space in the humbucker rout.
3. Drill pilot holes and mount. You may need shims at the bottom of the pickup to hold it stable.
1. Measure and cut the screws to length and grind the worm end to sharpen them.
2. Tightly insert wood dowels into the deep screw provision space in the humbucker rout.
3. Drill pilot holes and mount. You may need shims at the bottom of the pickup to hold it stable.
