Urgent help for a newbie please

[wolf5150]

Hello to everyone.
Fantastic site !  :guitarplayer2:

I'm about to place an order for a body and neck but i've come across an issue.

I've managed to get hold of a complete pickup set and wiring loom of Tom Anderson pickups.

I've now been told that Anderson stacked singles might be too tall for a normal strat route and Warmoth have advised me against seepening the route.

What they can't tell me is whether a rear route would work.

Does anyone have an idea please ?????

 

[Cagey]

Warmoth bodies and necks are made under license from Fender, so they have to be technically correct in dimension and design. That means if those pickups can fit in a Fender Strat, they can fit in a Warmoth Strat. But, if they really are exceptionally deep, I'm sure a rear route would compensate. Fender's bodies aren't any thicker. If a rear route wouldn't work, that would mean the pickups are over 2" tall, since the body is ~1 3/4" thick and the pickups protrude at least a 1/4" above that.

I've put stacked single coils from DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan in both my current Warmoth Strat bodies (top-routed). If you can find out how those Tom Anderson parts compare dimensionally to a Virtual Vintage Blues 2 or an Area 58, you'd know if you have to worry.

 

[AutoBat]

^^Just the peghead shape is under license. the bodies are slightly different, but not to an outside observer.

 

[OzziePete]

It might be a situation where the Tom Anderson bodies are a fraction deeper than the standard Strat bodies, or there's less routing underneath the pickups for the trems. So they put the taller pickups in to maximise the windings on the pickups.

If you can, maybe contact the Tom Anderson people and ask them for dimensions of the pickups? While you'd expect that a lot of companies might just ignore your request, there's no harm in asking?  :dontknow:

http://www.andersonguitars.com/support/contactinfo.cfm

 

[wolf5150]

Tom says they are 1.06 inches tall, plus the wire underneath.

Think they'll fit a top routed Warmoth Strat body ?????????

 

[Cagey]

Tom says they are 1.06 inches tall, plus the wire underneath.

Think they'll fit a top routed Warmoth Strat body ?????????

Yeah, it should be fine. I just happen to have a disassembled Warmoth Strat body and an assembled pickguard sitting next to me here, and the routed depth for the pickups is .75"

The pickup height from wire bend to tallest pole is ~.85"

The pickup mounting screw descends lower into the cavity than the pickup does, once you adjust the pickup up a bit to get near the strings. The depth the screw is reaching is ~.75", so it's nearly bottoming out, but the pickup itself is not. There's between 1/8" to 1/4" clearance between the bottom of the pickup and the floor of the pickup cavity in the body. I could trim the mounting screws if I wanted to and not really lose any adjustment.

So, I'd say you're safe.