Mounting a humbucker w/out a pickup ring

[Daniel]

I'd kind of like that 'clean' look for a couple of projects I have in
various states of completion (actually, suspended animation but that's a
different subject.) I've never actually seen instructions or a diagram
or anything on how you 'face-mount' a Gibson-style HB w/in the pickup
hole however. Suggestions?

ddk

[Mattia Valente]

Daniel wrote:
> I'd kind of like that 'clean' look for a couple of projects I have in
> various states of completion (actually, suspended animation but that's a
> different subject.) I've never actually seen instructions or a diagram
> or anything on how you 'face-mount' a Gibson-style HB w/in the pickup
> hole however. Suggestions?

If you glue on a top, you can route the picked route 'wedged' a little,
so you can slip it in full depth at one end, pass the tab at the other
end into the route, and then center it again. Simply have the height
adjustment screws go through little holes in the top.

[Daniel]

Mattia Valente wrote:
> If you glue on a top, you can route the picked route 'wedged' a little,
> so you can slip it in full depth at one end, pass the tab at the other
> end into the route, and then center it again. Simply have the height
> adjustment screws go through little holes in the top.

What I'm thinking of is the type of installation featured here:

http://www.bcrich.com/images/glamour/warlock/darkarts/glam2_da.jpg

[jtougas]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:58:31 GMT, Daniel <dkurtz@NOSPAMAmeritech.net>
trained 100 monkeys to jump on the keyboard and write:

>I'd kind of like that 'clean' look for a couple of projects I have in
>various states of completion (actually, suspended animation but that's a
>different subject.) I've never actually seen instructions or a diagram
>or anything on how you 'face-mount' a Gibson-style HB w/in the pickup
>hole however. Suggestions?
>
>ddk

It's not nearly as difficult as you think. *grin*

http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/options/options_guitar_pickups_routing.cfm

Scroll about halfway down...

Basically, you route a humbucker shaped hole, and screw the pickup to
the bottom of it.

--
jtougas

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let's go" - e.e. cummings

[Mattia Valente]

Daniel wrote:
> Mattia Valente wrote:
>> If you glue on a top, you can route the picked route 'wedged' a
>> little, so you can slip it in full depth at one end, pass the tab at
>> the other end into the route, and then center it again. Simply have
>> the height adjustment screws go through little holes in the top.
>
> What I'm thinking of is the type of installation featured here:
>
> http://www.bcrich.com/images/glamour/warlock/darkarts/glam2_da.jpg

That's just a bog-standard humbucker pickup route, with the pickup
mounted like a P-90 (foam to adjust height, screws straight into the wood.)

Mattia

[Daniel]

jtougas wrote:
> It's not nearly as difficult as you think. *grin*
>
> http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/options/options_guitar_pickups_routing.cfm
>
> Scroll about halfway down...
>
> Basically, you route a humbucker shaped hole, and screw the pickup to
> the bottom of it.

Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.