Vintage neck pup mounting on tele......

[J Lacey]

I've been looking around for any instruction or photos here for mounting a neck pup in a Tele using a 5 hole guard with-out adjustment screw holes. So far Im coming up empty handed but I know it's here some place. You don't see alot of pup mounting in the build threads. I could take my Baja apart but knew you guys would share the correct method if I asked.

Thanks for the help !!


Jeff

[guitarbuilder]

I seem to recall some pickup company selling a pickup thingamajig that is the size of the pickup, and that fits into the pickup cavity and locates the holes via sharp pins on the bottom. Seems like it came up a week or so ago.
I bet you could whip one up out of wood or whatever material to do the same thing.

[musicalmartin]

Off the top of my head .Maybe make a card pickguard ,only the actual screw holes have to be exact and then only a couple .Using the actual pickguard mark out the cutout for the pickup in the card .Then put the pickup in in it and mark where the pickup screws would go ..Make holes for those screws in the card guard and then attach the card guard to the guitar ,lining up the guard screw holes .Then use a scriber to mark where the pickup screws will go in the wood .does that make sense .?

[J Lacey]

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home...pickguard.html

I did find the above link just now, thanks guitarbuilder for making me dig some more....I have a bad habit of searching through all the build threads and sometimes that's a hard way to find just one tiny little thing you need. There's so much info in those threads but very little concerning pup mounting.....Im trying to keep this build as un-modern and as basically stripped down looking as I can. Vintage tuners, bridge, knobs, etc.......Gone too far now to stick an 8 hole on it with adjustment screws.

Thanks again.


Jeff

[Colt W. Knight]

Originally Posted by guitarbuilder

I seem to recall some pickup company selling a pickup thingamajig that is the size of the pickup, and that fits into the pickup cavity and locates the holes via sharp pins on the bottom. Seems like it came up a week or so ago.
I bet you could whip one up out of wood or whatever material to do the same thing.

Callahan guitars makes one.

I always just centered the pup in the route. It always wiggled enough tho mount the guard.