Humbucker Helper

[Beerfish]

Hey dudes and dudettes Help out a fish here. I want to do some humbucker routes.thinking pickup rings and short bridge but I would like to make a template I could use in the future and would like to know the "norm".wondered if anyone could help?
A.where would the front humbucker go compare to a single pickup to match GFS and other humbucker pickguards.
B.what would be the distance from the string through holes on my RK templates to the edge of the pickup route for a GFS or Gotoh humbucker bridge.

 

[Hackguitarist]

This is what popped into my ffeble brain when I saw the thread title.

Not helpful at all unless ya get a chuckle....

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Next: P-90 in a can.

 

[Beerfish]

Thats what I need!!!! where can I get some?

 

[otterhound]

Helped her humbucker make a great hum .

 

[Wayne Alexander]

You can buy precut plexiglas ones from Stew-Mac for something in the range of $6. I'd suggest getting those.

 

[Nick JD]

Best bet is to get all the hardware first and lay it all out so everything fits before you route, if possible.

 

[Beerfish]

that would be the best way but this build I,m just useing pickup rings which I have but that doesn't help with route placement then again its no biggie if I,m off ahair just thought someone might have work this out

 

[Nick JD]

that would be the best way but this build I,m just useing pickup rings which I have but that doesn't help with route placement then again its no biggie if I,m off ahair just thought someone might have work this out

Oh, then you're free to place them wherever, eh?

I like: 1.75" and 5.75" (from the intonated fat E string saddle center, to the center of the HB's bobbins).

Maybe someone else with a HB tele can measure theirs and you can then decide on yours.

 

[Hackguitarist]

Oh, then you're free to place them wherever, eh?

I like: 1.75" and 5.75" (from the intonated fat E string saddle center, to the center of the HB's bobbins).

Maybe someone else with a HB tele can measure theirs and you can then decide on yours.

Nick, on a 25.5"scale git, or otherwise as far as that preference??

Ciao

 

[Nick JD]

Yeah - 25.5" scale.

I'm not sure I understand the last part of your post. But yes, that's my preference as to where to put them, not a rule of any sort.

I don't think there are any hard and fast rules on pickup placement. If you want your guitar to sound like a million other guitars - put them in the same place.

People get their minds caught in the mental razorwire of tonewoods and then don't even think about the wonderful tonal variance achievable with a subtly "misplaced" pickup.

 

[MarkAdam]

I think I've got sumthin you can use...

I'm doin' the same thing..a twin bucker Tele-gib...and I've found that using a spread between the humbuckng routs of 2.50 inches will work very nicely.
Measurement is from back wall of lead bucker rout to front wall of rhythm bucker rout. This will fit the existing tele routs and that spread is about the same for a Les Paul.

Then the Wilky short bridge can be fit in place.

Cheers!

 

[kplamann]

I am presently in the process of assembling a mini-humbucker equipped tele and wondered where to put the bridge pickup (for the neck pickup I use a pre-cut pickguard).

I made the following reasoning:

- I had a friend measure the distance between the bridge pickup and the centre of the bridge on his Les Paul Deluxe. He measured 38 mm (1.5 ").
- The Telecaster and Les Paul scale lengths are 648 mm (25.7 ") and 629 mm (24.75 "), respectively. The ratio thus is 648 / 629 = 1.03.
- To "see" the same harmonics of the string, strictly speaking the centre of the mini-humbucker should be placed at 38 mm x 1.03 = 39.14 mm (1.55 ").

Which really should not make any difference given the overall width of the pickup.

 

[Telenator]

I'm with NickJD on this one. I like to place my brdige pickup 1/8 to 1/4" further from the bridge than what the manufacturers do and then space the pickups 4" on center.

I find that my hand built guitars have a beefier bridge pickup sound and that is sounds better as compared to the neck pickup. I have played several guitars, (especially humbuckers) where I couldn'y find an amp setting that sounded good with all pickup settings. The bridge was too bright or the neck as too bassey.

Moving the bridge pickup forward 1/4" smooths it out nicely.

 

[Hackguitarist]

Yeah - 25.5" scale.

I'm not sure I understand the last part of your post. But yes, that's my preference as to where to put them, not a rule of any sort.

I meant as opposed to non fend scale..

Ciao

 

[Beerfish]

Hey, Thanks alot guys you helped me out again! and just in time ,Little more coffee then I,m gonna route the body I cut from a blank yesterday,get a pecil ,ruler and do some layout.

 

[Ironwolf]

Beerfish, if you are looking to make a generic humbucker template that will fit with various pickguards, there is a website that has full size .pdfs of pretty nearly every pickguard you can imagine.

http://www.terrapinguitars.com/pdfFiles.html

 

[Nick JD]

Beerfish, if you are looking to make a generic humbucker template that will fit with various pickguards, there is a website that has full size .pdfs of pretty nearly every pickguard you can imagine.

http://www.terrapinguitars.com/pdfFiles.html

Wow! What a resource. Thanks for that.

 

[Beerfish]

Double Wow!! cool site thanks!Heres what I did with your help and compareing my LP.

 

[Beerfish]

heres one with pickups