Anyone ever used this trick for body mounting pickups?

[Matt300ZXT]

I saw a video last night where a guy used one of these and screwed it into the body of the guitar, then was able to use the original mounting holes on his pickup without having to drill the hole out, rendering the pickup useless for pulling later to install in a pickguard or pickup rings. Anyone ever tried this? Or maybe someone else has some fancy trick? I will need a trick for single coils too.

 

[mnemonic]

most of my guitars are direct mount. I have drilled the ears out for using thin wood screws and in the several cases where I’ve wanted to later pickguard-mount one of those pickups I’ve tapped the holes for I think M3.5 or M4 machine thread (I forget which) and used larger machine screws for pickguard mounting.

I have also soldered small steel 3-48 UNC nuts to the ears before for using the usual small pickup ring mounting screws, but only when the hole was too big to tap, as it’s a bit more advanced to get enough heat into the ears for the solder to stick, without melting the wax potting. Also more trouble to later direct-mount again.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

 

[valve]

DIN 7981 2,2X25 screws
thin enough, so they won't touch the threads of your pickups!

 

[stratjacket]

Never saw that before, but I like it. What’s the site or what is it called so I can try this?

 

[valve]

Keep in mind, every piece of ferromagnetic material/iron near a PU will slightly alter it‘s sound (increasing the inductance)

 

[chumbucket]

Check out this link on Project Guitar. You can use your original baseplate and not drill it out. They've got the links to the part numbers at McMaster Carr too.

https://www.projectguitar.com/tutor...le-pickup-mounting-with-threaded-inserts-r77/