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Location: Cork, Ireland | Building a lap steel (see my recent posts).
Got a strat-type pickup but trying to work out how to mount it. They often come with screws and springs but this didn't. Are they screwed into the pick-guard? What I really need are pictures!
Also, how far should the pickup be from the strings? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | You could reference this. Helped with my project:
http://www.bluestemstrings.com/page3.html
Generally, yeah, the pickup is attached to the pickguard. As to height, depends on what type of sound you want, and the impedance of the pickup (I think).
Good luck! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Look at pictures of lap steels (google). I have seen some mounted directly to the body and are essentially not adjustable, and other mounted to a bezel that it just large enough to fit the pickup with a screw on either end. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Thanks. Been looking at lost of photos in Google Images: lots of people makin their own lap steels, it seems. From what I can see, the screws should go through the pickguard, pass through the springs, then the screws should screw in to the baseplate of the pickup? If so, the holes in the baseplate should be threaded, but they ain't ! Spose I could use self-tapping screws. Rough sketch attached
Edited by sycamore 2013-02-07 11:14 AM
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 Lap Steel Sketch.pdf (74KB - 4 downloads)
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Yes, they are self-tapping screws, for the most part. You have the assembly protocol correct. |
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OT - how to mount Strat-type pickups
