Question for Seymour Duncan

[Jocelyn]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

Not that it applies here but slot "Heads" are a stronger tool interface and are less likely to strip out than a phillips.

Next came the pozidrive philips which never took off for whatever reason but do show up here and there.

+1 to this

[orpheo]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

I found a great set of screw drivers. one is PERFECT for neck screws. one is perfect for the polepieces and one is perfect for the adjustment screws. That baby never slips. Just use a right screwdriver for the right job. It sounds so ridiculous, but the right tool makes the work 90% less annoying or even hazardous. I tend to use slotted screws to hold down the pickup rings, too. I just like the clean look.

[Snake Aces]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

because they strip faster than a young single mother with daddy issues.

Gold, pure gold. Post of the month, post of the year

[LtKojak]

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It's a vintage correct thing.

No, it is NOT!



Look at the screws... I don't think that it gets any more "vintage correct" than that, Frank.

I thought you should know...

[dr. ad]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

What does, pozidrives ?

Oh hell no, they work great but very few people have the correct driver or even know that they require one.

i hear you; i should've said that trying to deal with pozi screws that someone else has mined the top out of is a bit of a PITA

[J E C]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

Could be / Would be nice if they came with both!

[frankfalbo]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

It's a vintage correct thing.

No, it is NOT!

Vintage Seymour Duncan pickups were shipped with slot head screws.

The end.

[GregJr]

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I hear you, Phillips head all the way for all pickups.

[jimijames]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

I like Phillips head screw drivers WHEN the phillips head screws are high quality. I can't tell you how many I've stripped and had to either a.) leave stripped and never take them out ever again, or b.) try and twist them out using a pair or pliers.

When a phillips head strips, it's about the most aggravating thing I've experienced in the context of guitars. I've never committed a hate crime but I have turned an already (slightly) broken table into kindling with a rubber hammer after stripping a philips head that I had drilled for. The reason I drilled for it was so that I wouldn't strip another ******* screw. I placed, delicately, the screwdriver onto the screw, and applied a gentle but persistent pressure. Before the screw began to turn, the philips head screwdriver delicately and gently removed all of the GD metal which might have otherwise been used to turn the screw into the already drilled wood.

I have two guitars with gotoh vintage locking tuners. Do you want to guess why they're all held on with flathead screws?

I've never had a neck screw strip while bolting on a neck. That's why I use philips head for that application. Vintage correct is slotted though. Same for pickguards, etc. etc.

Just about every SD pickup I've gotten has come with slotted (flat head) height adjustment screws. I think for that particular application philips is fine (pickup screws aren't really under a lot of tension/pressure/whatever) but I don't have a huge problem with slotted. Just hold the flathead in the screw with your thumb and forefinger like you're pinching the screw.

[darthphineas]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

*gets popcorn*

*waiting for Pepe*

[LtKojak]

Re: Question for Seymour Duncan

*gets popcorn*

*waiting for Pepe*

Frank played the "SD vintage" card, so he wins.

Anyway, it was all in jest, for the fun of it.

For the record: all my guitars have phillips screws. I just don't see the point in carrying around two screwdrivers, when I can do just fine with only one? I never let "tradition" or "vintage correctness" stand in the way of being practical... unless I get paid to prepare real vintage instruments for a show, that is.

[Myaccount876]

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It really is not hard at all to screw in a slotted head without slipping. Just be patient, don't rush, and focus on what you're doing. Using the right tool helps.

Now I really like slotted screws, more so than a lot of phillips. Why? I have yet to strip a slotted screw. People have told me "Bah I've stripped one before!". I can't understand how you can strip a slot-head screw to the point it is unusable like a stripped phillips head. I even googled "stripped slot head screw" and got nothing. Really, it is just a line through metal! How do you screw that up?

Frank played the "SD vintage" card, so he wins.

Anyway, it was all in jest, for the fun of it.

For the record: all my guitars have phillips screws. I just don't see the point in carrying around two screwdrivers, when I can do just fine with only one? I never let "tradition" or "vintage correctness" stand in the way of being practical... unless I get paid to prepare real vintage instruments for a show, that is.

With the slotted pickup height screws I've used a pick. Very convenient, and simple. Not the right tool, but can still work which I find to be another positive aspect of slot head screws.