dpaterson
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Anybody ever thought to try coat or cover their pickup springs (in much the same way as some of these Floyd Rose tremelo springs are coated or covered)??? If so: any ideas??? Don't want to use tubing for a variety of reasons.
Reason for asking:
I replaced a stock Jackson bridge pickup with a Dimarzio Super Distortion a little while ago. Ever since then I've been getting some really weird "shrill overtones". After much fault finding (including putting BACK the stock Jackson Floyd Rose) (although had other reasons for doing this) the cause, it turns out, is one of the flipping pickup springs. If I tap on the pickup screws on any of my guitars with a screwdriver: you can clearly hear the tapping but that's it. On this guitar and on one of the pickup screws: the tapping results in a sort of "springy reverberation" sound. So I figured that when I put my SD Invaders in (hopefully will have the bridge pickup before Christmas Day) I'd maybe try coating or insulating the pickup springs to avoid this happening again.
From reading around the Internet: I realise this is not a common problem. But what the hell i.e. if I can do it then why not. Certainly not gonna do any harm.
Was thinking of trying some of that heat shrink stuff i.e. get some that's very close to the diameter of a spring and heat just enough to tighten around the spring. The heat shrink stuff is flexible enough to be able to contract and expand with the spring without cracking. Another thought is to melt some of that hot glue (the type of stuff that you use in hot glue guns) in a pan until it's a runny liquid and then just dip the springs in and out so that they're coated lightly with the glue (this glue never hardens after drying i.e. always has a slight rubbery feel to it after it has dried). Hard way: take some very thin insulation (from, say, pickup type wire) and thread the spring through the insulation (could take a while though).
Anybody ever thought to try coat or cover their pickup springs (in much the same way as some of these Floyd Rose tremelo springs are coated or covered)??? If so: any ideas??? Don't want to use tubing for a variety of reasons.
Reason for asking:
I replaced a stock Jackson bridge pickup with a Dimarzio Super Distortion a little while ago. Ever since then I've been getting some really weird "shrill overtones". After much fault finding (including putting BACK the stock Jackson Floyd Rose) (although had other reasons for doing this) the cause, it turns out, is one of the flipping pickup springs. If I tap on the pickup screws on any of my guitars with a screwdriver: you can clearly hear the tapping but that's it. On this guitar and on one of the pickup screws: the tapping results in a sort of "springy reverberation" sound. So I figured that when I put my SD Invaders in (hopefully will have the bridge pickup before Christmas Day) I'd maybe try coating or insulating the pickup springs to avoid this happening again.
From reading around the Internet: I realise this is not a common problem. But what the hell i.e. if I can do it then why not. Certainly not gonna do any harm.
Was thinking of trying some of that heat shrink stuff i.e. get some that's very close to the diameter of a spring and heat just enough to tighten around the spring. The heat shrink stuff is flexible enough to be able to contract and expand with the spring without cracking. Another thought is to melt some of that hot glue (the type of stuff that you use in hot glue guns) in a pan until it's a runny liquid and then just dip the springs in and out so that they're coated lightly with the glue (this glue never hardens after drying i.e. always has a slight rubbery feel to it after it has dried). Hard way: take some very thin insulation (from, say, pickup type wire) and thread the spring through the insulation (could take a while though).
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