Do SD pickups ship with proper screws and back paddings/springs?

[Laimon]

I bought a few days ago a set of SD, second hand, a SH2 and SH4. I mounted on my guitar, they sound nice but not quite the tone I was looking for. Anyway, buying second hand I got the pickups not in their original box, and when I started switching my former ones with these I noticed that:
a) the screw did not fit in the screw hole on the sides of the SDs
b) the SD had no sprigs or spacers to be distanced from the body
So I wondered (as I will probably buy anyway a pegasus/sentient set at this point), do they include screws and padding to distance the pu from the body?
Thanks a lot!

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Do SD pickups ship with proper screws and back paddings/springs?

When you say screws, I'm assuming you're mounting these directly into wood? In that case, the bolts and springs that come in the box are for mounting into a pickup ring or pickguard.
To mount into wood, you'll be ruining the holes in the pickup's legs, to drive a screw through it.
Duncan doesn't provide a wood screw, so you'd use whatever came with your guitar.

If you're using pickup rings, the bolts will match up with American spec guitars, but not necessarily imports like Epiphone etc.

 

[Laimon]

Re: Do SD pickups ship with proper screws and back paddings/springs?

When you say screws, I'm assuming you're mounting these directly into wood? In that case, the bolts and springs that come in the box are for mounting into a pickup ring or pickguard.
To mount into wood, you'll be ruining the holes in the pickup's legs, to drive a screw through it.
Duncan doesn't provide a wood screw, so you'd use whatever came with your guitar.

If you're using pickup rings, the bolts will match up with American spec guitars, but not necessarily imports like Epiphone etc.

Yeah, I mean the screws that go through the pickup's legs (or wings, the metal L shaped surfaces on the side.
There must be some. I mean, the pickup wouldn't have legs otherwise, they would serve no purpose ;-)

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Do SD pickups ship with proper screws and back paddings/springs?

Here's an example of how a new-in-the-box Duncan is packed. A wiring diagram, height screws and springs. (And for comparison, my Seths came with black pickup rings also. I do not know if that is standard or typical for covered humbuckers, however.)

 

[CTN]

Re: Do SD pickups ship with proper screws and back paddings/springs?

The humbucker ring is standard for trembucker spaced pickups, not sure what the deal is with Seth's and sets.

 

[Laimon]

Re: Do SD pickups ship with proper screws and back paddings/springs?

Here's an example of how a new-in-the-box Duncan is packed. A wiring diagram, height screws and springs. (And for comparison, my Seths came with black pickup rings also. I do not know if that is standard or typical for covered humbuckers, however.)

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Thanks! That's what I wanted to know
Btw, this might be quite finicky, but how long are the screws? If you can conveniently measure one, of course ;-)

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Do SD pickups ship with proper screws and back paddings/springs?

1.222" or 32mm