HELP! CONRAD ARCHTOP PICKUPS OR PICKUPS AND RINGS???!!!

[darnright]

This is a hollowbody archtop (335 size), with pickups or rings that are approx 4" by 1 3/4" , holes are almost same size. I have had no luck finding any pickups or

rings for standard pickups to cover these holes. Hoping someone here has an idea.

Thanks, Dave

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: HELP! CONRAD ARCHTOP PICKUPS OR PICKUPS AND RINGS???!!!

If you do some image searching on the internet you will probably find something similar to what your guitar came with.
I believe they were probably single-coil pickups mounted in bezels made of pickguard plastic.
I had an odd-shaped hollowbody around 1987 that had those. They were large flat bezels shaped like those holes. Mine were tortoise-shell and the pickups were white with chrome trim rings. I remember that when I mounted a humbucker in the bridge position I did not have to enlarge the hole in the wood, only in the mounting bezels themselves.

Order a sheet of pickguard plastic from Amazon or eBay and cut out three pieces to cover the holes and you are all set.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: HELP! CONRAD ARCHTOP PICKUPS OR PICKUPS AND RINGS???!!!

I can't attach the images right now for some reason, but if you Google "vintage hollow body" you will see several variations of what I am describing. Some are rectangular, some have the elongated shape.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: HELP! CONRAD ARCHTOP PICKUPS OR PICKUPS AND RINGS???!!!

Here you go!

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: HELP! CONRAD ARCHTOP PICKUPS OR PICKUPS AND RINGS???!!!

They just look like standard P-90’s to me. Put three P-90’s in and rock out.

 

[ICTGoober]

Re: HELP! CONRAD ARCHTOP PICKUPS OR PICKUPS AND RINGS???!!!

Not P-90's of the soapbar shape - dogear.... they had the screw hole on the tips to mount to the body.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: HELP! CONRAD ARCHTOP PICKUPS OR PICKUPS AND RINGS???!!!

Not p90. The holes are bigger. They just used big bezels on those hollows back then. Mostly Japanese. Here is the model I had, in different colors.
Look closer at the op photos and you will see two screw holes at each end of the hole, one at each corner. His bezels were rectangular. You can see the line in the finish at the neck pickup hole.