BlackhawkRise
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Not if you bend them enough believe it or not. Most nonmagnetic stainless steels become partially magnetic if you repeatedly deform them.
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Not if you bend them enough believe it or not. Most nonmagnetic stainless steels become partially magnetic if you repeatedly deform them.
eclecticsynergy
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If you simply want to tighten up the lows a bit, you can shorten the existing filister screws so they're flush with the baseplate.
Not as pronounced a difference as switching to hex heads, but it'd save you matching the threads and sourcing hex screws.
Not hard to do with a Dremel.
Not as pronounced a difference as switching to hex heads, but it'd save you matching the threads and sourcing hex screws.
Not hard to do with a Dremel.
ThreeChordWonder
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At which point the screws will either break or be so bent up they won't be usable.
That's just plain silly. First of all, how are you going to bend them at all? Second, even if you could bend them how are they going to be even the slightest bit useful all deformed and with the threads messed up?
This.
When she mentioned "tone gremlins" and your "notes blending together", what she was saying was that your tone sucked because it was muddy.
If she could notice that problem in your guitar tone while playing with the rest of your band in a live situation, your tone problem is much bigger than the screws. Changing the screws in your pickups to ANY other type regardless of size, shape of head, or metal composition is not going to help.
You need to look at the bigger picture. At a minimum, consider reducing the mids on your amp and replacing those overwound pickups with lower output ones. Just because your pickups are "designed in America" (or even if they're "made in America") it doesn't necessarily mean they are good clean sounding pups, especially if they were designed to emphasize the mids or high output.
If she could notice that problem in your guitar tone while playing with the rest of your band in a live situation, your tone problem is much bigger than the screws. Changing the screws in your pickups to ANY other type regardless of size, shape of head, or metal composition is not going to help.
You need to look at the bigger picture. At a minimum, consider reducing the mids on your amp and replacing those overwound pickups with lower output ones. Just because your pickups are "designed in America" (or even if they're "made in America") it doesn't necessarily mean they are good clean sounding pups, especially if they were designed to emphasize the mids or high output.
devastone
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Take one out and go down to your local Ace Hardware with the helpful hardware folks and see if it fits a metric nut, or some similar situation.
devastone
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I like Black Oxide, of course, they are black, the zinc plated ones are silver.
Masta' C
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And you got her number, right?
Masta' C
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Zinc comes in both yellow and silver flavors. Most "zinc plated" small hardware will be silver, though.
That said, zinc isn't going to be as clean and shiny as proper nickel-plating
If your threads are M3, you can pick up some high quality nickel-plated hex poles in a great alloy here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125337203235
To find out what thread size you need for sure, just take a screw out of one of your pickups and match it up at your local hardware store.
BlackhawkRise
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Nah, us kids today use social media for that step, calling and texting are far too formal.
BlackhawkRise
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Nah, I think she was just trying to continue on the conversation, as I said earlier the tone gremlins comment was my own fabrication. There's nothing wrong with my sound, but I figured if I went out and said that the general response would be not to mess with a good thing. In fact, I think most of what she heard me playing was bass.
The fact that she knew polepieces effect tone confuses me though. Who walks around with that type of knowledge on hand.
Masta' C
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Sorry...did you get her "Insta"? Her "snap"? Am I even using the right pronouns? :lmao:
ThreeChordWonder
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I take it the Crocodile Dundee check ist verboten these days:dunno::laugh2:
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