Mini-humbucker mounting?

[blakejcan]

I'm making a tele body with a mini-humbucker in the neck. I am not using a pickguard. I have routed the body for a mini-humbucker and wanted to use the metal, very flat looking firebird rings. My assumption is that I'd just do it like any normal humbucker with some screws and springs. I got my screws out and they are too small for the mini-humbucker. Do I need to get some weird mounting plate? Just different screws? What am I missing here?

 

[NegativeEase]

Blake, a lot of pro luthiers have said screw all of that mounting plate/spring BS and are using polyethylene packing foam that expands back fully. No Springs, wood screws and folded packing foam under the pickup compressed to about 3/4" and you can use scotch/masking take to keep it from coming unwrapped.

Im being serious -it's better in most ways -last longer and the resistance is consistent and you can dial height more accurately than springs.

It's the thin stuff you see around electronics

 

[jeremy]

on my black tele, i used two tiny nails and the foam that comes with duncan pups in the plastic box. on another tele i have a pickguard with screws, i dont remember them being different size but i can check when i get a chance

 

[blakejcan]

I'm open to the foam thing. I just want some nice matching chrome wood screws then

 

[NegativeEase]

I'm open to the foam thing. I just want some nice matching chrome wood screws then

BTW 3/4" is for my P90s -you will need to play around with the particular thickness of your pickups to get it in the preferred range of tension and motion -but 3/4 or an 1/8th less or more is likely where you will be in the end.

I was skeptical, but the folks at Fralin and some luthiers all said to trust them -and they were right...

Springs loss tension over time