Mounting info/Mechanical Drawings

[PowerChords]

I am building a solid body guitar from scratch (thanks to Melvyn His**** and Martin Koch for their terrific books), and I am at the stage of drawing blueprints. I have been all over the SD site, FAQs, and this forum and can find nothing to help me get further along in my designing. I plan on using the Antiquity P-90s with soap-bar covers in both the neck and bridge positions. The salient facts I need are:

- How deep do I need to route the pocket into the face of the guitar?
FYI, the guitar will have a carved top of quilted maple, just like a 'Paul.

- What is the string spread on each (i.e. how far apart are the pole pieces on each pickup)?

- Screwed in, Glued in, or Hammered in?

The dog-ear style is obvious in terms of mounting, but what about the soap bar style?

I suppose I could just break down and buy the wretched things, but at this early stage, I don't really want to start buying hardware until I need it.

Any insights, anybody?

 

[Artie]

Re: Mounting info/Mechanical Drawings

Click on the big "S" graphic in the upper, left-hand corner, and that will take you to the Duncan homepage. Click on: Products>Electric then whatever catagory you want. Under each pups listing is several links, like: see hear specs dimensions

Click on the "dimensions" link for engineering drawings.

 

[PowerChords]

Re: Mounting info/Mechanical Drawings

Thanks, ArtieToo...

The drawing and the table of spec values helped me a bit. Now, can anyone give me a number with regards to the pole piece spacing on the Antiquity soapbars? I am designing the neck of my guitar in such a way that the strings pass directly over the pole pieces where I place the pickups on the body. I can extrapolate all the information with regards to necessary string spread along the neck, which in turn will give me an appropriate nut width to be used in conjunction with the Gotoh Stop and Tuno bridge system.

My idea is to place the neck position pickup so that the pole pieces fall right where the 24th fret would be. The bridge pickup would be placed probably close to the 36th fret position. Both of course are dependent upon scale length. Mind you, I haven't worked out the math fully, and these are just speculative numbers.

Sorry to be a pest about this...I do appreciate any insights you guys can give me.