Tele copperplate

[Ian Colfer]

I wanna fit copper coated plates to the bottom of my 'mex classic' bridge p'ups on my strat & tele to increase thick mid (particularly on the strat).I'm looking for as much info as I can get e.g. where to buy them..how to install them..should I install them..etc.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Tele copperplate

I stock the Bassplate you're talking about but it will only work on a vintage style pickup. If your pickups have a ceramic magnet glued to the bottem of them the bassplate won't fit on. They have to be flat on the bottem and they are held on just like the Bassplate on a vintage Tele bridge pickup: melted wax. I'd only use it on the bridge pickup. It'll add maybe 5% more bass and lower mids to the tone of the pickup.

PM me if you need more info.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Tele copperplate

Hey Lew, do you know what a steel baseplate would do as opposed to a copper one?

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Tele copperplate

I've been told that they are all steel and that the copper ones are just steel plated in copper. I don't know what diff the copper plating makes or why some are plated and some are not. Maybe something to do with coming into contact with the bottem of the polepieces when the plate is waxed on? I always put small piece of masking tape over the ends of the polepieces before waxing, but I do it so there's no chance of rattling. Lew

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Tele copperplate

Oh, good to know then. Thanks Lew.

 

[Kelsey]

Re: Tele copperplate

I imagine that it's easier to solder the ground wire to a copper plated steel plate than a bare steel plate. The earliest Tele pickups actually had a zinc plating on the steel base plate (e.g., Nocaster pickups).

 

[mrfjones]

Re: Tele copperplate

I imagine that it's easier to solder the ground wire to a copper plated steel plate than a bare steel plate. The earliest Tele pickups actually had a zinc plating on the steel base plate (e.g., Nocaster pickups).

very right, that is what the baseplate is made of on my voodoo tele pickups

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Tele copperplate

I didn't have any big problems with soldering a ground wire to the baseplate (steel) I attached to the bridge unit of my Fender CS 62 pickups.

BTW, the bridge pickup on the Albert Lee set has a steel bar atached to the bottom of it, not a copper plate.

 

[Ian Colfer]

Re: Tele copperplate

thanks Lew, I'm in Wales UK, how would I go about getting a baseplate off you...how much etc.,and if you do 'em to fit a strat bridge p'up I'd have one of those as well?..yes they are alnico slugs not bar magnets.