Tele Neck Pickup: How do I mount it?

[ImmortalSix]

Stupid, stupid, stupid question.

I have a Tele neck pickup, 2 springs, and 2 screws. What goes where?

Does anyone have a picture of how they go together?

Granted, there are only so many ways they can go together :laughing:

This is proving to be difficult, primarily because I am working with purpleheart - which is a wood only slightly harder than iron. Nothing "simply screws down" as the hardware manufacturer intended, so lots of things that are usually apparent are a challenge on this body.

Thank you guys

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: Tele Neck Pickup: How do I mount it?

You know you want to...

 

[bluesbend]

Re: Tele Neck Pickup: How do I mount it?

Am I correct in assuming that you aren't using a pickguard?
If so, center the p'up in the routed area under the strings where it belongs, take an awl and make a mark through the screw holes, remove the p'up, drill where you've marked, start the screws, get a piece of foam rubber to place under the p'up to act as the spring, you can figure the rest.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Tele Neck Pickup: How do I mount it?

Traditionally it would be screwed into the wood. So you have no tread in the baseplate (screw just slips through) and you use wood screws. Nothing is visible on the pickguard.

Modern variants do it Strat style, with a tread in the baseplate and Strat style (machine) screws through the pickguard.

If nothing fits you probably have screws for one style and baseplate for the other, or the wrong pickguard, or all of the above.

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: Tele Neck Pickup: How do I mount it?

Am I correct in assuming that you aren't using a pickguard?
If so, center the p'up in the routed area under the strings where it belongs, take an awl and make a mark through the screw holes, remove the p'up, drill where you've marked, start the screws, get a piece of foam rubber to place under the p'up to act as the spring, you can figure the rest.

I'm using a pickguard.

Traditionally it would be screwed into the wood. So you have no tread in the baseplate (screw just slips through) and you use wood screws. Nothing is visible on the pickguard.

Modern variants do it Strat style, with a tread in the baseplate and Strat style (machine) screws through the pickguard.

If nothing fits you probably have screws for one style and baseplate for the other, or the wrong pickguard, or all of the above.

I think you're right - wrong screws. These screws don't just slip through.

I will get some stainless steel screws (the only thing that can be used, really, in purpleheart) and screw it in.

I still don't know what the springs are for or where they are intended to go.

I don't really care though - I will not be adjusting this pickup much, if ever.

 

[marcello252]

Re: Tele Neck Pickup: How do I mount it?

I still don't know what the springs are for or where they are intended to go.

I don't really care though - I will not be adjusting this pickup much, if ever.

then use spacers, I had them for years under my jb when I used to mount it directly on the wood in my strat (vh style)

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: Tele Neck Pickup: How do I mount it?

You should drill pilot holes in the body if you're direct mounting in any wood, just putting screws in will cause it to splinter out the hole. Being purpleheart you'll want to do this just so you don't break a screw off. A piece of foam under the pickup works well for spring action.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Tele Neck Pickup: How do I mount it?

+1. Definately pilot holes...the diameter of the shaft of the screw so only the threads are cutting into the wood.