Why do Trembuckers have three mounting holes per side?

[Artie]

Someone else's thread got me to wondering this. The outside two holes seem too close together for typical "3-screw" mounting styles. Why are Trembuckers done this way?

 

[orpheo]

I remember a story from long ago that the 3 hole setup was to do one of two things: either mount it in a regular ring, or mount it in one of those wonky rings from way-back-when that had two screw holes so you could adjust the tilt.

Something like this:

 

[Artie]

That's cool. I've never seen one of those before.

 

[ICTGoober]

Schaller used to sell them back in the 80's. I don't know if they still do. If I remember correctly, they made them for Shadow pickups which had 4 holes.

 

[Artie]

I imagine it would be easy enough to drill the two extra holes to convert a standard mounting ring.

 

[orpheo]

Schaller used to sell them back in the 80's. I don't know if they still do. If I remember correctly, they made them for Shadow pickups which had 4 holes.

https://schaller.info/en/frames/225/pickup-frames-triple-holes?c=58

Yup, still available

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

Someone else's thread got me to wondering this. The outside two holes seem too close together for typical "3-screw" mounting styles. Why are Trembuckers done this way?

Weight relief

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

^ 20 years ago now, a very big floating oil platform was being built by a very big oil company. The floater was being built in Korea. We had to stop calling the holes cut in brackets etc. "lightening holes" because the Koreans couldn't understand how holes would affect lightning strikes. We had to start calling them weight relief holes instead.

 

[ErikH]

The outside holes aren't thread tapped though so that would have to be done. I've never used them.

 

[ICTGoober]

The outside holes aren't thread tapped though so that would have to be done. I've never used them.

No one has EVER tapped the holes in pickup rings that I'm aware of....

 

[Artie]

Also interesting, (perhaps), is that the PATB series trembuckers are traditional 1-hole. (per side)

 

[Artie]

^ 20 years ago now, a very big floating oil platform was being built by a very big oil company. The floater was being built in Korea. We had to stop calling the holes cut in brackets etc. "lightening holes" because the Koreans couldn't understand how holes would affect lightning strikes. We had to start calling them weight relief holes instead.

That's funny. It was only about a month ago, I read about some product where they had to change the name in Korea, because it roughly translated to "poop."

 

[ErikH]

No one has EVER tapped the holes in pickup rings that I'm aware of....

The BASEPLATES, sir. The baseplates.

 

[Chistopher]

I once mounted a pickup using those 4 holes along with drywall nails. Unfortunately they went all the way through and I had to cut them flush and then repaint the guitar. But it was a First Act, so no emotional toil was involved.

 

[Mincer]

Yes, outside holes aren't tapped, and don't line up with, say, Fender's, system of 3 hole mounts. The 3 holes make it easier to spot a Trembucker, though.

 

[Artie]

I once mounted a pickup using those 4 holes along with drywall nails.

I bet tweaking pickup height was a b***h.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

That's funny. It was only about a month ago, I read about some product where they had to change the name in Korea, because it roughly translated to "poop."

In the early 2000s I was working for a European offshore pipeline contractor that had only recently entered the US market. We got into a lot of trouble with the genteel ladies here in Houston. Whereas the Aberdeen lasses were quite thick skinned, I suppose, and used to highly technical terms for some of our tools like "donkey d#ck"...

 

[beaubrummels]

Someone else's thread got me to wondering this. The outside two holes seem too close together for typical "3-screw" mounting styles. Why are Trembuckers done this way?

Answer: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/for...embucker-mounting-holes?p=3645661#post3645661

 

[Chistopher]

I bet tweaking pickup height was a b***h.

I did it because that was the only way to get it low enough, and even then I would have wanted it lower

 

[formula73]

All this time and I never noticed the outer holes were untapped.