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Re: Treble Pickup Bezel

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cjj wrote:OK, anyone who has a toaster pickup lying around, send it to me, I'll buy a bezel and take a picture... I promise! :twisted:

you need a spanking ! :twisted:
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cjj wrote:OK, anyone who has a toaster pickup lying around, send it to me, I'll buy a bezel and take a picture... I promise! :twisted:
Or... I could do something crazy and pull the neck toaster out of mine and put it in the bridge and take a pic of the bezel in it.

But that would be kinda crazy. ;)
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No, it wouldn't! :wink:
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jps wrote:No, it wouldn't! :wink:
I walked right into that one.













The worst part is I was smart enough to know it was going to happen but dumb enough to go through with it anyway. :oops:
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Tarrbot wrote:
jps wrote:No, it wouldn't! :wink:
I walked right into that one.













The worst part is I was smart enough to know it was going to happen but dumb enough to go through with it anyway. :oops:
Onacounta you're a standup guy! :lol:
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Re: Treble Pickup Bezel

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Despite my early Tuesdays nights due to seriously early Wednesday morning meetings, I took the S/5 apart and tried this.

My toaster doesn't fit through the opening in the bezel. I'm not sure the S/5 toaster is any wider than any other toaster but it was too wide to fit. Buttering the toasters hips won't get it through either.

FYI.
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The bridge pickup doesn't have a chrome cover on it. The toaster, or high gain does. The cover makes the pickup bigger. That's why it doesn't fit.
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but it can be modified just like the other things some of us do to our ricks, eh ? a little dremel work and, voila ! (i ruined it ! :lol: )


and also remember that there are different under string coil shapes, rectangular early '70's, rounder '80's, and then the v63 with the horseys off. that's a big coil. and these looked like they were hand finished on a belt sander so the shaping may be slightly off here and there.
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Re: Treble Pickup Bezel

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I would love to get one for my '76 4001 with horseshoe minus shoes. I agree that a chrome option would also be nice.
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Assuming they don't decide to make one of these to fit the larger horseshoe and S5 bridge pickup bobbins, I'll bet you could enlarge the opening with a Dremmel tool using the mini sanding drum attachment.
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Everyone should own a Dremel. I have three. Those and a roll of duct tape are like MacGyver DNA.
Can we have everything louder than everything else?
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Hmm, I don't own a Dremel... I do have a Bridgeport mill and several air die grinders though... :mrgreen:
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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FretlessOnly wrote:Everyone should own a Dremel. I have three. Those and a roll of duct tape are like MacGyver DNA.
In the hands of unskilled hacks, they're a luthier's worst nightmare.
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Re: Treble Pickup Bezel

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jingle_jangle wrote:
FretlessOnly wrote:Everyone should own a Dremel. I have three. Those and a roll of duct tape are like MacGyver DNA.
In the hands of unskilled hacks, they're a luthier's worst nightmare.
Or your best dream, depending on how much you charge per "nightmare". ;)
Assuming they don't decide to make one of these to fit the larger horseshoe and S5 bridge pickup bobbins
I'm not sure I follow this. Mine works with an S/5.
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Re: Treble Pickup Bezel

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Yeah, I thought the bobbins for the 4 and 5 string coils were the same one but with more holes.
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