Pickup foam pads vs rubber grommets

[stsang]

All this talk makes me want some cheese!

Well - it is your birthday - you can have what you want! Happy Birthday!

[jps]

Thanks, Simon?

[iiipopes]

Actually, somewhere on the RIC forum, Mr. JH says that the foam rings, as opposed to the grommets, can damp the tendency to feedback a little better.

[paologregorio]

My solution on a couple of guitars was to use pale gray foam strip insulation wrapped around the toaster pieces thoroughly enough to fill the pickup rout, while keeping the grommets at the four corners of the pickup. The solution appears to be effective.

[analogpackrat]

I wonder if little circles cut out of a black neoprene mouse pad would work better than a stack of grommets? Would that react with the finish?

[Grey]

The foam pads also have that useless strip of adhesive on the top. The pad dosen't match up exactly to the baseplate of the pickup so there is a bit of overlap where dirt and dust and whatever else gets stuck to the exposed adhesive and looks nasty.

What I do with a new pad is turn it upside down, so that the side with the adhesive backing is facing the body with the paper covering left on. That insulates the foam from the finish so that it dosen't stain, and there is no adhesive to get gunked up on the top.

[IHeartRics]

Unfortunately that would be too high, wouldn't it?!
At the pickguard there is a screw that goes through the grommets, if wanted You could put three or four in a row quite easy. So far, so good.

At the PUs there only the adjusting screws. The four "corner screws" (I mean those ones that keep the whole PU together) are much too short. Wouldn't the grommets slip away?

You might be right - of course, I haven't tried for myself. If you screw down a bit that might provide enough pressure to keep the corner grommets in place - or they might just spring out and fall into the soundhole... Maybe a better solution is to look for larger (thicker) grommets from your local hardware store? Sorry - I don't think I'm helping anymore!

Basically the grommets get squashed and over time retain that flatness and don't spring back up. There is a small hole on them so it you stack them maybe you could put something in the hole to give it support and keep the stack together?

[Hotzenplotz]

Yes! I could cut an old grommet into small stripes for that!

Or: I use vulcanisation glue for inner tubes.


@all: How far (minimum/ maximum) should the toasters stay away from the strings?