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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!

you need a spanking !

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!

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.

No, it wouldn't!

jps wrote:No, it wouldn't!

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.

Tarrbot wrote:

jps wrote:No, it wouldn't!

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.

Onacounta you're a standup guy!

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.

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 ! )


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.

I would love to get one for my '76 4001 with horseshoe minus shoes. I agree that a chrome option would also be nice.

Everyone should own a Dremel. I have three. Those and a roll of duct tape are like MacGyver DNA.

Hmm, I don't own a Dremel... I do have a Bridgeport mill and several air die grinders though...

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.

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.

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