Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I can not remember if there is any difference between bass and guitar toasters ?

The mounting holes - bass toasters have threaded mounting holes so the can be mounted to the 'guard. As guitar toasters are effectively screwed on to the top of the guitar, the mounting holes are unthreaded. Otherwise the bass and guitar toasters are identical.

Rick, if all you can get is a guitar toaster, you can superglue a nut to the bottom of the aluminum plate and still use it on the bass pickguard.

So, the hole in the guitar toaster is larger? In other words, you can't just tap it without using a larger screw?

cjj wrote:So, the hole in the guitar toaster is larger? In other words, you can't just tap it without using a larger screw?

Correct.

cjj wrote:So, the hole in the guitar toaster is larger? In other words, you can't just tap it without using a larger screw?

CJ, on a guitar you use a wood screw and mount the pickups to the wood itself. So the hole is drilled bigger and not threaded to allow the wood screw to go through. Thus why you would glue a nut to the bottom of the aluminum plate to allow the threaded screw through the bass pickguard to have something to "bite" and hold it.

johnallg wrote:

cjj wrote:So, the hole in the guitar toaster is larger? In other words, you can't just tap it without using a larger screw?

CJ, on a guitar you use a wood screw and mount the pickups to the wood itself. So the hole is drilled bigger and not threaded to allow the wood screw to go through. Thus why you would glue a nut to the bottom of the aluminum plate to allow the threaded screw through the bass pickguard to have something to "bite" and hold it.

Actually, I'd probably press in a PEM nut, but then I know about those sorts of things...