Or just sand an arch into the stock ones?
Or just sand an arch into the stock ones?
Hey Andrew, they have supplied you the wrong pickup surrounds, sure if you send an email to Adam he'll send you out the curved surrounds to suit the arch top of the LP.
Or you could get a file and file the rounded shape into the surrounds, the front surround is normally alot thinner than the rear, make sure there's enough meat on the neck surround to file a curve
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I'm at work now, getting my wife to send a few photos of the top and the sides of the pups. If you reckon they can be filed I'll do that, otherwise ill email Adam. Reason being it was the seconds guitar, only $120 so don't won't to be too much of a pain.
Andrew they will be pretty easy to file a curve into to match the shape of the arch top. The surrounds supplied are probably off an SG or IC kit which are flat tops. I've had to go the other way had arched surrounds on a flat top and I've managed to file them flat enough
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scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
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Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Here are the pups. I'll try file them down. Wish me luck haha.
As for pups themselves. How do they sound. I've got a set of epiphone lp pups from a mid 90's guitar. I swapped them out for a jb/59 combo 8 years ago so can't remember how the originals sound. Would the epis be better than stock? Kind of like the black covers though.
I'd put the epiphone pups in Andrew, they should sound better than the stock ones, although the stock ones still sound pretty good. Is there an issue using the epi pups with the stock surrounds ?
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MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
I have had the opposite problem. I've got a flat-top SG (non-PBG) with arched covers, and my MB (PBG) kit came with arched surrounds too. It's not that hard to sand the plastic down to flat, so I imagine (as Woks said) it wouldn't be hard to do an arch either.
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Not too sure if the surrounds work with the epis. Ill check it tonight. In the mean time my phone will not let me upload photos.
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