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12-25-2010, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Queen Creek AZ | | | I need help with my strat
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The pickups are never in place. They always wiggle around, I took the pickguard off and would'nt you know it. No screws! Is there anywere I can buy them or will foam or cloth work? |
12-25-2010, 02:30 PM
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Mojo FunkBasses | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Somewhere in Arizona | | | Best thing I can suggest is that you trade it in for a bass. Problem solved.
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12-25-2010, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Queen Creek AZ | | | haha its my brothers haha |
12-25-2010, 02:45 PM
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Gear Reviews MusicianYou Magazine | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA | | | Screws and springs should be available at a store. Probably have to ask for them.
I've used a cut up computer mouse pad and thin aquarium tubing (spring substitute, can also get thin tubing at Lowe's for like 25 cents for more than you'll ever need.) |
12-25-2010, 03:03 PM
| | | | foam or mousepads won't work with a strat (they push the wrong way); the screws need to be surrounded by springs or rubber tubing to hold the covers down against the pickups, and the pickup screws down against the pickguard.
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12-25-2010, 03:24 PM
| | | | Gotta have the screws with springs or tubing. Go to the guitar center or any music shop, they'll have them. You can also get the screws at home depot, #6 x 3/4" machine screws, but the tubing is tough to find. some hobby shops, medical supply. It's easiest to just get a strat P'up screw set at the music store, (or online, ebay) if you want it right. I build a lot of guitars.
hope this helped |
12-25-2010, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Queen Creek AZ | | | it sure did thanks but i have never heard of tubing with the springs usually one or the other |
12-25-2010, 08:24 PM
| | | | Yes, one or the other, never both. Springs you'll have to get in a strat P'up screw set, (the right kind any way)tubing can be bought separate online, but people charge way too much for just some pieces of rubber tubing. Finding it in the real world, for me, has been tough. hobby shops and medical supply, sometimes. |
12-25-2010, 09:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Queen Creek AZ | | | have you tried the ones on stewmac? they look like they will fit |
12-25-2010, 10:17 PM
| | | | No I havn't but I'll bet their perfect. Stewmac, though sometimes pricey, seem to have all their ducks in a row for any level of guitar appreciation |
12-26-2010, 11:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Queen Creek AZ | | | and i absoulutley have to buy tubing? |
12-26-2010, 12:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | Springs work fine. Leo used tubing first, but changed to springs. Tubing can break down.
But who sold one with all six screws and springs gone?!!?!
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