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03-04-2010, 11:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | String Mounted Jack
Just a question I wanted to throw out there... Do any of you guys know where one can buy a string mounted jack(just the jack and jack plate that is held by 2 strings). It is for building a pickup.
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03-04-2010, 04:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Syracuse N.Y. | | | You could make one from a piece of thin sheet metal; bend the sides, then drill a hole in the middle for a jack. What kind of pick up are you making? |
03-04-2010, 05:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Haven, Mich | | | jack
Fishman sells replacement jacks, the link below is for the full circle but it should work for you. http://www.fishmanparts.com/shopexd.asp?id=68 |
03-04-2010, 08:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | Thanks! That is exactly what I am looking for. Actually, it might be even better as the RCA connector will let me swap out pickups... |
03-04-2010, 08:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Haven, Mich | | | You're welcome Adrian. Fishman is expensive for what you are getting but it might save you time and trouble and give you more time to work on your pickups.
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03-04-2010, 11:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: on the bottom in sw ohio | | | The jack for the Fishman Full Circle actually has a passive filter network inside of it and is intended specifically for the FC. Using it with another pickup probably would have unpredictable results. Although it's not listed on fishmanparts.com, perhaps you could get the jack assembly for the BP-100 from Fishman. It's just a simple jack, and doesn't contain a filter network. |
03-04-2010, 11:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by robgrow  The jack for the Fishman Full Circle actually has a passive filter network inside of it and is intended specifically for the FC. Using it with another pickup probably would have unpredictable results. Although it's not listed on fishmanparts.com, perhaps you could get the jack assembly for the BP-100 from Fishman. It's just a simple jack, and doesn't contain a filter network. | Can you expand on this filter and what it does?
I havent used the jack with anything else, but I have used the FC pickup through other RCA connections and never noticed any difference? |
03-05-2010, 06:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by robgrow The jack for the Fishman Full Circle actually has a passive filter network inside of it and is intended specifically for the FC. Using it with another pickup probably would have unpredictable results. Although it's not listed on fishmanparts.com, perhaps you could get the jack assembly for the BP-100 from Fishman. It's just a simple jack, and doesn't contain a filter network. | That is interesting. I wasn't aware of that. I have yet to order a jack from Fishman... Doesn't look like a BP100 jack is available. |
03-06-2010, 02:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chelmsford UK | | | K&K do them, its a solder job tho |
03-06-2010, 07:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | I wasn't aware that I could buy a separate jack from K&K. Soldering is no problem. |
03-06-2010, 08:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | That is a bit too bulky for me. I'll look into the K&K. Emailing Bob G... |
03-06-2010, 08:51 AM
| | I'm absent from Talkbass for an indefinite period | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Québec, Canada | | | I recommend Switchcraft jacks; they're the best!
The ones coming with K&K pickups are somewhat cheap, IMHO, with all due respect to K&K.
It was a similar jack coming with my Shadow SH951 and I recently reaplced it with a Switchcraft.
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03-06-2010, 11:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: on the bottom in sw ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Francois Blais I recommend Switchcraft jacks; they're the best!
The ones coming with K&K pickups are somewhat cheap, IMHO, with all due respect to K&K.
It was a similar jack coming with my Shadow SH951 and I recently reaplced it with a Switchcraft. | +1 Switchcraft 121 is the model number. |
12-18-2010, 12:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Bellingham, WA | | | Does Switchcraft make a string mounted jack? Any word from Bob G?
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12-19-2010, 08:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Connecticut, USA | | | I made this one with a locking Neutrik cable mount jack, two rubber grommets from the hardware store and a velcro cable tie. The rubber grommets isolate the housing from the tailpiece and the velcro loops through the string mounting holes in the tailpiece. Snug & reliable.
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