Thought I’d share some “R&D”
When I installed the Gibson Reissue pickups in my Orville, I found the new pickups were thinner (top to bottom).
I couldn’t really get the new pickups up high enough without running out of thread on the screws. I suppose I could get longer screws, but having recently solved a similar problem when I put a Tbird cover on my Casady’s pickup, I decided to make a pickup spacer with integrated 4-40 nuts. That allows using 4-40 stainless machine screws instead of wood screws.
I had drawn the Casady bracket in a web based Autodesk program called TinkerCad:
Then the file gets imported into Slicer software to run the 3D printer. I figured out how to pause the print, so I could embed the nuts. Then the printer can continue adding plastic layers:
The finished version looked like this:
For the Tbird, I wanted a flatter spacer, and didn’t need that height. I left room for the pickup wire to exit the cavity. I also put a channel underneath so the neck pu wire could travel under the spacer:
Here it is installed. The PLA plastic is pretty weak and I’ve had to epoxy the pieces over the nuts.
This worked and I’m able to get that bridge pickup up high, where it needs to be to keep up with the neck pickup.
……And we’re also printing articulated creatures like this dragon:
When I installed the Gibson Reissue pickups in my Orville, I found the new pickups were thinner (top to bottom).
I couldn’t really get the new pickups up high enough without running out of thread on the screws. I suppose I could get longer screws, but having recently solved a similar problem when I put a Tbird cover on my Casady’s pickup, I decided to make a pickup spacer with integrated 4-40 nuts. That allows using 4-40 stainless machine screws instead of wood screws.
I had drawn the Casady bracket in a web based Autodesk program called TinkerCad:
Then the file gets imported into Slicer software to run the 3D printer. I figured out how to pause the print, so I could embed the nuts. Then the printer can continue adding plastic layers:
The finished version looked like this:
For the Tbird, I wanted a flatter spacer, and didn’t need that height. I left room for the pickup wire to exit the cavity. I also put a channel underneath so the neck pu wire could travel under the spacer:
Here it is installed. The PLA plastic is pretty weak and I’ve had to epoxy the pieces over the nuts.
This worked and I’m able to get that bridge pickup up high, where it needs to be to keep up with the neck pickup.
……And we’re also printing articulated creatures like this dragon:
I think my favorite '80s bands were Talk Talk, The Pretenders, The Specials, Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush.
(I always do)
