Grinding Down A EMG Pickup To Fit It In A Smaller Routing (Chop Shop EP.1)
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Can you alter the shape of an EMG pickup without ruining it? In this episode we'll grind down a EMG pickup, and see whats inside. We will remove part of the EMG shell to fit the 40 Sized humbucker EMG into a P2 pickup route used by brands like Bartolini and Nordstrand.
Will tearing the pickup down cause damage, or will it survive being altered? Let's find out!
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For Science! 🤘
The Comrade is back! :D
I've bought EMG 40 X-series pickups to replace the stock Jackson humbuckers in my 5-string, and surprise-surprise, EMGs appeared to be about 1mm larger than the stock pups. So I had to take off layers of lacquer and paint in the cavities to make room for the new electronics. Was a PITA to do (and then I had to "marry" EMG's QuickConnect with the onboard preamp that has solder connections only), took about 8 hours altogether, but I'm more than happy with the result. This bass is finally the instrument worth playing, and keeping :)
Glad to hear you found your right bass. Amazing what can happen if you modify something to fit you, rather than always uying the newest shiny thing.
That's really the best experiment that ever happened...hands down
Great Episode Rodney.
This could be like the bass version of Monster Garage.
I appreciate you sharing your experience in making modifications
to a bass. It reminds me of how EVH would modify his guitars to get
the sound and playability he wanted.
Good Stuff !
Glad you enjoyed it!
That looks like some of the dangerous stuff that I do all of the time.. LOL.. Whatever it takes to make it work.. And 99% of the time it does work..
Fortune favors the daring!
Bring the next one over to the shop and put it on my belt sander. Awesome show as usual. Thanks
Don't trust me with a belt sander. Too much like the one ring. I would be consumed by the power.
Great idea for a series dude. So many will save so much money getting over the fear of DIY.
This actually sounds like a job for a Bridgeport (most machine shops have one). Machine tolerance can get within .003 of an inch. May take a minute and few passes but I'm sure I could do it with a sharp end mill.
...... but I have a sander....😂
@@RodneyMcG Well played Sir, well played.
Ahh, that lovely EMG "PING" sound.
This sounds like a fun project.
Man, I love the room. Very cool. Makes you think of a wizard's laboratory.
There's definitely a bit of hogwarts in here 😂
Just route the bass imo, being that I build guitars and basses I think I have pretty good insight on this because pickups tend to be very delicate and I only buy a bass if I know I'm going to keep it. As far as like the shell of the bass if I decide to change something about it like the pickups I like to make my instruments unique if I'm going to mod it anyway just route it for your preferred pickups maybe play with the neck shape if desired and slap a cool paintjob on it and boom you have something nobody else does that's your own thing
Many ways to skin that cat
Did you even watch the video?
@@roberthofmann932 yeah I did, I see that he got away with it. My point is that if you're going to commit to a bass you should just get it routed and do stuff to it and make it yours , if you're walking on thin ice you might as well dance as it were.
I just wish emg would make bartolini and nordstrand sized pickups. As well as a version of the MM type pickup where it would fit in basses like the stiletto stealth 5 from schecter. Just a thought lol
I've brought up the point with them. It mostly comes down to guaranteed demand. It costs a lot to make a ne line of gear, and in tough economic times, you need to be sure it will pay off for the investment.
Very happy you made this video so quickly!! I’m really looking forward to chop shop!! I want to learn how to mod soooo badly!! Like change preamps and pickups and add new switches with a series , single , parallel switches things like that! Very cool series Rodney!!🤘🙏
Solid idea. More options are always better.
Thanks for doing the experiment for us. For some basses it’s probably worth risking a little bit of plastic of a mass product instead of a unique bass body
Thanks!
Welcome!
Great vid Rodney!!! 🤘🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
Translation: teeny, tiny bit = RCH.
What are the dimensions of the pickups now, after everything is said and done? How much room is there in the pickup rout? I've got a few Ibanez basses that I'd like to change the pickups on and any info is always helpful.
You don't want to go off my personal measurements. I was pushing things a bit. Plus, my route size may not be the same as yours. When you're dealing with a small tolerance, you want to measure your route, and keep measuring the pickup as you sand to take off the least amount of material needed.
Thanks very much for this! I was thinking of having my bass routed to install EMGs. At the end of the day, I liked my tone enough to stay with the Barts. I'll never understand why they don't make stuff like this universal.
I won't say limiting competition might have something to do with it, but limiting competition has something to do with it.
I've literally been planning on doing this for months. I have a ibanez sr500 that I want to put emgs in. Did the emgs work with the ibanez preamp. Killer video man loved this channel. I wanted to try and route the cavities buy this might be easier.
I didn't hook them into the preamp, but there's no reason it wouldn't work.
problem with my bass (cort a4 plus) is that it uses a bartolini p2 5 string pickup but its a 4 string and with unconventional spacing (20mm)
You should be able to get 5 string pickups to work fine in it.
@@RodneyMcG thanks man! i’m gonna do that
Do you know who makes a notched straight edge for 24 fret bass neck?
You can find them on ebay and amazon
How would one modify a bass into piccolo bass?
Just buy lighter strings and do a setup
I see that stonehead back there!!
12 minutes of blah blah blah 👎
15 seconds of wha, wha, wha😭😭