Easy Way to Change Guitar Pickup Rings
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- Опубліковано 24 жов 2019
- Short Tutorial covering how to change the pickup rings on a humbucker style guitar pickup. My method revolves around using a strong grip to pre-compress the spring on the pickup surround to allow you to more easily thread the screw through the baseplate.
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Great tutorial thanks.
thanks, didn't even know about the spring inside.....!
I just did this on a guitar with pickups already wired in, so there wasn't enough slack to hold the pickup like that, but I used a similar method to make sure the springs didn't just pop to kingdom come. Success. Thanks for the vid!
I'm glad it could be of some help to you! Springs sure can take on a life of thier own if you aren't careful!
ThankQ, Great tutorial...
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!
Of course! Glad I could help out
Hi Awen, great tutorial, thanks very much for sharing your tips. I wanted to ask an off-topic question, however it is to do with the pickup rings in my guitar... My ‘66 Hagström 12 string has some pretty bad microphonic feedback; the squeal is most prevalent when I’m using moderate gain. I think the source of the squeal is likely the metal rings housing the single coil pickups, since whenever I tap on the rings with some gain, it causes a shrill “ping”. My question is, how would you go about dampening the vibrations of the metal rings in this system? The issue seems to be that the rings obviously surround the whole pickup and are very thin, so there’s no real flat surfaces to attach some adhesive material, as you would with say, a humbucker cover. Plus, I think it will be difficult to set the rings in place during reassembly. I’ve not seen this pickup mounting system used by any other brands - it seems unique to Hagström. The guitar has a Stratocaster-esque pickguard, yet has metal rings to attach the pickups to the pickguard. I’ve described the system poorly but you’ll be able to see it online. Thanks again and apologies for the long comment:)
Hi, I'm glad you liked the video! You have a very interesting problem alright. Usually, microphonic pickups can be due to them not being potted or the potting breaking down. Under normal circumstances, I would say that you should go get them potted and be done with it, but since it is a vintage guitar, I'd guess that this wouldn't be an ideal solution for you. A less invasive method would be to get some wax and melt it into the gaps on the back of your pickup between the baseplate and the cover if they have them. I would use a soldering iron to heat up the baseplate and then any wax you put onto it will simply melt and flow where it needs to go. It's not as effective as proper potting, but it has sorted things out for me more than once and if you clean and careful, it won't change the look at all.
Shielding would be another thing to look into, but again since it's a vintage guitar maybe coating the inside with shielding paint isn't something you want to do.
It sounds silly, but if you simply unscrew your mounting rings and then screw them back on, this may just reseat everything and make the problem less, if not go away. You'd be amazed how often this works. Alternatively, try to get some foam in underneath the pickups and this sometimes has a dampening effect that helps.
Can you do the mounting ring change without taking the pickup out of the guitar or disconnecting it ?
Yes, you can indeed.
It might be a little bit more difficult if you aren't able to pull out the wire very far, but you can definitely swap the rings without disconnecting the pickups.
I would recommend laying a cloth on the top of the guitar around the pickup, to protect the finish, just in case.
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Hi Awen, i just bought a Squire classic Vibe Custom Telecaster, can`t send you a picture here, but if you Google, it has a Wide Range Pick- up in the Neck, i got very bad reports on this Pick up, so Still in the Post, i plan to remove the Wide range , and fit a regular size like the H90 , now the Regular pup`s is smaller, not bought yet, i suspect,,they have a mounting hole 2 , 1 each side mid way, where as the Wide range has 4 , its going to leave a large hole in the Guitar, and the regular will not fit, apparently there is a special adaptor Ring for this job, in the US called a PRA-B-H1 they are impossible to get in the UK and impossible even in China, no even come up on Google, nightmare, there is only 1 place in the US , plus a shady firm in Dubai, that does them the Hole space inside the PRA-B-H1 Ring, is 38.6 x 70.5 , will a regular pup fit snug in that spacing? have you seen anything done like this before? i assume, i have not bought a regular size pup yet, what is the normal size of a regular, for it to work as the American`s say it will, a regular Pup must be like a 1 or 2 mm smaller ie say 37 x 69 does this sound correct regards john