At last the pickups have arrived so I’m on the final lap. The only problem is, they don’t fit!
The standard covers the pickups came with are designed to mount differently.
The pole pieces are slightly closer together…
The covers have 4 holes for mountings but the pickups have 2, one at each end..
All I can do is elongate the holes a little ….
and remove the lugs from the pickups.
At least they finally fit. I’ll put 2 short springs under each pickup rather than around the mounting screws.
With the pick-guard complete it’s time to fit the strings and complete the setup.
There is always a problem with these bridges, the springs can ping out of the slots if you try big bends, so once I’ve worked out which slot to use I’ll cut it just a little deeper….
Then I can carry out a standard setup. Thankfully I got the tension in the truss-rod right, otherwise I would have to take the neck off again, the adjustment is at the bottom of the neck.
Since it’s a new nut the action at the first fret is extremely high…
so I’ll cut each slot down to the right depth.
While I’m at the top end I’ll fit a string tree
With the action height at the bottom end on the 2 “E” strings set I’ll adjust the individual saddle heights to match the radius of the fretboard.
Lastly I’ll set the intonation and it’s all done…
