Lace Dually pickup mounting problem - created 01-04-2011

Schuler, Michael - 01/04/2011.14:35:58
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I'm in the process of building a guitar from parts and am having trouble with a Lace Sensor Dually "humbucker", namely: the height adjustment screw holes on the pickup are 80mm apart and the holes on the mounting ring I have (Stewart MacDonald 2076-B solid metal ring) are 78mm apart. Therefore the screws are not perpendicular to either the pickup or the ring and bind up. Lace customer services says that the distance is in fact 80mm (that it is not a fabrication error) but that they've never had a problem mounting their pickups.

So I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar problem. My options appear to be (in order of preference): use a different ring (assuming that I can find one that works), bend the pickup legs, go with a different pickup, or grind out the pickup ring mounting holes.

Michael,

I just measured a selection of rings I keep around as samples and all of them fell in between 77.8 and 78.6 mm. You'll need to either bend in the tabs on the Lace pickups or order some custom rings for them. If you don't mind a bit of fudging you can possibly grind the ring holes to "move" them out by 1 mm each and hope that the screw heads will hide the old hole's edges. I'd do this with a Dremel tool (or a milling machine which you probably don't have).

There is a place that makes many different rings from Aluminum and they seem like a good place to start for a custom set if they don't have what you need. They charge about $16 ea which isn't bad considering.

Try http://www.fretsonthenet.com/other_parts.htm

David,

Thanks for the feedback. I'll probably try adjusting the legs, as that is probably the least work and easiest to undo.

Thanks also for the Frets on the Net link - I don't think I'll need it this time, but custom fabrication might be something intersting for a future project.