Mini HB parts needed and a few Qs

[belwar]

for me the screws are the weird part of thid pickup. they are a completely custom screw. I think the are made just for this pickup.

im going to have a batch of these screw made.. maybe 20000 and ill just sell what I don't need on ebay or to anyone here who wants them. my co worker helped me draw the screw in solidworks. we started with a solid model of a 5-40 screw from mcmaster carr then altered the design to match the gibson screw I have.

anyone interest in screws?

im probably going to order them made from very low carbon steel non heat treated.

[David Schwab]

"the kit":

Is your blade sitting on top of the magnet? You should have that butted against the end.

[belwar]

The blades arent tall enough to "butt" against the face of the magnet. The blade is the same size as the bobbin and sory of sits on the edge of the magnet. Thats part of the reason these blades such.. The vintage gibi have is the same way.

[Peter Naglitsch]

Exactly. The blade has 50% of the surface of the "butt" sitting on the edge of the magnet. I wonder what difference a new type of blade would do. Imagine a blade that is longer (to fill the bobbin 100% lengthwise) and wider with a rebate cut into the blade so that it would reach down to the baseplate at the broadest part...a bit hard to explain, but if you make a couple on your CNC Belwar, I would like to try one out.

[David Schwab]

I'd make new blades for that, or even just stick a keeper under it. You can pick up some cold rolled steel bar stock at places like Home Depot. That works fine for pickups.

Now I get my steel bar stock from McMaster-Carr, but I made a bunch of pickups with the steel from home improvement stores.

I find it ironic that back in the 70's people hated those mini humbuckers in the LP Deluxe! I always saw people changing the pickups for full size humbuckers. Same thing with P-90's. Now they are both popular.

[Peter Naglitsch]

Everything goes in circles. Progress is just an illusion

Seriously thou, I think the big difference is that in the 60s and 70s there were no hi gain amps around. You needed a beefy pickup to drive the amp into distortion. Now you just crank the gain.

[David Schwab]

I agree. Now we have all kinds of high gain amps, plus amp modelers and stuff.

I like cleaner sounding pickups for guitar myself. It's more versatile that way.

[David Schwab]

GuitarJones has the screws listed now:

http://www.guitarjonesusa.com/catalo...on=show_detail

[belwar]

Those just dont look right to me.

The thread should be approx 2/3 of the screw, and there is a wierd taper on at the junction of the thread and head. Also the top of the head should have a slight chamfer on it. Overall, thumbs down.

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[Joe Gwinn]

Those just don't look right to me.

The thread should be approx 2/3 of the screw, and there is a weird taper on at the junction of the thread and head. Also the top of the head should have a slight chamfer on it. Overall, thumbs down.

The threads are rolled, not cut. Don't know how much it matters acoustically, but lots of screws have rolled threads.

[Peter Naglitsch]

I noticed those screw the other day.

The Allparts screws are about 2/3 threaded and have an ever so slight dome shape.

[Electricdaveyboy]

Hello,
do you guys know what size are the hight adjustment screws and nuts used for the Deluxe Humbuckers ?

Peace
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[GuitarmanUK]

Sorry error!

[Peter Naglitsch]

I just assumed they were standard HB height adjustment screws but they are not! The diameter is bigger. I think I'll just re-thread them for a metric M3 or something like that. Not very "vintage correct" but it will do for the first pickups. But if anyone have the measurements, please share

BTW: I've had some mail conversations with board memders and it turns out that, for non US customers, you have to be sure Allparts do not have a sales rep in your country to be able to buy directly.

[Possum]

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Don't you have to have the plastic P90 size cover to mount these in? What guitars will they work in it you don't have those....