Strat pickup steel base plates

[Chadheckler1]

Those of you who use them: Where are you guys getting your strat steel base plates from?

I could only find this place but they are $8.75 a piece. I will make them myself before I pay $8.75!

http://www.callahamguitars.com/partsstr.htm

Thanks in advance!

[David Schwab]

Why not make your own?

[Chadheckler1]

I think i might...I was just concerned about getting some type of plating on them after I cut them out. I guess being exposed on the edges won't hurt anything.

I was also just curious as to what thickness to start with. Is the assumption that more mass reduces more treble pretty safe to say?

[PAF-Boy]

Hello,
I had made a load of telebaseplates a few years back and we used a thicker material.I think the fatter baseplates give more bottom to the tone than the thin.
For my stat pickups I use rectangular plates glues under the magnets.
best,works fine.
P.

[Possum]

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Caswell Plating has some good stuff for plating your own metals. Personally I don't like what the strat baseplates do to the tone, it kind of squelches free movement of the magnetic field on the bottom of the pickup, maybe thats not a scientific view but thats how it sounds to me as well, it sounds tight and choked vs. not using one. It works for teles and is good for traditional tele tones, but try a tele bridge without a baseplate sometime and you'll hear what I mean there as well.