Vintage correct heigh adjustment screws....

[Possum]

Well, not that I personally care about these screws but my customers want them:
round head slotted, 3-48 1 1/4" long, nickel plate. Anyone found these anywhere?

[kevinT]

Well, not that I personally care about these screws but my customers want them:
round head slotted, 3-48 1 1/4" long, nickel plate. Anyone found these anywhere?

I've had requests too and I'm looking as well.

[Spence]

Well, not that I personally care about these screws but my customers want them:
round head slotted, 3-48 1 1/4" long, nickel plate. Anyone found these anywhere?

They only want them until a nano second before the screwdriver slips out and digs into the top of their guitars. Then they want you to pay for the repair.

[David Schwab]

They only want them until a nano second before the screwdriver slips out and digs into the top of their guitars. Then they want you to pay for the repair.

+1!

I can't stand slotted head screws in general.

[soundmasterg]

+1!

I can't stand slotted head screws in general.

Me neither.

Greg

[Bruce Johnson]

Well, not that I personally care about these screws but my customers want them:
round head slotted, 3-48 1 1/4" long, nickel plate. Anyone found these anywhere?

Are the customers willing to pay a high price for them? It's not a real big deal to make up a batch of screws like that. I could make up a dozen of them if you're desperate, or any decent CNC machine shop could run off a thousand of them for you. How much would you be willing to pay for each?

There's a surplus place near me which specializes in hardware, and they have thousands of sizes and types of machine screws, including many that are pre-aged. I'm sure I've seen 3-48, which used to be fairly common (50 years ago!). I can look next time I'm there.

I just checked McMasters, and they stock 3-48 slotted round heads up to 1" long, so 1 1/4" can't be too hard to find somewhere.

[David King]

http://www.guitarnucleus.com/gnstore/screws.html
Scroll down...
Has them in nickel, gold and black. About $.75 ea

I'm guessing they are not slot headed so maybe this is useless info.

[RedHouse]

Well, not that I personally care about these screws but my customers want them:
round head slotted, 3-48 1 1/4" long, nickel plate. Anyone found these anywhere?

Aww c'mon, don't you have some metalugically correct mounting screws?


(easy now, I'm just jerk'in yer chain)

[RedHouse]

Me neither.

Greg

Me neither,... except...

Well except say on my 2004 R9 Les Paul (custom shop) Historic ...I mean you pay for the one piece mahogany neck (no hidden Maple laminate) a long-tennon neck joint (no "rocker joint" full of glue) a correct carved flame maple top (no "Seargent Bilco" striped thing) a light weight single one-piece mahogany back (no split, or pancake)... and then ...one might actually want the "right" screws on the pickups ....who would dare? oh sorry, it must be a thing particular to particular people.

Now these things won't make sense to Epiphone "Les Paul" owners, Epiphone Les Paul Ultra-II/Zach Wylde/Ultra/Prophecy/CustomGX/Special-II/Standard/Custom/100/Special-II/ES335 Archtop Dot/Sheraton-II/G400-SG/G400 Custom SG/Gibson Les Paul Standards/Standard Premium Plus/Classic's/Customs/Studio/Studio Warn/Studio Premium Plus/Push-Tone/Traditional/Class-5/Supreme/Lefty/Jr/Melody Maker/SG 61 reissue...etc. ...ad infinitum...ad nausium.

BUT for someone who may own say a Les Paul 50th Anniversary, or an R7/R8/R9/R0, or a SG Standard VOS, or Jimmy Page/Jeff Beck/Mike Bloomfield guitar worth upwards of 4-6K ...might want correct screws maybe?



food for thought!

[salvarsan]

Well, not that I personally care about these screws but my customers want them:
round head slotted, 3-48 1 1/4" long, nickel plate. Anyone found these anywhere?

Cork sniffers, the lot of them.

We should start a thread on the importance of a certain magnetic gauss range in humbuckers.
Later, we introduce a modestly-priced consumer-grade gaussmeter.


<*blink*>
<sound of light bulb turning on>


Oh, uh...nevermind.
I didn't say nuthin.


-drh

[Possum]

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No they are not slot. Yes guys with high priced LP's and with my PAFs they want exact repro screws, I probably would too...

[belwar]

Cork sniffers, the lot of them.

We should start a thread on the importance of a certain magnetic gauss range in humbuckers.
Later, we introduce a modestly-priced consumer-grade gaussmeter.

Too late, dimarzio already Trademarked it.

[kevinT]

As Possum mentioned, if I too was trying to get my LP a certain way, I would want the correct screws.

The question is, what have they done with the screws that were there previously?

[David Schwab]

BUT for someone who may own say a Les Paul 50th Anniversary, or an R7/R8/R9/R0, or a SG Standard VOS, or Jimmy Page/Jeff Beck/Mike Bloomfield guitar worth upwards of 4-6K ...might want correct screws maybe?

You don't play screws! But I guess if you are buying it to collect it and not play it, then maybe that matters.

As Spence mentioned, sure, if you want to scratch up your nice expensive new guitar while trying to adjust the pickups...them be my guest.

I'd remove that crap and replace them with phillips heads the minute the new guitar was home.

All those other features, except the long neck tenon don't mean squat either. People just think they do. You wont hear any difference between a one or two piece mahogany body. They can't get the real good Honduras mahogany anymore anyway.

Speaking of screws... anyone seen these new tools from Stew-Mac?

Humbucker Helpers

I installed so many humbuckers one week that I was desperate to find a jig to hold the springs in place. I searched online and no one had anything. So I essentially rigged up the exact same thing using two pieces of phenolic PCB and a couple of standoffs and screws. The next day I was going to send the idea into Stew-Mac so I went to their website.... and there they were! it was kind of creepy! They weren't on their site two days before! (twilight zone music)

But they are real handy when using pickup rings. They don't help for humbuckers on pickguards though.

[J S Moore]

It does say that they're new. I could have sworn I saw those introduced on the site over a year ago.