Does anyone make a humbucker with 48mm pole spacing?

[Elias Graves]

Title says it all. I've looked and can't find one.

[SonnyW]

Title says it all. I've looked and can't find one.

I have looked too. I don't know of any. I have a project that has been on the back burner to try to make a 46mm spaced one, but it hasn't gotten too far. I never can seem to get back to it. I have a Gibson patent sticker one that I am copying from and that's what it measures, if that's the one you are referring to. They were for necks on some of the archtops I think. You can see the marks in the tops of the bobbins where the tooling was modified from standard. There are circle mold marks where the holes for the other spacing slugs would have been. Anyway all I have gotten done so far is to fill in the holes in some butyrate bobbins with black epoxy so I can redrill them, and bought a sheet of nickel silver to make a baseplate up from scratch with. But other jobs keep getting in the way of working on this, and I don't know how it might come out.

[LtKojak]

There are actually 47.2mm and 50mm as a set.

Gotoh make'em, so most the usual suspects: big asian plastic parts manufacturers.

You can have'em with two types of screws: turning and thick as slugs w/slotted head, and the usual philister screw/keeper bar combo.

I can't remember if it was Pahx-Hill(sp?) Sung-He (sp?)where I've found'em, but only the bobbins. No metal parts were offered, so I didn't bite.

HTH,

[David Schwab]

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[Elias Graves]

Sorry, I'm not a pickup maker, but a guitar maker. I have a hollowbody that needs a complete pickup with 48mm spacing. Looking for a whole pickup, not parts.

[big_teee]

Sorry, I'm not a pickup maker, but a guitar maker. I have a hollowbody that needs a complete pickup with 48mm spacing. Looking for a whole pickup, not parts.

How about a blade bucker with a no holes cover?
T

[jack briggs]

Duncan makes their 59 model in a "jazz neck" about 48mm pole spacing. I've got a couple sets of parts from those, but they were uncovered black bobbins.

[Elias Graves]

How about a blade bucker with a no holes cover?
T

That may be the answer. I'm running a firebird pickup in the neck but wanted something a little warmer in the bridge like a PAF style.
Ill either go with another firebird or maybe a set of blade p90s.

[David Schwab]

That may be the answer. I'm running a firebird pickup in the neck but wanted something a little warmer in the bridge like a PAF style.
Ill either go with another firebird or maybe a set of blade p90s.

You can make a blade style pickup that sounds warm (actually PAFs are bright sounding). Having blades has nothing to do with the tone. You don't have to use magnets for blades like the Firebird.