hamer098 Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Hello, I recently started restoring my old RG, I would like to remove the pickup rings and have no idea where to start with that. Any tutorial with pictures would be mighty helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foil1more Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Remove the screws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamer098 Posted December 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Yeah, I didnt explain it well, I would like to completely convert my guitar body so the pickups are suspended in the body without the need to use pickup rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foil1more Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 lol okay. The pickups on my bass are like that. They are attached with a thin wood screw and the spring is below the pickup. Drill a small hole for the screw to get started. Screw it in to make the hole. This is how I did it so that the screw would make threads in the wood and hold better. Then you just have to take the screws back out, put them through the holes on the feet of the pickup, put the springs over the screws and mount the pickups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 it might help to have a pic to see what you are working with...sometimes the route in there isn't all that neat and it can look a bit weird...often you will have to drill out the pickup mount to fit the screws in (and a thin body sg you are going to have to watch going right through, especially with adjusting pickup height)...also some thick foam is agood way to create a spring under the entire pickup to hold it steady...you want avoid microphonic feeback from the pickups being loose on the guitar...not good! Remove the screws. hehehe...that was my immediate response too...pity, it would have been my shortest reply! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoughtless 7 Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 If you can find some hard foam you could also put that behind the pickup just to raise it up a few mm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andronico Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 If you can find some hard foam you could also put that behind the pickup just to raise it up a few mm. I used hard foam and a little piece of metal under the pickups in order to use screws for metal instead of wood ones in my travel guitar. You can see a pic at the middle of this page http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...4299&st=105 Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamer098 Posted December 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 yeah that was really helpful, I will post pictures once im done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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