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The mounting tabs are plastic, about 1/8th of an inch thick. This would not be to difficult to shape to fit in the cavity. The problem that crops up is the fact that the mounting screws are not normal wood screws, nor do they simply pass through a hole in the mounting foot. They are more along the lines of a fine threaded machine screw that passes through a brass nut embedded in the mounting foot. This nut is threaded to match the threads on the screw. The problem is that I can't just screw the pickups into the wood. I think that I will have to modify the pickup so that it takes a wood screw, and I'm not quites sure how to go about it.

I have an Ibanez USRG30 that has DiMarzio pickups direct mounted. I would like to replace these with EMG-89s but the EMG pickups are designed for installation with mounting rings, and I have no desire to go drilling new holes in a AAA quilted maple top. I also don't want to enlarge the pickup cavities to accomodate the larger mounting foot that the EMGs have. This means that I have to modify the pickup to accomodate being installed in the body, not the other way around. Does anybody have an idea as to what I need to do to get this to work? NOTE: Before anybody tells me to contact EMG and ask them, let me state that I have sent 5 e-mails between 2/2002 and now. Every one of them has had no response, not even a "we suggest that you don't try this.". For some reason, I get the feeling that EMG doesn't want to touch this question.