magnetic pick ups

Posted by jim morehouse on September 4, 2016 at 3:06pm

building 2 electric cbgs and using the delta 4 pole pickup with vol and tone control

The pick ups came with 2 mounting screws and 2 springs. What are the springs for???

and when the pickup is mounted using the middle mounting holes the screws supplied touch 2 up the magnates at the same time. Is this right??

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  • Paul Craig October 19, 2016 at 3:35am

    Do they make any of those pups that are RWRP? I know the P90's that CBGitty sells are just one direction/one polarity, but don't know if any of the Delta 3 or 4 poles are available in RWRP(Reverse Wind/Reverse Polarity).

  • jim morehouse September 28, 2016 at 11:51am

    first electrics

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  • Graham Wedepohl September 4, 2016 at 3:28pm

    The springs are used to adjust the height of the pickup. Put them on the bottom of the pickup where the mounting holes are and that will work.

    As for the middle screw a pic would be nice but if the end 2 screws are enough you can leave the middle screw out, and touching the magnets would not hurt the pickup as it will still work, it would be like adding a 5th magnet.

    • jim morehouse > Graham Wedepohl September 4, 2016 at 6:04pm

      Finally here are some pics

      pups 1.jpg

      pups2.jpg

    • darryl kernaghan > jim morehouse September 4, 2016 at 7:28pm

      As Jim D says, it will work, but, unless the screws are touching all of the magnets, or none,  you might get an inbalance on how the strings affect the pup, the screws are effectively working as pole extensions if they are touching the magnets, and nothing wrong with that, as long as they are all affected reasonably equally

    • jim morehouse > darryl kernaghan September 4, 2016 at 8:08pm

      Thanks for all the help . Learning a lot on this build and looking forward to getting better

      Got some homework to do on pups and their placement

    • Jim Dickison > jim morehouse September 4, 2016 at 7:19pm

      Yeah. It will work. Not the best design I ever saw...

    • jim morehouse > Jim Dickison September 4, 2016 at 8:00pm

      I know

      All I can do is get better.

      Thanks

    • Jim Dickison > jim morehouse September 4, 2016 at 8:15pm

      Oh... no... I'm talking about the pickup design! Not the CBG design! LOL!

      The guitar looks fine!

    • darryl kernaghan > Jim Dickison September 4, 2016 at 8:51pm

      hahaaa,I understood what you meant Jim D, but it can read badly

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