pick up and neck problem

Posted by Mitchell Montgomery on June 24, 2012 at 4:49am


 I am making a  3 string with a through the box neck and want to use a humbucker  pickup I am worried that I will need to remove too much of the neck to locate the pickup and I will weaken it. are there any low profile pickups ( not piezo ) that you would recommend?

Thanks In advance Mitchell

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  • Reeds Taylor August 6, 2012 at 8:55pm

    I drew up this diagram, I hope it helps you.

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  • Wichita Sam July 11, 2012 at 11:11pm

    If you don't want to go with flatpups, you can fix the neck to the a piece of board that connect the bottom of the neck to the back of the CBG.  You are essentially building a "backbone" neck thru and you can remove way more wood to accomodate that pickup than you would with a typical neck thru. 

  • Wichita Sam July 11, 2012 at 10:11pm

    If you don't want to go with flatpups, you can fix the neck to the a piece of board that connect the bottom of the neck to the back of the CBG.  You are essentially building a "backbone" neck thru and you can remove way more wood to accomodate that pickup than you would with a typical neck thru.

  • Joseph Young July 3, 2012 at 11:01pm

    flatpups are low pro pickups and they are made by a member of CBN u can put em between the strings and body

  • Tom "Broken E String" Sobieski June 24, 2012 at 11:05am

    Interested in this my own self, hope for some answers

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