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Pickup installation

To cut a pickup cavity, a template is used in any case to make a smooth and well fitted space for the pickup. Excisting spaces can be filled up with wood and cut out with a router to adjust the instrument for a different type of pickup if needed.

Humbucker for a telecaster

The standard single coil neck pickup of this telecaster will be replaced by a Seymour Duncan Seth Lover humbucker. The neck is released from the body, to have more space at the neck position. All old parts are removed.

hardware is gedemonteerd van de telecaster body

With a router and a template, the cavity is cut for the new and bigger pickup.

telecaster met de bovenfrees mal op de body

The new pickup fits nicely in the body. The pickup fits just deep enough in the body as necessary, so as less as possible wood is removed from the body.

de nieuwe humbucker wordt in de gitaar body gepast

The pickguard is adjusted and the humbucker is mounted. The pickup floats on two bolts and can be adjusted to the right height.

de humbucker wordt in de slagplaat gemonteerd

The telecaster after the modification.

de telecaster modificatie is klaar

P-bass with added extra pickup

This p-bass is adjusted with an extra set of pickups by request. In front and behind the original pickup (white), a set of extra pickups is routed in (black) Also a switch is added in the pickguard.