Hello all.
I am building a Fenderbird.
Parts that I’m in possession of
- Epiphone thunderbird body, sunburst. Stripped of hardware, neck is sold. Made in China.
- A fender licensed neck from USA custom guitars (jazz bass 70’s style)
- Pickups from Thunderbucker Branch (arriving shortly)
- Hipshot supertone, a direct replacement bridge
The pickups are 41mm by 92mm and will not fit the epiphone body rout/cavity.
So I have two choices, either to use a dremel so that I can countersink the pickups, or two, to use shims.
Lollar pickups have a video on youtube for installing pickups with shims. The only thing I don’t like about using shims though is that
the pickups get really high up, like big soap bars. I can’t stand the huge gap between the strings and the body.
My goal is to get the pickups to sink down into the cavities so that they will get the [i]Gibson [/i]profile.
My question to you is, is this easy to do? The neck joint of an Epiphone is different from a Gibson neck joint.
Would I have to make the Fender neck sink really deep in to the neck pocket so that I can have my strings lowered
down as if it was a Gibson?
I can imagine that the pickup height has to correlate with how the neck is fitted…
Thanks