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I'm thinking about picking up an SG but I love the mini-buckers, both look and sound, like on the 70s SGs. Is it easy or even possible to put mini buckers on a normal SG?

If you get one like this:

You could just get a custom pickguard - simple.

If you get one like this:

You'd have to mess about with filling routs, or just have really ugly huge pickup surrounds.

Ah, good call. I guess I should be looking for one with the large pickguard if that's the direction I wanna go.

or like the p90 sg special it has basically the same holes as the mini humbuckers

might of did this wrong but oh well:

TheDude2112 wrote:or like the p90 sg special it has basically the same holes as the mini humbuckers

might of did this wrong but oh well:

P-90 are the same size as mini humbuckers with the chunky Les Paul Deluxe surrounds. These surrounds are hard to get and impractical to fit to other guitars:

the pickguard was the right size though.

timhulio wrote:These surrounds are hard to get and impractical to fit to other guitars.[/img]

^ What he said (this is like Tim tagteam) - they're a 'mare to get hold of. Get a batwing pickguard instead, like you've already suggested. SG purists get all funny about them, but I much prefer them to look at. They make the SG look even more like Batman's guitar.

benecol wrote:

timhulio wrote:These surrounds are hard to get and impractical to fit to other guitars.[/img]

^ What he said (this is like Tim tagteam) - they're a 'mare to get hold of. Get a batwing pickguard instead, like you've already suggested. SG purists get all funny about them, but I much prefer them to look at. They make the SG look even more like Batman's guitar.

yeah i get what youre saying there oh wait a minute... tv jones makes a similar pickup that would fit a p90 sg here it is i think:


EDIT: heres some more pickups that might fit a minibucker hole.





expensive, but i love these pickups they sounded great in my double jet before i sold it.

timhulio wrote:

TheDude2112 wrote:or like the p90 sg special it has basically the same holes as the mini humbuckers

might of did this wrong but oh well:

P-90 are the same size as mini humbuckers with the chunky Les Paul Deluxe surrounds. These surrounds are hard to get and impractical to fit to other guitars:

from every source i've read they are just p90 covers cut to fit the mini humbucker inside (and a p90 will drop right into les paul deluxe's), couldn't you just take a standard $2 p90 cover and dremel it for a mini-humbucker?

finboy wrote:from every source i've read they are just p90 covers cut to fit the mini humbucker inside (and a p90 will drop right into les paul deluxe's), couldn't you just take a standard $2 p90 cover and dremel it for a mini-humbucker?

+1 you could just dremel the pickup cover until it fits the mini bucker