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HELP ME. Standard humbucker ring for mini humbucker hole ?

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:23 am
by othomas2
I'm doing another setup for someone and they've asked me if I can also find a suitable ring for this ?

I've seen adaptors but only in black.

Anyone suggest a place ? preferably in the UK...

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THANKS !!!

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:15 pm
by Mo Law-ka
Guitarfetish has some that are mini-p90 conversion plates. Not exactly what you're looking for, but kind of similarlanq

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:19 pm
by paul_
^those plus some of these:
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would be this
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Don't know where to get them though. :(

They're from the '70s Les Paul Deluxe era. These were the first LPs since 1960 (due to popular bluesrawk/burst-derived demand) and they cut the first bodies for P90s, realized everyone wanted PAFs, devised mini-hums to use up the P90-routed stock of bodies (as well as offering P90-equipped models, original Deluxe minihum rings are exactly the same shape as soapbars), then began routing them for PAFs soon after (having to snip the tops off the bucker rings to snug the pickup up against the fingerboard)... but shipped some with these plates and P90s. Ker-azy.

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:26 pm
by cur
Allparts has this.

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:34 pm
by cooter
Found these on ebay. They're stateside though. And a bit pricey for what it is.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cream-Humbucker ... 53eb8374e1

I got a laugh out of this part of his description.
"These are designed & hand crafted by me and are a custom rings they are trade marked so don't think about ripping off my design."

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:46 pm
by mkt3000
cooterfinger wrote:I got a laugh out of this part of his description.
"These are designed & hand crafted by me and are a custom rings they are trade marked so don't think about ripping off my design."
Trademarked? Or Patented?

Sounds to me like the seller needs an IP law bitchslap.

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:35 pm
by Gabriel
Some of these and then dremel out the extra material so the mini hums fit?

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Humbucker-R ... _4348.html

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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:54 pm
by paul_
cooterfinger wrote: "These are designed & hand crafted by me and are a custom rings they are trade marked so don't think about ripping off my design."
What a shame, I've bought several of those in black from other guys on eBay/parts sites. I'll send their details off to him at once.

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:56 pm
by cooter
paul_ wrote:
cooterfinger wrote: "These are designed & hand crafted by me and are a custom rings they are trade marked so don't think about ripping off my design."
What a shame, I've bought several of those in black from other guys on eBay/parts sites. I'll send their details off to him at once.
Well you've obviously bought knockoffs which was the same as taking money from this man's pocket. I don't know how you can sleep. :wink:
Said the guy that makes copies of Fender bodies.

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:05 pm
by theshadowofseattle
cooterfinger wrote:Found these on ebay. They're stateside though. And a bit pricey for what it is.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cream-Humbucker ... 53eb8374e1

I got a laugh out of this part of his description.
"These are designed & hand crafted by me and are a custom rings they are trade marked so don't think about ripping off my design."
That's kind of the stupidest shit ever. He reshaped plastic to have a large hole in it.

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:11 pm
by paul_
Gonna have to sell a lot of those rings to afford to sue somebody.