What the %$#@& is up with the J Mascis pick guard?
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:04 pm
So I'm working on swapping a gold J Mascis guard onto my CP or VM Jazzmaster (not sure which it is, since it was modified when I got it) and god damn if it isn't trying at every step of the way.
The roller wheel bracket had to be replaced since the mounting holes were too close together. Then I had to drill them out and go with nuts. Then I had to drill them out farther because the beveled underside of the machine screws protrude well past the underside of the guard and become spacers that prevent the bracket from sitting tight against the guard.
Ditto with the rhythm channel slider switch. Only there's barely enough meat around the mounting holes on it to enlarge them and the nuts are going to have to be ground down on a side to sit against the body of the switch.
What the hell do they use in the stock application? The guard is so thin and the countersinks so deep that standard machine screws can't be what they put in there.
The roller wheel bracket had to be replaced since the mounting holes were too close together. Then I had to drill them out and go with nuts. Then I had to drill them out farther because the beveled underside of the machine screws protrude well past the underside of the guard and become spacers that prevent the bracket from sitting tight against the guard.
Ditto with the rhythm channel slider switch. Only there's barely enough meat around the mounting holes on it to enlarge them and the nuts are going to have to be ground down on a side to sit against the body of the switch.
What the hell do they use in the stock application? The guard is so thin and the countersinks so deep that standard machine screws can't be what they put in there.