Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by JSett » Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:19 pm

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Haha, not this year, pal :D

But yes, it's the blue one with the enormo neck. Happy to give you some squids to do the jiggery-pokery with it once I get all the bits together? Let you both spend a little quality time together? ;D
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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by hchoe741 » Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:27 am

So I'm in the process of revamping a squier jm. I got jm pickup covers without any holes, and drilled my own for humbucker polepieces. I bent the pickup legs to make it flush with the cover.

I was planning on filling the cover with epoxy to affix the humbucker, but I ended up just filling the gaps with foam, and felt pads, and used small dabs of the epoxy on the base, but I don't think it was necessary.

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by hchoe741 » Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:30 am

Also, I ended up using the upper controls as "spin a split." The roller knobs let me control how much of the outer coils to shunt, and the switch is a bypass for it.

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by simonhpieman » Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:48 pm

hchoe741 wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:27 am
So I'm in the process of revamping a squier jm. I got jm pickup covers without any holes, and drilled my own for humbucker polepieces. I bent the pickup legs to make it flush with the cover.

I was planning on filling the cover with epoxy to affix the humbucker, but I ended up just filling the gaps with foam, and felt pads, and used small dabs of the epoxy on the base, but I don't think it was necessary.

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Nice work! And the humbuckers fit ok without routing now you've bent the legs?

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by hchoe741 » Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:15 pm

It does for me, but mine has a tune-o-matic bridge, and I have the neck heavily shimmed (1.5 degrees), so the string is set pretty high.

If you have to set the pickup super low to the body you'd have to rout space for the polepieces.

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by simonhpieman » Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:16 pm

Sorry to bump this again but another potentially stupid question (I NEVER change pickups on guitars, can you tell?), I assume Jazzmasters need F-spaced humbuckers?

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by hchoe741 » Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:42 pm

simonhpieman wrote: ↑
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Sorry to bump this again but another potentially stupid question (I NEVER change pickups on guitars, can you tell?), I assume Jazzmasters need F-spaced humbuckers?
Depends on the string spacing at the bridge. If it's greater than 51mm you'll need f-spaced.

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by simonhpieman » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:56 am

Thank you, exactly what I needed to know.

I know so little about this stuff, it's a scary rabbit hole to disappear down!

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by hchoe741 » Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:17 am

simonhpieman wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:56 am
Thank you, exactly what I needed to know.

I know so little about this stuff, it's a scary rabbit hole to disappear down!
Oh definitely. There are many down in the hole, and I'm sure you'll join us soon ;D

Also consider what brand pickups you'll be using. Dimarzios f spaced is 52mm and I find that works in the bridge of most guitars (TOMs included). Duncans f spaced on the other hand are 54mm (I think?) and that's definitely too wide for TOMs.

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by simonhpieman » Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:48 am

Oh good, another variable :D

My JM has a Staytrem in it. It also has a shim the size of a malted milk biscuit so I should be alright.

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by garyptaszek » Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:27 am

pick guard mounted ftw
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I guess this doesn't help with the neck pickup tho. Modifying the baseplate of the pickup would be my solution.

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by madlovepickups » Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:21 pm

Would people be interested if I was to offer standard open mount hb jazzmaster surrounds in white, cream, parchment, black? Basically so you can mount an unmodified hb? Would require some wood removal for the legs. Non 3d printed.

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by GreenKnee » Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:00 am

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by rivir » Tue Feb 28, 2023 9:05 pm

I can't decide what pickups to get, now. I was going to go with the Pure Vintage 65s, but then I started thinking it might be nice to put humbuckers in. Has anyone tried the Novak JM-HC Stealth? They sounded good to me in this YouTube video, but I've been watching so many pickup videos now I think I lost my ability to hear when something sounds "correct" or even good, if that makes any sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm3hAzAZEfg

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Re: Mounting Humbuckers to Jazzmasters

Post by mcbrandt » Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:02 am

rivir wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 28, 2023 9:05 pm
I can't decide what pickups to get, now. I was going to go with the Pure Vintage 65s, but then I started thinking it might be nice to put humbuckers in. Has anyone tried the Novak JM-HC Stealth? They sounded good to me in this YouTube video, but I've been watching so many pickup videos now I think I lost my ability to hear when something sounds "correct" or even good, if that makes any sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm3hAzAZEfg
I have those in my JM right now. I love the sound of them, but I hate how microphonic they seem in that they pick up every single possible noise, like the flesh of my fingers touching the pickup cover or the strings or anything. Someone else on the forum made a similar gripe about them. Novak told me to put some thin padding between the pickup and the cover, but it doesn't help at all.

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