Steinberger Routing/Wiring

[KayCee]

Hi all,

Here's a Steinberger guitar I worked on recently. The Pickup wouldn't fit the exisiting cavity and hence, it had to be trimmed with a router.

regards,
KC

Steinberger Routing/Wiring:

A Seymour Duncan Classic Stack plus wouldn't fit into the cavity.

A single coil pickup template is used to trim both ends of the cavity.

The cavity is trimmed.

The raw wood is painted black and the routing is near invisible.

The pickups fit nicely now.

The pickups are wired and the guitar sings with the new Duncans.The push pull is wired such that the middle and bridge pickup is both split at the same time. The Bridge pickup automatically coil splits when used with the middle pickup.

 

[df]

How much did this whole thing cost?

 

[KayCee]

Hi df,

Pickup wiring is 20 per pickup and the routing itself is 35 onwards. I did not shield the cavity, just did the wiring. Custom wiring will have an additional fee. All in all, a job like that usually costs from 80-120. Thanks for the enquiry.

KC

 

[Gr3y]

hey Kaycee,

just wondering, how much is it to shield a cavity? will it help on the tone of the guitar? and is that copperfoil? can i use aluminium foil at home? haha...

Sorry for so much of question.. thanks for replying!

Gr3y

 

[KayCee]

Aluminium foil is fine but the kitchen variety tears easily. Also you cannot solder the aluminium pieces together and squashing the pieces together is not a long term solution. Getting a conductive glue is feasible but to go through all that trouble, might as well get some copper sheets from Art Friend.

Anyway, the real benefits of Shielding are probably only heard at stage levels. If the guitar is very noisy at bedroom volumes, then shielding is not going to help much. It's better to find the source of interference like your power line, air cons, CRT monitors etc.

 

[df]

Hi, I'm planning to rout a humbucker for a P-90 (plus installation of pickup), how much would it cost?