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Topic: Fender 1000 — can’t remove pickup |
Nathan French
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California, USA
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Posted 29 May 2022 12:35 pm |
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I’ve had a Fender 1000 for a few years. I recently noticed the back neck, which I don’t use, has a much better sound. The pickup is a lot closer to the strings and that may be why. So got out the screw driver and… the front pickup won’t adjust the height.
Not too surprising, figure I need to take it out and put some foam under it or something. But it won’t budge.
Any tricks I should know about? I do not want to damage the pickup. It feels like it’s glued down. |
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Mark Perrodin
From:
Tucson Arizona, USA
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Posted 29 May 2022 6:28 pm 400
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remove the screws and pull the cover off and then lever out the pickup and put a piece of expandable foam under the pickup. the foam acts to raise the pickup up to the desired height. i always seem to need to raise the treble side on my 400’s. i have three and i did it to all of them.
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Ethan Shaw
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 30 May 2022 10:53 am
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| I think the plastic covers deform slightly over time. I had to very lightly remove a tiny bit of wood from the one side of the pickup cavity to get mine to move. |
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Paul Redmond
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 30 May 2022 11:13 am
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When did they ever use plastic covers on 1000's? I thought the pickup flanges were all molded fiber. Must be later models/short-scale guitars. All the old "silver-frame"/long-scale (24-1/2") models had fiber flanges.
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 30 May 2022 1:26 pm
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| The rectangular black "soap bar" style pickups used until 1963 had a thin plastic case, or cover. When they switched to the narrow (Jaguar-style) pickups, some of the guitars even had the narrower pickup mounted inside the rectangular plastic cover. |
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