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Topic: 705 Pickups Installed On Emmons LeGrande III |
Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Oct 2012 9:55 am |
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| I just had the 705 pickups installed on my Emmons LeGrande III steel. What a difference in tone and they are much cleaner and clearer than I expected. We had problems on the E9th neck due to the anti tuner counterforce. A special thanks to Jerry Roller who had the same issue with his guitar and was kind enough to help with the way he did it. Thanks to all of you who commented and give advice on previous posts concerning this issue. And a special thanks to my friend Curtis Hogue, who is now the owner of Rains Steel Guitars who installed them for me. What great friends that are here on this forum. |
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Don Mogle
From:
Round Rock, TX, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2012 8:43 am 705s
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Did you install the original 705s or the reissued ones?
Last edited by Don Mogle on 22 Oct 2012 8:36 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Don Hinkle
From:
Springfield Illinois, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2012 12:06 pm
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Im trying to remember what Jerry does to make a thicker pickup fit with the counterforce unit on the LG3....
I have a BL705 I would love to put in my LG3.. but don't want to chop it up.
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2012 5:05 pm
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| The 705 pickups are the reissued pickups Don. Jerry Roller took the bottom off the pickup and bought a real thin piece of aluminum and made a copy of the bottom piece. He drilled the holes and mounted the aluminum piece to the pickup and then on the guitar. He did take the springs off that adjust the pickup up and down. My friend Curtis used a thin piece of formica for the mounting playe and it worked great. He did have to take the springs off that raise and lower the pickup. I might add that the wiring on the pickups are thicker so he had to drill out the hole just a touch for the wire to fit through. The pickups a huge difference in sound for sure. |
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2013 10:36 pm
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Here are a couple of photos of my LeGrande III with original 705's using the think aluminum mounting plate.
Jerry
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Chris Johnson
From:
USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 12:59 am
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| Love the sound of those reissues. |
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Peter den Hartogh
From:
Cape Town, South Africa
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 4:16 am
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| Paul King wrote: |
| The 705 pickups are the reissued pickups Don. Jerry Roller took the bottom off the pickup and bought a real thin piece of aluminum and made a copy of the bottom piece. |
I see that the bottom plate has 2 screws.
Is it easy to take off the bottom plate?
Or do you have to be extra careful not to damage any of the fragile internal wiring? |
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Gary Dunn
From:
near Camel City, NC
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 7:50 am
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| It would be nice to see some pictures of the installation process. |
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