|
|
Joined:
September 2013
Posts: 79
| I was told these are made of plastic inorder to flex, are these available in the event they break or strip? Does the neck need to come off any of the solid bodies to remove the pickguard? I ask because I've noted that they appear to fit very snugly around the neck joint. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
December 2006
Posts: 6992
Location: Jet City | Ovation customer service is the place to ask if they are available. They've scrounged one of those up for my '67 Tornado |
|
| |
|
Joined:
December 2001
Posts: 7210
Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I don't know about any left, Damon is right... call. But... if they strip, they are somewhat easy to repair. Just shave a little sliver of soft plastic, stick it in the hole and re thread the screw. You could even go the effort of dropping in some epoxy to seal the hole and just re-drilling it. I would drill it slightely smaller than the screw and let the screw re-tap it.
As far as "removing" the neck, not generally necessary, but sometimes. The best method I know for getting a pickguard off is.
1. Loosen strings a lot but do not remove.
2. Place capo higher than 12th fret.
3. Lift off bridge with strings still attached and set aside.
4. Screw in at least the pickup screws, lifting the pickups as high as they go. Don't force them, just get them all the way up. If a screw strips (I only mention this because of above) you can start screwing in on the other screws and just lift the 3rd. The only place the screw is "attached" is the pickup adjustment in screws into.
5. Remove ALL pickugard screws and carfully remove pickguard.
I think that's it.. wrote it off the top of my head as I've done it so many times.
|
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2013
Posts: 79
| Thanks guys. I can't help thinking that a better one could be cut from stainless sheet metal if it were the right thickness (5 mil), am I wrong?
Edited by gmaslin 2013-10-04 1:45 PM
|
|
| |
|
Joined:
December 2001
Posts: 7210
Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | gmaslin - 2013-10-04 11:44 AM
Thanks guys. I can't help thinking that a better one could be cut from stainless sheet metal if it were the right thickness (5 mil), am I wrong?
Well you could, but doesn't seem very cost effective. I've never seen one of the plastic ones break, they are light in weight, and of the at least 300 or so guitars I have owned I only had to repair one "stripped" one that was my own doing a long time ago.
I also think I would as little metal in the pickup cavity as possible regardless if it had a magnetic content or not. Just seems prudent.
Additionally in thinking about it.. the plastic acts as "lock washer" on the screw not needing any nut etc.. A metal one would be susceptible to cross-theading which while still possible on the plastic, isn't that big of a deal as long as one doesn't force the screw all the way though...
The more I think about it... it's a pretty clever design as-is..
|
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2013
Posts: 79
| Mr. Ovation
Those pickup screws seem really easy to lose, where would I get spares? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2013
Posts: 79
| edit...pickGUARD screws seem... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
December 2001
Posts: 7210
Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | gmaslin - 2013-10-05 7:07 AM
edit...pickGUARD screws seem...
McMaster Carr or similar. They only fall out if they have been put on a removed often or stripped by over-tightening.
|
|
| |
3 pivot pickup height adjustment shim
