I sold this one.

But @deej would have been your friend
🤣
 
Beautiful work as ever Marcel.  That maple top looks superb.  What was pear wood like to work with?

Back in the old days, we all used to stay at M&Cs. But then C got a bit stroppy because we used to eat all the lentils. So last time it was B&B in the town.  Which actually works really…   Read more»

What do you do for accommodation? 

“Accomodation”??
Its a 24/7 course @johnnierox-boo.  But only for a week, so you’ll survive.
😉
 

@darrenking – this is what I had in mind!

Off to the workshop to mock something up ….

Back from the workshop … here’s the results.

So, conclusions .. 1.  It’d work. 2.  I just used standard pickup mounting ring screws (because that’s what I had).  Really, they’d need to be about half the length of standard ones so that the head of the screw sits…   Read more»

Step3, fix pickup to alu bar … First option uses a bit of foam under the pickup, to add a little height adjustment

That didn’t really give a lot of height adjustment though, so, second option …

This…   Read more»

Ah-hahhhh @deej now?
That’s going to be a lot easier!!

That’s a good Q @darrenking.  I’ll have to think about that!! Right, having completely forgotten to think about it … my sub-conscious has clearly been working on it because an idea has just popped into the empty space I call…   Read more»