Mattt0192 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Have any of you had any problems changing out epiphone pickups and putting Gibsons in? Such as the Gibsons are too big or anything like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 No. You just need to be aware of different models tho. In general you have your humbuckers, single-coils, P-90s and mini-humbuckers. Than the specialties like any hybrid configuration of the aformentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattt0192 Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Someone tried to argue this with me... i told him numerous amounts of people put gibson humbuckers in epis with no problems, he said there's no way epiphone would make their guitars so cheap if you could make it sound like a gibson. ( IT doesn't help that he has the "Gibson or nothing" mindset.) He said some yeehaw about his "guitar expert" friend telling him that epi makes their parts slightly smaller so you have to cut into the body to make the pickup holes bigger for the gibson parts. I personally have never heard this. Anyone else ever heard that? I Know alot of you out there swap pickups all the time so if anyone has ever had this problem let me know. I tried to tell him he was wrong, but you can't argue with ignorance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L1Picker Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 If you remove one of your pickups, you'll find that the wood is routed quite a bit larger than the actual size of the pickup itself. It's the mounting ring that keeps it suspended in the routed pocket. As pointed out by Ricochet, you only need to make sure you're matching up pickup types for which the guitar was routed for. You won't get a humbucker to fit in a mini-humbucker pocket, nor will you get it to fit in a mounting ring that was designed for a different size pickup. But swapping pickups of the same style from different manufacturers isn't an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ButchCassidy Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Yeah, and if this were true, every pick up manufacturer would have to specify between gibson and epi, and so forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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