Godin pickup!! HELP PLEASE.

[frogeye]

Neat, nice work!

[Elias Graves]

Originally Posted by jazzbow

<Me, I would saw right through the top and install a P90.>

First rule of guitar club, do not cut through the top as you will hit the support struts that run inside your guitar.

Second rule of guitar club, DO NOT cut through the top as you will hit the support struts that run inside your guitar!!

http://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/attac...d=127888920 7

http://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/attac...d=127888924 2

http://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/attac...d=127888925 1

If you don't know what you are doing (such as the owner of attached horror!!) buy yourself a floating humbucker or scratchplate mounted pickup. Oh, and this godin guitar sold for £69 stirling on ebay.... Ouch...

Check out this link, I don't know whether they're for sale yet?

YouTube - Jason Lollar McCarty install




Or try your hand at this Gibson style pickguard pickup, I did a version myself for an old zenith archtop I had a few years back.

http://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/attac...d=127888904 0
My version used the same shape but attatched by the same system as outlined in the youtube link above.

Please don't cut the top or you will deeply piss yourself off and bear the scars for many years to come.

Bumping an old thread here. These pics look like parallel bracing.
Godin just informed me that the 5th Avenue is X braced. I guess I'll get an inspection mirror and check it out.
I wonder how they are installing humbuckers on the Uptown model?

Anyway, I'm looking to do the same type thing here. Has anyone had the pups off of a kingpin? Are there holes in the top or do the spacers make that unnecessary? (Besides screw holes and one for the wire)

EG

[Meggy]

Originally Posted by jazzbow

And furthermore, this rare grimshaw has a fingerboard extention/pickup with scratchplate controls - ignore the chrome rhythm chief pickup.

I have a friend with a Grimshaw a bit like that one. It has the "built-in" pickup, but the cutaway is not so deep, and a more normal 20 fret fingerboard. The one in that picture looks like a 24 fret board, unusual for an archtop.

[Elias Graves]

Godin says the bracing on the kingpin is the same as the regular 5th Avenue. They recommend surface mount pups and their originals are available as parts.
Fralin offers a dogear with magnetic rod polepieces that requires no routing. I'm told they sound more like a DeArmond than a P90.

EG