Pickup Rings

[meltedbuzzbox]

Hello all,

Can anyone suggest some good places to buy some rosewood/flame maple/ebony etc pickup rings for my guitar?

I have seen some USA website asking for $150 a set but thats a bit steep for my liking.

Thanks

[wolf5150]

I've got a thin flamed maple one you can have mate.
Only got one though.
Had it from pickuprings.com

[stuagu]

crazyparts (germany) had some ... check their site.

[TTony]

Speak to Sporky ...

[meltedbuzzbox]

Mr Wolf, thanks for the offer mate. I really need 2 though and I need em pretty big for my hollowbody.

Stuagu I will have a look sir.

TTony, do you mean the fella that has made some real nice custom guitars on his CNC machine?

[TTony]

TTony, do you mean the fella that has made some real nice custom guitars on his CNC machine?

That's him. The CNC machine is a clue, if he's up for it .

[meltedbuzzbox]

That's him. The CNC machine is a clue, if he's up for it .

Perhaps if I chuck in a bag of bom bons and some candy canes he will be game?

:-)

[Sporky_McGuffin]

I'm working on them at the mo - I owe TTony a box of assorted stuff (it's in production, honest!).

They're surprisingly tricky to make - you've not got much area to secure them to a spoilboard so it's not uncommon for the milling bits to rip them free - one dead ring. They also take a fair bit of time - the blank wood has to be cut and planed square before it can go on the machine and it has to be thicker than you want the ring, which means that once it's "done" you still need to get it down to the right thickness. At that point, though, it's pretty thin and fragile. It gets even worse if they're going on a carve top guitar.

$150 does sound a lot until you work out just how much time is involved and what the wastage rate is.