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Factory Gretsch guitars come equipped with wooden “shims” under the pickups. This couples the pickup with the guitar body and can sometimes move the pickup too close to the strings, which is not desirable. You can replace these shims with compression rubber. You can order a set of compression rubber here or use computer mouse pad material. Filter’Tron style pickups are extremely sensitive, so having this compression rubber underneath allows for much more control over the height of the pickup.
- Carefully pop the shims out with a small chisel or screwdriver.
- Use a computer mouse pad or TV Jones compression rubber and cut two strips roughly the same size as the shims.
- Replace the old wooden shims with your new rubber shims.
- Screw the pickups back onto the guitar.
You will now have much more flexiblity on the height of your pickup and will be able to get the height “just right”.
Hi Tom.
I love my 5120 gretsch but would like to install TV Jones pu’s.
I don’t want to ruin my guitar and I don’t realy trust Guitar center to change them out for me. I was wondering is ther someone in the Portland Oregon area that you could recomend or do you take in work for customers? Also I se all the pu’s and dont Know what I need to get the Chet Atkins sound. Please help. Thank you , Jim
I also play my 5120 though a Marshal 2000 TSL100. Will changeing the pu’s help get the ventage sound of Chet Atkins
Thank you, Jim
Try the 12th Fret in Portland
2402 Southeast Belmont Street
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 231-1912
The TV Classic Bridge with Super’tron neck will get you the Chet sound on a Marshall (use clean setting of course) or a set of TV Classics. Either choice will do it!