Positioning Pickups Before Drilling

This is part 2 of the video series on Replacing Pickups in a semi-hollowbody guitar.  Here, I show some common-sense tricks for properly positioning the pickups front-to-back and side-to-side on the guitar, without having to make lots of measurements, etc.   To place the pickups parallel with the edge of the fretboard and parallel with each other, I use spacers.   You can experiment with spacers of different sizes to find a good fit – I’ve used pens and pencils and scrap wood.  Just make sure the spacer is equal in size along its entire length – avoid tapered pens.  Here, I’m using drill bits wrapped in tape, since my bit set has so many choices in size.   I also show a way to use the low and high E strings as a straightedge when aligning the pickup polepieces under the strings.  Note, in the video, I didn’t realize the camera was slightly angled when showing the pole piece alignment, so it’s not as

Note to self: next time, set the camera to proper manual focus before doing those closeups!