Major Problem Replacing Schaller with Seth Lover in H535

[Balladeer]

Two weeks ago I bought a used H535. It has Schaller pickups. Many H535 owners prefer Seth Lovers. I like the Anitquies I have in another guitar. I intended to replace the Schallers with Seth Lovers tonight. I started with the neck pickup and ran into a major problem - the long legs on the Seth will not work in my H535. Will I encounter the same problem with the bridge pickup? How did you guys get Seth Lovers into your H535?

[brentrocks]

all you need to do is take a 1" paddle bit and drill down about 1/2 an inch in the center of either side of the pickup cavity

 

[brentrocks]

[bolero]

you might be able to get Seths with short legs too?

[tbonesullivan]

I believe that the SD' 59s and the Seth Lovers are only available with the long legs, like the original PAF pickups had. If you wanted short legs I think you'd have to alter the base plate.

[Balladeer]

I'm going to follow BrentRocks' advice.

[tbonesullivan]

*nod* that's exactly what they do at the factory. guitars that come with the 59's and/or seth lovers stock have the routes enlarged to handle the longer brackets.

[MartyGrass]

all you need to do is take a 1" paddle bit and drill down about 1/2 an inch in the center of either side of the pickup cavity

 

 

 

 

Geez, Brent. And you were concerned about swapping the pups in my H576!

[Alex78]

Another option would be getting short legs baseplates., unscrew the coils, disolder them and assemble magnet and coils on the short legs baseplate.

[davesultra]

Yet another option would be... Eventhough you already have the pickups. There is this seller on ebay who has them with the shorter legs. But, they do also have 4-conductor leads. Just a thought because, I know if it were me I'd very squeamish regarding drilling into the body of my git.