Anybody installed a pickup in a carvin guitar before?

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I got a Dimarzio AT-1 to install my carvin DC 125 and replace the not so great sounding stock pickup. Went to install it and the pickup mounting ring has this weird one screw on one side but two one the other to hold the pickup. WTF? So I'm looking at getting a mounting ring. The stock mounting ring looks flat but the ones I've found online all seem to have a taper. Also, are mounting rings a standard size? Will any mounting ring fit and the screw holes line up? I definitely dont want to do any drilling on my guitar. Any help appreciated, I've only done a pickup swap once, on a Gibson explorer and it was a piece of cake.
 
I think AllParts has the flat pickup ring with one adjustment screw hole on each side. Any humbucker ring should be close in size but no guarantees.
 
I've changed the pups on 3 of my Carvins. What I did is drill a new hole in the existing pickup ring........dead center between the existing holes. Make a small pilot hole with a thumbtack and then drill it out with a tiny bit. It's that easy.

BTW, curious what pickup you are removing? The Carvin C22B is one of my favorite pups ever.
 
EyesOfTheSouth":3fj2ppfa said:
I've changed the pups on 3 of my Carvins. What I did is drill a new hole in the existing pickup ring........dead center between the existing holes. Make a small pilot hole with a thumbtack and then drill it out with a tiny bit. It's that easy.

BTW, curious what pickup you are removing? The Carvin C22B is one of my favorite pups ever.
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Well I have two C22Bs (one brand new) that I don't use and since sold all my Carvin's but one. They are great guitars, but their pickups are average at best IMO. I do like the older M22SDs and the other M22 series.
 
I just drilled a small hole between the two stock holes and slapped it in. Worked great. :)
 
Looks like the drill bit it is. I think the stock pup is the c22b but honestly can't recall for sure. It's definitely not one of the m series. I find it a little muddy/unclear but mainly it is chirpy. I think this might be a result of the guitar construction; body is mahogony but neck is maple and neck through. I didn't realize how nuch neck through guitars sound like the neck wood or I may have selected a different neck wood. I'm mainly trying to tame the chirp on a guitar with no tone pot. Plus I'm a Dimarzio fanboi.
 
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