 | This ace handmade Mandolin was in the workshop to have it’s undersaddle pickup wired up! It needed the pickup cable hidden inside the body of the Mandolin and a Switchcraft jacksocket fitted and wired up to the pickup! As it was brought in, the pickup had been fitted when it was made but the wire was left exposed outside the body without any jacksocket! |
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The wire came out the back of the bridge, it needed to be sunk inside the body and then wired to a jacksocket. It also needed a bit of work on the bridge, to change the angle of the wire exiting the bridge.
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The hole was drilled to give the wire access into the body, the bridge was carefully cut to allow the wire to sit inside the bridge!
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The bridge back on the body with the wire now going into the body!
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Marking out the jacksocket hole before drilling, fitting and wiring the Switchcraft jacksocket.
Due to the small heart shaped sound hole leading to extremely limited access, a trick method of wiring and fitting the jacksocket had to be used!
With all the work done, the bridge was restrung with only a small bit of the pickup wire left showing!
Due to the small heart shaped sound hole leading to extremely limited access, a trick method of wiring and fitting the jacksocket had to be used!
With all the work done, the bridge was restrung with only a small bit of the pickup wire left showing!
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