i need help with my tele bridge pickup

[littleredguitars2]

i'm having trouble with the height adjustment of my bridge pickup in my tele. it has those little rubber spacers between the metal bridge plate and the screws but when i tighten the bridge plate back down, the screws holding the pickups in place, push up as you can see in both pictures and no matter what i do, it hardly adjusts and the pickup height hardly budges. and its clearly touching some of the strings rendering them unplayable. please help. this is frustrating the shitee out of me.





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so i tried taking everything off and re-checking the height of the pickup and screwing it on normally. but when i tightened the bridge plate back to to body i noticed the more i tightened it, the more the pickup began to rise again like in the picture. but not bad enough to be a problem. then when i put the string saddles back on and tightened those and restrung the guitar, the tension seemed to cause the pickup to rise back up to touching the high e string again.

i can't figure this out.

[Dave Sloven]

Are you using the screws and springs that came with guitar, or the ones that BKP supplied?  If the latter, I would try using the ones that were in it, if they are clearly different lengths.

It sounds a bit like you are lacking room inside somewhere and something is bottoming out, pushing the pickup upwards.  Check also that those washers are not fouling the pickup.  If they are rubbing somehow try cutting a bit of them with some snips.

I say this as someone who's never pulled apart a Tele, but from your description those are the first things I'd investigate.

[BigB]

It sounds a bit like you are lacking room inside somewhere and something is bottoming out, pushing the pickup upwards.  Check also that those washers are not fouling the pickup.  If they are rubbing somehow try cutting a bit of them with some snips.

this.

[littleredguitars2]

i didnt think of that.. i really hope thats the problem. thanks. i will give it a shot and report back.

[littleredguitars2]

so the screws that came with the BKP were actually shorter than the ones on there originally... i'm so confused

[littleredguitars2]

well, i managed to get it playable. but the pickup still pushes up a little bit and is on a slant and i dont know why. the only possible thing i can think of is it may be sitting on top of the wires that come out of the bottom of the pickup

[Dave Sloven]

well, i managed to get it playable. but the pickup still pushes up a little bit and is on a slant and i dont know why. the only possible thing i can think of is it may be sitting on top of the wires that come out of the bottom of the pickup

That is the other thing I thought it might be.  Check also that you have allowed enough slack in the wire.  Don't pull it too tight.

Did you use your screws or the BKP screws?

If you think the screws might be too short, lower the pickup until you feel the screws go loose.  If you can push the pickup down from there, it's too short.  On the other hand if you lower the pickup and the pickup stops going down and the screws start coming up away from the pickup then they are obviously too long.

I suspect though that the issue might be a wire fouling something underneath.

Did you check those rubber washers?

[littleredguitars2]

yeah maybe the pickup wire is too tight. i dont know what you mean about the rubber washers though... right now i'm using the stock screws.

[Dave Sloven]

I meant the rubber spacers.  Just check that they are not limiting the adjustment somehow