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[kingdoublecut]

Silo Special SSS and HSS pickguards. Should the neck pickup and first screw holes be in different positions?

 

[DrKev]

I'm overlaying with those photos on top of each other in GIMP. I can line up the pickup screws, in which case the neck pocket routing is different, or I can overlay the neck pocket shapes and the pickup positions are different. And yes, the pickguard screws are different too.

Could one of those guards be for a Sterling by Music Man or OLP? I would not expect them to fit right (and they are not intended to). Or very different age EBMMs (like one is from the 1990s)?

 

[kingdoublecut]

HSS (Seymour Duncan) is a Sterling pickguard. My understanding, per a conversation with Brian Xavier Martin, is that all of the cut files for Sterling were identical to EBMM. I have used SbMM/EBMM pickguards interchangeabley on multiple models without issue. Screw holes always lined up. I'm most curious about whether the HSS & SSS neck position is different. I actually routed a swimming pool on the subject guitar, so the actual area available for the pickup is slightly larger...

 

[dibart77]

It could be a Silo (24 fret) vs a Silo Special (22 fret). Bodies are slightly different between Silo and Silo Special.

 

[DrKev]

My understanding, per a conversation with Brian Xavier Martin, is that all of the cut files for Sterling were identical to EBMM.

I know with certainty that's not true for all models. Appear to be the problem here too.

 

[kingdoublecut]

Dibart77 - these are both Silo Special guards.
DrKev - I guess I'll have to buy a blank one a rout the pup positions myself. Thanks for your knowledge and input.
Anyone need a BWB Silo Special SSS pickguard? Brand new, plastic still in place.

 

[Vito Porkleone]

The SS pickguard changed at some point. When I replaced mine earlier this year, they sent me two blueprints and asked me which one I needed. I could only find one difference, and that was the depth on the cut around the bridge (i remember it was exactly 10mm deep - and the wrong one was a lot smaller). The screw holes could have been slightly off on each version as well. My SS is a 2015, requiring the 10mm bridge cut. I'd start there.

On second thought, one could be for the MM, and the other for the Sterling. I don't have my Sterling anymore, so I'm no help there.

 

[beej]

I don't know about the SS, but the Albert Lee ones definitely changed at some point. I have an original Pinkburst and the hole locations are different than in later revisions.