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Post by mikeshipman on Aug 11, 2023 10:45:50 GMT
I bought this some years ago but never used it, in working order and has installation instructions. £50 pluse £3.50 postage. |
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Post by snakehips on Aug 11, 2023 11:47:39 GMT
Hi there !
That screw you have shown going through the “Polo mint” pickup is far too long !!
You need the original screw, shown in the instructions.
The screw MIGHT be the appropriate length for a Dobro spider cone but I don’t know for sure.
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 11, 2023 13:21:25 GMT
Hi there ! That screw you have shown going through the “Polo mint” pickup is far too long !! You need the original screw, shown in the instructions. The screw MIGHT be the appropriate length for a Dobro spider cone but I don’t know for sure. Richard, This is a multipurpose passive pickup for National-style biscuits and Dobro-style spiders. The screw in the photo is for Dobro-style spiders. On a biscuit bridge the polo mint pickup is glued to the underside of the biscuit and the screw is not used. Shine On Michael |
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Post by pete1951 on Aug 11, 2023 16:02:01 GMT
Hi there ! That screw you have shown going through the “Polo mint” pickup is far too long !! You need the original screw, shown in the instructions. The screw MIGHT be the appropriate length for a Dobro spider cone but I don’t know for sure. Richard, This is a multipurpose passive pickup for National-style biscuits and Dobro-style spiders. The screw in the photo is for Dobro-style spiders. On a biscuit bridge the polo mint pickup is glued to the underside of the biscuit and the screw is not used. Shine On Michael I seem to recall fitting one ( some years ago) and I think the instructions said to use the centre screw of the biscuit ( or rather one 5-6mm longer) to fix it to the cone/biscuit? The one I fitted had an active preamp so Michael could be right, It would work in a similar way if screwed or glued Pete Just looked ( and enlarged) the first photo, the original box included a longer than standard screw to hold the piezo in place |
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Post by snakehips on Aug 11, 2023 20:54:26 GMT
Hi again !
Well first, the subject heading was for a National biscuit pickup - and yet that screw shown through the polo-mint pickup is not suitable.
Secondly, I did buy one of these polo-mint Fishman pickups a LONG time ago (and think I sold it to Bert Dievert perhaps, later on. That pickup was not glues to the biscuit but screw through the cone and into the centre, underside of the biscuit, WITH a little plastic washer between the screw head and the pickup.
I remember losing the little plastic washer and having to try other materials in it’s place.
The short screw & plastic washer are seen in the instruction manual, in the pictures of the pickup for sale.
What might be confusing some, is the instructions also seem to show the installation of the other Fishman biscuit pickup model as well - the brass disc pickup, that was to be glued to the underside of a biscuit. That pickup doesn’t seem to be the one shown for sale.
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 11, 2023 21:59:09 GMT
Richard, Thank you for clearing that up. Now I understand what I was looking at and why I was confused about how it attaches to the biscuit.
I am reminded of buying my first resonator guitar in the 70s, an OMI Dobro 33H. Having got it home and read the instructions, I took it back to the shop, Bernard Dean’s in Scarborough, and said that it was faulty because it was missing the screw to adjust the tone that is accessible through the hole in the handrest. The guy in the shop agreed and called the distributor in Leeds. The guy in Leeds, who I now know was Steve Phillips, explained that it was a different cone to the one in the instructions and we all lived happily ever after!
I hope we haven’t sidetracked this thread too much and that Mike sells the pickup soon.
Shine On
Michael
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