Replacing Pickup Rings

Replacing the pickup rings of your electric guitar is a great guitar customization that improves the appearance of your guitar and the sound. Most guitars, even high end ones, come with plastic pickup rings that might look fine from a distance but up close they look cheap and plain. This can be fixed with a simple guitar modification.

New pickup rings are available on many online sites, you can get them in various types of wood or metal. If you are planning on replacing the pickups of your guitar, make sure you know what color and style the new pickups will be so your pickup rings will match.

As with other guitar customizations, I tend to view wooden parts to be the best replacements. They have a high quality detailed look to them, and the closer you are to them the better they look. They make the guitar feel much more high quality. In general, it is nice to have a guitar that is made out of wood, so replacing the pickup rings for new wooden ones is a great modification.

To remove your old pickup rings you will usually just have to unscrew all the screw that are in it. This will disconnect the pickup rings from the guitar and the pickups, allowing you to take them off and screw in the news ones. Take note of your pickup height before you do this so you can reset the pickups to how they were. This is another guitar customization that you can easily do yourself.