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    Default LR Baggs Radius Mandolin Pickup

    I'm looking for a non-permenant pickup for my tenor guitars and I think the LR Baggs radius might be the ticket. Does anyone know how wide the clamp for the output jack can open? The tenors are a bit thicker than a mandolin.

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    Default Re: LR Baggs Radius Mandolin Pickup

    An inline jack (or Plug) on the end of a short cord, secured to your strap or end button, will function perfectly..

    Carpenter clamp on jack fittings use a Viola chin rest clamp for their hardware..

    {FWIW, Gibby style mandolins are about 46.5mm thick}

    (I have had a Schertler stick on pickup for years.. their inline jack is XLR,

    Rather than 1/4" but the Idea is similar.

    might want a Plug, on a long cord, to go next to the Baggs Pre-Amp..



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    Default Re: LR Baggs Radius Mandolin Pickup

    You can widen the opening of a carpenter jack (or arm rest) a couple ways. One is to buy longer turnbuckle pieces (called barrels). Here is a link to chrome or gold color.

    A couple years back I transferred an arm rest onto my 3-1/2" deep mandocello, so I had to make my own upper rods with 1/8" brass stock and a 6-40 UNF die. This was originally a Steve Bell arm rest fitted with very long (~2-1/2" long) barrels. You could do the same for fitting a Carpenter jack.

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    Default Re: LR Baggs Radius Mandolin Pickup

    I've used this for a couple years on my mandolin and use the carpenter jack. Downside is I've had to have in soddered(spelling?) 3 times in 4 years. They give way too much wire and it likes to twist.

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    Default Re: LR Baggs Radius Mandolin Pickup

    You can also buy a tapastring jack and it fits where your endpin is, doesn't have to be drilled. Then you can mount a permanent pickup inside. Only down side is a special cord, I carry a spare and have used this for many years.
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