Filtertron NE Mount to FMIC Electromatic 3-screw ring mount

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this allows you to mount an NE filtertron pickup into the 3-hole ring mount used in current-era FMIC Gretsch Electromatics. (I have no affiliation with FMIC or Gretsch). credit due to Johnny_Ultra on the gretsch-talk forums, who detailed the execution of this sort of adapter in a post. after printing, I had to jab a phillips head screwdriver (and twist) into the three outer pickup ring holes to taper them enough to allow the machine screws to tap themselves in the rest of the way... it's a tight fit at first, but once you run a screw all the way through it seems quite workable (i printed on a rep 2, low quality, 10% fill) UPDATE - the files marked "with wire clamp access" v25 are for pickups where the pickup leads actually run through the clamp. i have not been able test the design out with such a pickup (my filtertrons don't use the clamp) but the design should work in theory? the cut-outs probably reduce rigidity of the adapter, so if you don't need access to the wire clamp, i would use the non "wire clamp access" v24 files... finally, after some discussion on the gretsch-talk forums, it was suggested by henry that the adapter be cut into two separate pieces, perhaps to avoid any problems with different backplanes... If there is something on your backplane that will interfere with the center bar (e.g., a differently placed wire clamp) then you'll probably want to try the v26 "separate pieces" files