Installation manual

ing on the width of the transducer

• Wood or metal drill bit, 3 mm (.12”)

• Screwdriver, Posidriv #1

• Endpin reamer, 12 mm (.47”) or wood drill bit, 12 mm (.47”)

• Allen wrench, 2 mm (.08”)

• Punch (spike)

• 13 mm (.51”) wrench to tighten the nuts on the preamp

endpin jack

• Small hand-held mirror

• Flashlight (penlight)

• Small round ﬁle

• Masking tape

• 1470 AST cardboard installation mounting guide (supplied)

6. PREPARING THE GUITAR FOR INSTALLATION

Please read completely before starting the actual procedure.

6.1 Test ﬁtting AST

For test ﬁtting 1470 AST (if applicable), loosen and remove the

strings from the tuning machines.

Before removing the strings and bridge pins from the bridge

check to see if the AST will ﬁt at the bridge plate correctly. Also

at this time, clean the bridge plate surface with a moist cloth

and let dry completely.

The cardboard installation template for the 1470 AST is speciﬁ-

cally made for bridges that the saddle is at a slight angle to the

bridge pinholes. It may also be that the guide is too long for

the space. If so, the template can be trimmed with scissors

slightly to accommodate this. If in case the template still does

not work the transducer may be installed by hand. Although the

instructions do not specify how to do this, if you carefully read

the instructions you will be able to adapt them to perform the

installation by hand. It really is not that hard or critical to install

if you are careful.

Alternative AST installation for steel string guitars: Some guitars

have smaller a bridge plate than others and the AST may be too

large to ﬁt in front of the pins. In this case the AST can be installed

behind the bridge pins. If the bridge plate does not extend enough

behind the pins, it can be installed on the top of the guitar, right

next to the bridge plate. When installed behind the bridge pins

you will hear more of the "top" of the guitar when the balance

is turned to UST / AST XOM position. This may be desirable for

any steel string installation.

For classical guitars the installation the AST is done by hand

without the guide. For most classical guitars the AST is placed

inside the guitar parallel to center brace that runs parallel to the

strings on the bass strings side at the area between the bridge

and soundhole. Sometimes there is also a ﬂat brace running