Has anyone made full size mini humbuckers?

Yes, I know this sounds stupid, "A full size mini humbucker is just a humbucker!" Yes and no.

I'm looking for a mini humbucker that mounts like a full size and looks like one.

I saw those magneto labs ones but the screws are too small.

Anyone have ideas?

The small head screws are pretty much an essential part of a true minihumbucker. The bobbin doesn't have the typical recesses for screw heads. Large screw heads could never be set down flush -- the lowest setting would have the bottom of the heads up above the covers.

Plus the mass and shape of the poles has some affect on the shape of the magnetic field.

It would be easier to convert a humbucker into a full size Firebird pickup.
Maybe solder a mini into an open topped humbucker ring.
Remove the mini cover, drill solid humbucker cover for the mini pole pieces.

I think @efstop has it. My only question would be "why"?

If I had to deal with such a project, I'd consider the idea to build a custom pickup ring.
Or to mount a mini-HB under a larger cover, as suggested above (wax-potted or expoxied to avoid parasitic vibrations potentially allowed by this architecture).

It might be interesting to keep in mind how mini-HB sized coils are mounted under full-sized HB plastic covers in EMG 85 / 81: they are not centered but closer to the bridge or to the neck, according to the pickup involved. ;-)

Guitar Fetish IIRC....

• This is an adapter for you to install a Mini-Humbucker pickup in a Humbucker pickup hole.

Brazilnut said:

I think @efstop has it. My only question would be "why"?

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I dunno

mdubya said:

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• This is an adapter for you to install a Mini-Humbucker pickup in a Humbucker pickup hole.

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This is what I wanted to avoid. It needs to be stealthy and look like a humbucker.

Acey said:

It needs to be stealthy and look like a humbucker.

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Why?

edro said:

Why?

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Acey said:

It needs to be stealthy and look like a humbucker.

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If you use PAF / P-90 size pole screws, you've lost the sound in just that.

If the pole screws are part of your visual requirement, I can't think of a solution that nails the sound and look at the same time. Maybe if you can find some plastic screws and drill out the centers on a lathe. Still won't look right, though.

If not, by all means, epoxy the guts of a mini into a regular PAF cover with the little screws centered into the holes of the cover and rock out all day.