Fixing a pickup on a 1963 Fender Stratocaster
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The middle pickup on this '63 Strat is a zombie. Even though it has died, it's still making sound. Erick Coleman identifies the problem, and we watch him ever-so-carefully tear the pickup down and rewind it.
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Awesome work Erick! Came out sounding fantastic.
Fender why has no one noticed this comment
The middle pickup of my MIM '95 Fender Strat Special doesn't work anymore due to a pickguard swap; i noticed a slight pierce in the wire that happened some time when the cover came off while removing from the pickguard. After loading the pickups into the new pickguard I did the screwdriver tap to the polepiece and it was an extremely low volume drop that's almost dead compared to the bridge and neck pickups; it's going to need a rewind.
I doubt that this is actually the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation commenting on this video as they have their own videos I could be wrong, but I highy doubt it.
Solaris Moon just click the link fool also why wouldn’t it actually be them
hello senpai
When someone cares even for the original position of the screws, you know that this is a damn fine job=)))
no, it just means that you are dealing with pain in the neck - person...
@@satman1w ...good point, but the customer only cares about correct results on his vintage Strat pickup... not the workman.
Totally UNnecessary...
It does look off if you put the pick guard screws back in the wrong places, some rust more than others due to where they get sweated on.
Something so simple to do, a nice detail. Why not do it? Those who dont think so are the guys with duct tape fixes on everything.
I am addicted to watching this kind of craftsmanship
I get extremely excited when I notice a 12 minute long StewMac video.
10,000 Rambos yes me too
I've heard of fixing a fender on a pickup.
This is the first time I've heard of fixing a pickup on a Fender.
Sorry, but I just love a good pun.
No reason to apologize about puns to pun enthusiasts. It's been a year, I'm the first to reply to you, and I see no groans. Even if someone's angry, I'm sure you can "fender" off any insults; "pickup" your pun book, and book them a reservation to a Punitentiary.
Don't take it too seriously. 😜
He who would pun would pick a pocket
"Lesser of two weezils" Master and Commander
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I might pick up where you left off and keep on trucking with the puns.
Always a pleasure to Erik diagnose and explain the problem and corresponding resolution. Cheers!
Love that you put the screws back where they went. True sign of a top notch guy.
"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology."
You are a mega class act. Always inspiring to see a craftsman willing to share such a valuable part of his trade. You clearly care about keeping the fleet going for years to come.
Thanks...
I just slightly heated the joints where the wires enter the pickup and it worked! You saved my bacon. Big thanks
Dude , you saved my life , i got a brand new vintage 64 Telecaster picks and after a few Days the neck stopped working . So I tried te trick of melt again the point and she came back 🥲 thanks aaaaalot . Cheers from Mexico
Sounds like celluloid pick guards and I have some things in common. 4:01
I hope the customer got a call before that rewind. He or she might have built their whole career around that weak middle pickup sound...Hahahahaha
Paul McCaffrey good point!
I hope so too, because when he cut that wire I felt a bit queasy.
Yeah, I have to be honest, I kind of liked that thin sound
They sure did. The weak pickup was one of the reasons it came into the shop.
I had a '56 strat with bakelite covers. The neck and middle covers were damaged and both pickups were weak/thin. The middle was too weak but the neck was magic. It was worth adjusting amp settings to accommodate.
If it was a short, the resistance would have been lower, not higher. It's worth it to try unwinding one turn and re-solder that end of the wire. That has worked for me in the past.
Good catch !
I take 100 winds off the bobbin, so there's a fresh layer "exposed" that's never been out before. You can usually get away with removing 300-500 turns depeding on which pickup it is, and if keeping the pickup original is important.
yes exactly
Yup, definitely misdiagnosed and probably more radically repaired than necessary. A few hundred turns removed would have probably cleared the problem. In general, even very capable guitar mechanics like Erik should leave pickup repair work to a specialist.
I'm curious, since I'm not an expert on something like this kind of problem, is there a consensus, among you folks who are more informed, that he actually did misdiagnose the problem and do more repair then was probably necessary?
I had a 61 strat with middle pu out. I was told to go see Peter Green yes that Peter Green. Peter told me to go see a guy about 50 miles away. The guy had worked at Alembic and said it was a brake in the winding and that a lot of times the brake could be close to the end and usually in the last 50 winds He started unwinding at after 8 unwinds there was the break, also confirmed by the ohms meter. Instead of ditching the 8 unwinds he said it could alter the tone. So he tinned the breaks under heavy magnification and perfectly soldered them and reassembled. Totally unnoticeable. He wanted $50 for the repair. I gave him $100 the year was 1979 and I had paid $1100 for the 61 Strat. Even in 1979 the value of the guitar instantly doubled. And ol Peter Green, was a very nice, helpful and friendly guy. This is a true account. so do not just start hacking away at the coil wire just give a bunch of careful unwinds
And if you have a winder make a note of which unwind revealed the break. Cheers
I like seeing people do the work the right way...carefully. Bravo.
Wow. Skilled, Meticulous and knowledgeable, the only words I can find to describes this mans care for the instrument.How I wish he was here, in the UK, to look after my guitars.
Real copper wire and big thick wires. I'll bet they didn't use that crappy tin on there either.
i understand what you're saying, but let's get real, those thick wires mean nothing... :} plus the pickup went bad..
They mostly used what was available, both good and bad.
@@duroxkilo I've had super thin wires break inside the guitar before. Fuck all to do with tone but I'll happily eat the extra 2 or 3 bucks a guitar to give it quality pushback wire that actually has some meat to it.
Such dilligent work. I really respect that level of care.
Your reading was about 285 Kiloohms, which indicates an open, not a short. A short would reduce the resistance of the coil below the nominal 6k. I agree that the insulation has most likely broken down, but what's more likely is that there was a break in the wire and the insulation breakdown provided a high impedance path between the broken connections, so it still registered a value and produced some sound.
Testing magnets for charge after testing open circuit was a bit weird too. For all he knew I could have just been the switch that was poked.
There was still a 250K volume pot across the pickup. Explains everything in conjunction with either an open coil or more probably a bad connection at the switch.
It was .285 K ohms, which is 285 ohms.
1:06 .260 megaohms
It's not a short, the DC resistance would have gone lower, not higher. What probably happened is you had a break deep enough into the coil that there were still a number of windings to the output, and enough capacitance to the ground side so that there was still sound produced. It was weak and missing the low end because of the capacitive coupling between the two sections of the coil.
You could actually replicate this by winding half the windings, cutting the wire, and finishing the rest of the windings without a DC connection though the coil.
yeah. kind of like that weird coil split that ibanez used to do on single coils. it cuts pickup in half for a thinner sound but in this case it wasn't switchable.
exactly this, thank you.
Agreed.
I love the way you work here. Years ago, when I worked in a coil winding workshop, I picked up a tip for dealing with very fine wires. The leadouts are very fragile and can break at the solder terminal. However, if you fold the wire ends back on themselves twice for about six inches, they become quad wire and stronger. The quad wire gets wound into the coil so the whole leadout is much stronger. I wonder if this might be useful when winding your own pickups.
The man clearly love what he is doing and taking great care in doing it.
"Bright shiny solder joints which no one likes to see!" That cracks me up!
Watching a master of his craft is always a pleasure.
Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing.
I like your little jig for the screws. I've been known to use pill boxes that you can get at your local pharmacy. Sometimes they're complimentary. thanks for the pick up info
Love watching a pro work! I always pick up some new bit of information. Thanks for the great quality video.
What an awesome video. I never knew you could repair a pick up. I thought that once it was damaged you bought a replacement.
This is why you always find a good luthier. Great video.
A satisfied customer...and now, a new subscriber.
Very nice job.
Hand wound pickups sound sweeter than perfect wound precise machine wound coils. This is due to the fact that the OD of each turn is a little larger or for example more length of wire is used on a hand wound at the same amount of turns. A perfect digital winder with precise progression which creates a perfect ribbon of wire side by side on the layers takes less wire per turn due to less buildup of wire. The lower buildup to achieve the same DCR would require more turns. The inductance is the key for the resonant peak frequency anyway. More turns would mean a higher inductance and in my opinion the more perfect machine wound pups sound more harsh. The more perfect machine wound pickups which utilize the more perfect progression side by side etc move the resonant frequency point around or different than the hand wound pups and sound different. The random wound coils seem to put some mojo and sweetness to the pups.
DC Bluez I’ve heard that Leo’s little helper would wind pickups by hand , and the wire would regularly cross the bobbin . This was known as scatter wound pickups , giving that unique sound . Trust me I’m no expert , so would this create a unique sound . Thanks for reading
I gotta admit, watching him cut through all that vintage wire and then pull it off sent shivers up and down my spine! LOL
Zelomeister You should know I buy vintage pickups, and remove all the old wire and rewind to my own specs without ever testing the original values. I ball the old wire up, beat it flat with a hammer, and then melt it down and cast it in a mold of Jimi Hendrix playing a Hamer.
Oqsy.... LOL. Sadist!
Criminitly guys
... mechanical failure happens. Do you want a player or a museum piece?
so there is a process for the old wire to become new in shape?
i thought he threw away the old wire and rewired the pickup with new so i was a bit shocked
sorry for my english
Meh. Wire is wire.Nothing special about old copper.
Leo Fender would be SO impressed Erick. You da man. :)
Excellent information. Especially the part about keeping track of where every screw goes! I use the same rule on my car restorations.
.260 megaohm means about 250 kiloohms which indicates it's the volume pot you're measuring, hence there is no pickup parallel to the pot which would lower this resistance to 5-6k. that means the pickup is open (broken wire), not shorted.
pete seitz But theres no resistance on the pot when turned right up (which it is when measuring)?
Also if pickup was COMPLETELY open, there would be no sound at all.
pete seitz (Apologies, on reflection I guess an open circuit would give you the 250k pot value reading)
Good catch, thanks.
Good explanation . . . Electronics is a mysterious dark art to those not familiar and we tend to forget that after we've been at it a while.
I did notice that he didn't show us the multimeter reading when he measured the pickup itself. He just said, "Yup, something's wonky here" and forged ahead. I like StewMac a lot, because they have some great products, and Dan and Erick have affable personae, but I try to remind myself that these videos are, first and foremost, to sell products.
this was where i first learned how pickups look and are made thanks.
I love that whoever owns this guitar doesn’t have any scratch marks on the pick guard. That says great technique. That’s how I was taught
you can tell how this guy loves his work
Just found your channel and am very impressed with your craftsmanship and attention to detail. This is amazing, thanks for sharing your talent!
You are an artist sir.
Oh wow I’m so relieved to see someone who puts the screws back exactly where they were originally from. I had a feeling I wasn’t the only one, it’s reassuring to see lol
Great Video And Detail Explanation Of Process! Ciao, ALDO
Lets Scallop the fret board and put some YJM pickups on that guitar , Yngwie Malmsteen Strat
Nice to see a craftsman who cares about the guitars heritage and the owner and has pride in his work. Great job.
you are trully a professional. Thanks for the video
Like the E-Type Jaguar, Coke Cola bottle or AC Cobra, the Fender Stratocaster, is one of the sexiest, most recognisable and classic shapes of all time. This is a very pretty guitar indeed.
Shorts don't increase resistance.
Aurthor Thing I was wondering the same thing
They do if they're too small and you really got to go.
The shorts actually do increase resistance. If you take them off she will thank you!!!
What I questioned was the pickup had the correct resistance when tested alone but when the middle pickup was mixed it was really weak? My first thought would have been the pickup switch was worn out? Obviously it sounded great after the rewind. Great rewind work. I had frolic do my 63 precision pickup and it sounds fantastic! So the rewind if done properly it is back to new condition. It’s unfortunate but they do wear out if used hard professionally over years of use. Thankfully they can be reworked like new.
Bill Lanham He had a bad contact somewhere, more probably at the switch. What he measured was the volume pot. Totally wrong repair. And total BS about the screws too. They should all have been replaced. Rust is a cancer and will spread.
To preserve the "vintageness" of the guitar, I would have tried just remelting the wax on the coils. It might have been enough to fix the shorted wires.
That may not be a permanent solution
Going by the resistance reading (285K ohm) I would assume it was a break in the wire getting a partial connection. That said, we never find out what the winding resistance was without the volume in-circuit so it's hard to know exactly how bad it was.
Normal reading around 6k ohms. Faulty coil reading approx 200k ohms. This isn't a short somewhere, it is what I would have called in my telephone engineer days a 'high resistance dis' (disconnection). I'd guess part or parts of the wire was breaking down physically or chemically resulting in these parts having a much higher resistance than good copper. Imagine measuring the resistance of a nice shiny new nail, probably less than 1 ohm. Now measure a similar length and diameter nail that has just about rusted through (but not broken) its resistance will be much much higher as the rust/corrosion isn't a good conductor and what little good metal is left wont be as good a conductor either. Given time the rusty nail will break which would then give an open circuit reading. I think Erick did a great job of diagnosing the fault he perhaps used the wrong terminology in his narration.
OMG, after so many usuful Videos by Stwemac, I am really shocked! I usually unwind the pickup, save the wire, fix the break and put the original wire back on. BTW the strange Value ist the value og the VOL pot!
He also didn't appear to check the wire at the switch end or the switch contacts for corrosion, at least not in this video. While that didn't turn out to be the problem, with a high resistance reading that should be an obvious check.
I've got a set from an 1980s USA Strat but one pickup is totally dead. I haven't got all that kit to fix it, so I will take off some of the windings and see if that will fix it, I might get lucky. Low output pickups always sound better, just listen to all those 1960/70s rock classics, you can actually hear the character of the amp - it growls - it's not all about tons of distortion!
As others here have done, I have wound off a few hundred turns to find a break and then re-soldered. An omhmeter now measures 5.3K instead of 6K. I can't hear any obvious detriment.
By the way, it was the same pickup (middle) and the symptoms were all the same as in the video.
What caused the fault is more interesting than the repair. I wish you had carefully unwound the coil looking for the fault instead of cutting it.
I have a 1962 Strat with a pickup issue. The workshop that fixed the pickup took away only a couple of feet wire and the problem was solved. Why cut away all the wire once and for all? Why not unwind the wire?
That screw holder, pure genius
Hope your being sarcastic.
Erick was a great guitar luthier nice fix btw.
Everybody's laughing about the "short" instead of open. That is not fair in my opinion since it is very easy for anybody sat behind a keyboard to find a mistake and try to shine emphasizing it.
However I do not understand the purpose of fully rebuilding an old pickup instead of swapping it for a brand new one. Changing the wires will definitely change the sound as I trully believe that the main part of the "vintage sound" has far more to do with all the wear and tear of the wires than the magnets themselves...
Erick Coleman identifies the problem ... no he doesn't
he needs to brush up his 8th grade physics
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Beautiful job! Magic!
What an amazing job!
Good thing Peter Green’s repair guy didn’t think “hey, this thing is out of phase”
Lol
Amazing job, congratulations!
This has got to be 1 of the most useful videos from Stewmac I've ever seen. Really cool, thanks. To all those saying he was wrong about the pickup short: who cares he just showed any noobs how to wind a strat pickup in a very detailed manner.
Joel Middaugh Not really a noob kindof job. That wire is fiddly to handle, learn to solder on something a bit bigger first.
I agree Joel
Frode Haugsgjerd oh yeah I would expect it not to go right a few times but some of us dont have any guidance and this definitely helps. Just to be clear I have plenty of experience wiring guitars. I just meant a noob to wiring pickups.
VERY, very nice video illustrating a thorough step by step process that with a little patience, anyuone with some basic talents can do this!
Question... with the high dollar winder and everything at your disposal why would you not unwind the pup so you could 1 count the wraps #2 possibly find the short and reapply lacquer and or make a splice? To keep with the integrity of the repair?
This is Bob Ross for guitars
i thought the same
Dan Erlewine even moreso, IMHO, but Coleman is great.
"There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents."
Fantastic job.
amazing work
Wow obviously an awesome tech
I can do the some job some years ago without a loss of original winding coil and the wire tip that was opened that time was at wind start side...
Excellent smithers
Release the coils!
Smithers, who is that man? *Um, that's Erick Coleman, sir.* I'll never forget that name...
It has gone open circuit like the bridge pickup in Roy Buchanan's Tele "Nancy" and is capacitively coupling between the windings, hence the thin sound.
This pickup had a break. An open coil will still make a weak, thin tone due to capacitive coupling. The corrosion killed it.
If the wires were shorting wouldn't the resistance be lower, not higher?
You are correct that if there was a short in the coil, then the resistance would be lower. Erick does mention that normally, if a pickup had a short you would not get any signal from it, but that's not the case with this pickup. A shot with a more specific description of the diagnosis did not make it into the final cut for this video (there was so much information to convey that it was impossible to touch on every point, and the video was still 12 min. long). Unfortunately, the term "short" was a misnomer for the actual diagnosis. This particular pickup's coil wire had corrosion throughout, like a cluster, which resulted in points of higher resistance.
I was surprised by the video. I was expecting the repairer to try to locate the break in the wire. I'm would be grateful to learn why not.
I bought an all but new Stratocaster and later realised it had the above described symptom. It was also the middle pickup. It too had the very high impedance that indicated an open circuit. I wound off about 400 turns till I found the break. I then resoldered it to the lug. It then measured about 5.2k. I suppose, with a winder, I could have wound those turns back on after fixing the break. I might do the that one day for the sake of integrity. Anyway, still not really happy, I found and purchased another bridge pickup on eBay that should have been a proper replacement. Unfortunately it measured slightly lower in impedance than the one from which I removed hundreds of turns. I suspected the same had been done to it. Alternatively it could be a short causing the low impedance. Either way, I contacted the seller but never received a reply.
For confirmation I contacted Fender about the low impedance of the eBay pickup - I have always found them to be good - and it was suggested that even though its impedance seemed low, I just try it. Well I thought if that one is OK, the original should be OK, because even though I had removed hundreds of turns from it, it still indicted slightly higher impedance than the intended eBay replacement.
So the original is still in the guitar and to my ears sounds fine. The eBay pickup is still in my box of spare parts.
RIght on, if he'd put it on the winding machine and gently unwound it, he could have found the break within a few turns, possibly even the first one - did you see all that crap on the windings? That said, it is just a pickup, not the crown jewels.
Fascinating. Great explanation of the work! Thank you!
Very good video! Thank you for your time and effort, Erick.
Sometimes it worth unraveling the outer winding's in search of a break, I've come across a few breaks that were pretty close to the outer winding surface. Loosing 20 odd feet of wire but saving a vintage pickup is a plus. Even the lead edge of a winding can be unwrapped a little bit if its wound near the bobbin, not often though. If you find a break, and you didn't break the wire yourself you could disassemble the bobbin, not easy to do but possible and pull out a winding or 2.
Oh Heyal Yeah!!! You are so right. 20 years ago I had a Bentley Series 10 and the 'bucker died. I didn't know sheep from shinola about working on it but that Bentley made 20 some-odd way different sounds with the 5-way and 2 independent vols, before the mother bucker gave up the ghost. I really loved that guitar. So I figured, let's see what the center of a pickup looks like. What was I gonna do, break it? Took the pickup out and turned it over and over in my hand, poking it here and there and trying to look like I actually had some clue about what the hell I was doing (there were onlookers). I kept getting asked what I was gonna do to it, so I mumbled a bit, threw in a couple of "hmmm's", and told my audience that I had decided to get stoned and unwind it. Maybe 30 feet or so in there was a break. So after much consideration, and lots of helpful (ha ha) input from my buddies, I twisted the ends together, cut a little piece off a lead sinker (fishing I knew about a thousand times more than I did guitars), kinda sorta flattened it and wrapped it around the wire ends, and squished, wait, this was in Texas, so I should say "squarshed" it together with my fishing plyers, figuring the tool deserved a shot at it since it's buddy Mr. sinker took one for the team. Put it back together and woo hoo! it worked. Oh yeah, before painstakingly rewinding it by hand, during that time we spent(I say "we" because the onlookers had become my pit crew) considering all the options, Bob said "I'll fly if you'll buy" ('cause our mouths were getting dry), which got yeahs and yups (Texan for "yes") and hands in pockets for beer money. We couldn't do anything 'til Bob got back, so we hunkered down and got serious. We were like the driver and his pit crew at Nascar, working on the Bentley Special, getting it ready to Rock and Roll! Well, Bob got back and it was Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop!...and gulp gulp gulping...followed by some dang that's good's, thank yuh Jaysus'es (local dialect) and hoooweee!'s. More discussion and we decided I should put a coat of the old lady's clear fingernail polish on the repair and let that dry, which was just enough time to fire up another doobie. ....Doobie Brothers record, that's what I meant to say. Yeah. That. Anyway, gotter back together and that Bentley never sounded better! Then my buddy Bubba Joe( I swear!), who could actually play a guitar handed Mr Bentley back to me. Some mumbles, eh's, then a quick save, someone yelled "Barbecue!" which stared a chorus of Oh Heyal Yayuh's, couple of "Hey Bob! Go again?"'s , and IT WAS ON!!! ...Y'all take care, now. - David, a.k.a. the ConnMan.
The same can be done on some P90s. Have an experience on two of them.
Work done with great care, but.. why do you leave all the grunge on the guitar? Such as the pickup white cover? Why not clean everything? The previous video, the volume and tone knobs were gunky from sweat. Why not clean everything up?
Sorry but if the coil wires had shorted on itself you would have a very low resistance not a resistance on the higher Megaohms!!
Absolutely amazing! What skill it must take....?
20 years ago I had a Bentley Series 10 and the 'bucker died. I didn't know sheep from shinola about working on it but that Bentley made 20 some-odd way different sounds with the 5-way and 2 independent vols, before the mother bucker gave up the ghost. I really loved that guitar. So I figured, let's see what the center of a pickup looks like. What was I gonna do, break it? Took the pickup out and turned it over and over in my hand, poking it here and there and trying to look like I actually had some clue about what the hell I was doing (there were onlookers). I kept getting asked what I was gonna do to it, so I mumbled a bit, threw in a couple of "hmmm's", and told my audience that I had decided to get stoned and unwind it. Maybe 30 feet or so in there was a break. So after much consideration, and lots of helpful (ha ha) input from my buddies, I twisted the ends together, cut a little piece off a lead sinker (fishing I knew about a thousand times more than I did guitars), kinda sorta flattened it and wrapped it around the wire ends, and squished, wait, this was in Texas, so I should say "squarshed" it together with my fishing plyers, figuring the tool deserved a shot at it since it's buddy Mr. sinker took one for the team. Put it back together and woo hoo! it worked. Oh yeah, before painstakingly rewinding it by hand, during that time we spent(I say "we" because the onlookers had become my pit crew) considering all the options, Bob said "I'll fly if you'll buy" ('cause our mouths were getting dry), which got yeahs and yups (Texan for "yes") and hands in pockets for beer money. We couldn't do anything 'til Bob got back, so we hunkered down and got serious. We were like the driver and his pit crew at Nascar, working on the Bentley Special, getting it ready to Rock and Roll! Well, Bob got back and it was Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop!...and gulp gulp gulping...followed by some dang that's good's, thank yuh Jaysus'es (local dialect) and hoooweee!'s. More discussion and we decided I should put a coat of the old lady's clear fingernail polish on the repair and let that dry, which was just enough time to fire up another doobie. ....Doobie Brothers record, that's what I meant to say. Yeah. That. Anyway, gotter back together and that Bentley never sounded better! Then my buddy Bubba Joe( I swear!), who could actually play a guitar handed Mr Bentley back to me. Some mumbles, eh's, then a quick save, someone yelled "Barbecue!" which stared a chorus of Oh Heyal Yayuh's, couple of "Hey Bob! Go again?"'s , and IT WAS ON!!! ...Y'all take care, now. - David, a.k.a. the ConnMan.
Best comment :)
Today I learned that "wax potted" means dipped in a pot of melted (bees) wax. Very surprising!
Usually 80-85% paraffin and 15-20% beeswax.
You can use straight paraffin "Gulfwax" too.
Falsements or even epoxy or polystyrene resin
I didn’t know that plastic pick guards shrink.
The Strat with maple board looked super weird to me! the logo position is very different from the rosewood fingerboard one
Nice video. Glad to see the whole process.
With a vacuum pump, the wax will really penetrate the pickup.
You could sell those IF it's at a fair price.
Buy the pump from the makers of penis pumps in asia + kettle + tubing.
Some choose the wrong glass and they implode, so you'd also keep people safe.
If you had a EU weekend deal once in a while for packages including shipping under 150€, you'd have more sales over here.
I'm also seaching for an old video of Dan's Spraying booth that folded outward and he attached a shower curtain/foil with magnets. It seems you took it down.
Very professional! I love how you keep all of the details such as screw configuration, etc. in mind.
I just discovered this channel. I never really knew what was in a basic fender pickup. Brilliant stuff and as i do electronics anyway, i can do this if needed in the future if any of my pickups sound a bit weak & cheesy.
Whats the wax dipping for/do at the end of the video? Also are you using standard coated copper wire or special type for all pickups?
Thanks
Tim from Australia.
Excellent!
I have always told, if you don't want to end up with less screw, put them in position, after you star the job
You are definitely in the "I know what I'm doing" category. :-)
Think again.
That ASMR right there...
Excellent.
I don't know why I watched this... or why I enjoyed it... But I did
Great job man it sounds like a brand-new pickup or 🎸 guitar 😅
The thumb's down must be from people who only play the skin flute.
much good info, love it and need this done on my 70s strat :'(
At 4:28 replacing the pickguard the first time, by the bridge pickup there is what looks like cracking or indentation on the pickguard. And on the base looks like a new bad ding causing even more questions about the stability of the pickup. im siding on the side of Stewart. have it rewound .