Just for the sake of clarity for the newbies: they talk about coil *tapping*, but they really mean coil *splitting*; not the same thing, but lots of otherwise well-informed people talk about them like they are the same. Coil splitting is taking a humbucker and only using one of the two coils it has, making it sound like a single-coil pickup. Coil tapping is actually fairly rare. A tapped coil can be a humbucker or a single-coil; to simplify it, let's talk about a tapped single-coil. The pickup has an input wire, a certain number or windings on the bobbin, then a wire out, then more windings, and then another wire out. You can choose between more or less windings that way, which makes the pickup more or less "hot". That's your pedantry for the day!
"I've never known anyone to coil tap a 335." Ummm... Epiphone has offered coil tapped options for much of their line up. I own an Epi ES 335 Pro that is coil tapped.
Gibson 335s had a coil tap switch for quite a while in the 70s. I've seen references to it from 1973 to 1979 and played a friend's one that had it. The switch was on the lower horn.
I would fully cover the front of the guitar before any work starts. Any burrs and tiny bits of metal easily scratch the surface as i have found out from my last pick up fit. That is not acceptable.
NIce upgrade, but not sure why you didn't put in push/pull pots and set up coil tapping as long as the guitar was already apart. $10.00 in additional parts and you have the best of both worlds. The pickup manufacturer wired them with 4 wire leads for a reason.
I'd rather have this nice silver hair guitar tech chap to do the pickup swapping job on my semi hollow guitar instead of doing it myself and get into the panic hissy sweaty mode
![Mick’s Gibson ES-335 Gets New Pickups & Loom [Hardest Pickup Swap Ever?]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Out2LP6Tafc/mqdefault.jpg)
got a guitar with steve at the moment for a refret ,brilliant bloke whos done some great setups and repairs for me.
I have both pickups in a Harley Benton CS24, a fantastic upgrade.
Just for the sake of clarity for the newbies: they talk about coil *tapping*, but they really mean coil *splitting*; not the same thing, but lots of otherwise well-informed people talk about them like they are the same.
Coil splitting is taking a humbucker and only using one of the two coils it has, making it sound like a single-coil pickup.
Coil tapping is actually fairly rare. A tapped coil can be a humbucker or a single-coil; to simplify it, let's talk about a tapped single-coil. The pickup has an input wire, a certain number or windings on the bobbin, then a wire out, then more windings, and then another wire out. You can choose between more or less windings that way, which makes the pickup more or less "hot".
That's your pedantry for the day!
Loving the video so far. Thanks.
The most helpful video I ever found. thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful!
Great stuff thanks for this 👍
Thanks for all the info
Steve is a great guy i take all my guitars to him for setups .Me Ipswich.
Great video! Would love to know his soldering iron temp setting.
Awesome thanks 😊
Great to see behind the scenes at Guitarlodge.
I have a pair of Seymour Duncan pickups that I want to put into my Firefly Hollowbody guitar
IMHO you should have gone to CTS pots as soon as you discarded following the original loom.
"I've never known anyone to coil tap a 335." Ummm... Epiphone has offered coil tapped options for much of their line up. I own an Epi ES 335 Pro that is coil tapped.
Gibson 335s had a coil tap switch for quite a while in the 70s. I've seen references to it from 1973 to 1979 and played a friend's one that had it. The switch was on the lower horn.
Isn't it easier just to splice the new pickup wires onto the old ones?
It might be (as a last resort), unless you want to replace other components as well. Cleaner job.
I would fully cover the front of the guitar before any work starts. Any burrs and tiny bits of metal easily scratch the surface as i have found out from my last pick up fit. That is not acceptable.
NIce upgrade, but not sure why you didn't put in push/pull pots and set up coil tapping as long as the guitar was already apart. $10.00 in additional parts and you have the best of both worlds. The pickup manufacturer wired them with 4 wire leads for a reason.
It’s funny, James and I had that conversation and agreed if it’s a “335” it should be a 335. But totally get the reason why James should have done it.
I'd rather have this nice silver hair guitar tech chap to do the pickup swapping job on my semi hollow guitar instead of doing it myself and get into the panic hissy sweaty mode
not sure thats what i would use to protect the finish..yikes pretty risky
WHAT THE FUCK IS SIGNAL DROP ....NEVER HEAR SUCH NONSENSE 🙀🙀
call me wrong, but this is not a 335 lol ho ho ho..
335 Style.