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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
It's quite thin and a flat top so I'm not sure of the shaft lengths required but will remove on and have a look.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I have a friend who thinks that he might want to change the metal cover on a pre-owned, out of warranty Winterizer II humbucker. How much wax has been used in the air gap between the bobbins and the cover?
What are the specs on your Winterizer picks ups? Neck and bridge DCR, magnet types and wire guage etc. Does the Winterizer incorperate the ferrous reflector plate and wood spacers as found in the early models?
Some of the boring statistics used to appear on the OCP website. They vanished in the early 2018 redesign.
A single page takes a tragic 30+ seconds to load, my CPU is running at 80% of its total capacity, the fan comes on like a turbo kicking in and somewhere not far away a flop-eared bunny dies.
Are you using massive resolution photos?
My guess is that the majority of potential purchasers find the replacement pickups that they think they want by sight rather than by comparing specification statistics. (Who is to say that they are wrong?)
I saw the reference to the Winterizer 2s but just wanted to confirm about the originals.
Re Winterizers: All Winterizers vintage size or HB size use a ferrous inductor plate as per the originals. The wire is 42awg plain enamel as with the originals, and the magnets are alnico 5 (twin bars in the bobbin centres ... exactly as in the original. DCR is around 6.7 neck, 7.5k bridge.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I have no vintage original pickups or guitar with which to make A/B comparisons. I can report, however, that the Winterizers are sufficiently close that they reproduce that phenomenon of the bridge/Treble position pickup being ever so slightly less powerful than one might wish.
In my opinion, this apparent weakness is actually the pickup pair's greatest strength. Put the selector switch in the Both position. Roll the bridge/Treble pickup volume down to 8 or thereabouts. Revel in those Blues-Rock tones.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
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My order will be coming your way