Pickup fault, help needed !!

wrinkleygit

Recently acquired a pair of Bill Lawrence noiseless (humbucking) tele pickups, the bridge pickup is installed in my Esquire partscaster and is excellent. 

  However the neck pickup had both tails broken off and one of the coil to tail wires broken, this was clearly visible before I purchased the set and as a result I have no issues with the vendor. 

  Next step was to have a good look, removed the tape from the lower coil, unwind some wire and resolder to new tail, but still no continuity across the tails, inspected the top coil and have continuity, but nothing through the lower, base, coil, I was hoping my soldering iron would be hot enough to melt the wire coating and I’m now thinking this is where the fault lies, any suggestions welcome, thanks in advance, Mike B.

Funkfingers

Scrape away some wire coating with a craft knife.

wrinkleygit

Funkfingers said:

Scrape away some wire coating with a craft knife.

Thanks, I’ll give that a go in the next couple of days .

ICBM

Just be *very* careful - it's extremely easy to accidentally shorten the wire instead of scraping the coating off. There is a reason I know this .

wrinkleygit

ICBM said:

Just be *very* careful - it's extremely easy to accidentally shorten the wire instead of scraping the coating off. There is a reason I know this .

Can’t imagine what that might be !!!!!

wrinkleygit

Thanks for the advice everyone, had a look last night using a magnifying led craft lamp and it looks like someone has been there before me, I think there is a break somewhere in the winding, so I’ll wait until the new year now and look into getting the lower coil rewound.

ICBM

wrinkleygit said:

I’ll wait until the new year now and look into getting the lower coil rewound.

@OilCityPickups is the best bet for stuff like this, repairing unusual or difficult to work on pickups. There are a couple of threads here worth having a look at - the DiMarzio mini-humbucker one in particular.

wrinkleygit

ICBM said:

wrinkleygit said:

I’ll wait until the new year now and look into getting the lower coil rewound.

@OilCityPickups is the best bet for stuff like this, repairing unusual or difficult to work on pickups. There are a couple of threads here worth having a look at - the DiMarzio mini-humbucker one in particular.

Thanks, I’ve seen good things about him on here, once I get Christmas out of the way I’ll contact him.

OilCityPickups

wrinkleygit said:

ICBM said:

wrinkleygit said:

I’ll wait until the new year now and look into getting the lower coil rewound.

@OilCityPickups is the best bet for stuff like this, repairing unusual or difficult to work on pickups. There are a couple of threads here worth having a look at - the DiMarzio mini-humbucker one in particular.

Thanks, I’ve seen good things about him on here, once I get Christmas out of the way I’ll contact him.

Yep that's the sort of issue that gets me up in the morning ... sigh ... :-)

wrinkleygit

OilCityPickups said:

wrinkleygit said:

ICBM said:

wrinkleygit said:

I’ll wait until the new year now and look into getting the lower coil rewound.

@OilCityPickups is the best bet for stuff like this, repairing unusual or difficult to work on pickups. There are a couple of threads here worth having a look at - the DiMarzio mini-humbucker one in particular.

Thanks, I’ve seen good things about him on here, once I get Christmas out of the way I’ll contact him.

Yep that's the sort of issue that gets me up in the morning ... sigh ... :-)

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