Just did a rewind on half a Fender P bass pickup ...
Often rewinds are requested due to physical damage to the outer coils of an older pickup. This one was perfect on the outside ... but it was only when I stripped off the old coil that I discovered that sweat ... wicking down the pickup poles had rotted through the inner windings that lay against the magnets. This is one problem with Fender pickups of a certain age. These were not wax potted ... which would have kept the acid sweat out ... they were lacquer dipped. This fixes the outer coils well, and stops the unit being microphonic ... but ultimately provides little protection from corrosive sweat from creating havoc inside the pickup.
I lightly potted the rewound coil ... not wanting hot and steamy gigs to kill this pickup again.
More pickup stories soon
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I've put a superglue fillet on the top of unpotted Strat and Tele pickups around the magnet (under the cover obviously on a Strat) ... as a precaution before now. Superglue will probably get broken down by some peoples 'alien queen' bodily secretions fairly rapidly ... but it is better than nowt.
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I was going to get it fixed, but Kent Armstrong was still living here then, and he built me some lovely pickups, so I forgot about the Shecter.
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