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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The only problem really was going between the g string and the higher 2 and that's solved.
Surprised the stagger is so popular, to me that problem is a lot more important than many things people do as subtle tone tweaks.
Added to this the plastic bobbins have a nasty habit of melting around the soldering eyelets when you add the output wires. Many plastic bobbins have magnet sleeves too broad to allow you to wind 'heavy formvar', and so getting the early Strat sound is practically impossible as you run out of winding space before putting enough turns on.
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I impressed a friend the other day by diagnosing his dead USA P-Bass and fixing it in about five minutes from when he walked in the door... cold solder joint on a pickup bobbin. It would have only been four minutes if I'd guessed which bobbin correctly first .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
OilCityPickups said: CasperCaster said: none of the big pickup winders reverse wind anything - their RWRP pickups are wound in the same direction as their equivalent 'normal' pickups but they swap black/white with respect to coil start/finish - the magnet polarity is reversed and black/white are swapped, but that is all. Very true, but not the best way to wind RWRP pickups at all!
PS ... on non plastic bobbin pickups most small pickup winders will reverse the polarity of a middle pickup for you for a small charge.
Absolutely agreed just making the point since in some circumstances it's a useful hack.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
I wonder how often it really does damage the pickup if I did it on all 3 and it was fine.
https://i.imgur.com/u7v4CyZ.jpg?1
SSL52-1 RP/RW
SSL52-1 regular
APST-1 Twangbanger
I find it very hard to tell which it is with the wire on it.
Thank you so much for this post. As soon as I read it, I pushed the flat of my pick down on the G & D poles on each pickup (2005 MIA standard). They took some firm force but they shifted. Now that weird warble sound that I get on those strings above the 12th fret is gone. Been wanting to do this for years but was too nervous to try it. The annoying noticeable volume difference on the G is gone as well. Cheers