Walter Broes
Enlightened Member
The way the reissue mini-buckers ended up is a bit of a joke (unless you bought one of the guitars that have them), but thankfully, having a pickup rewound is not expensive at all.
The way the reissue mini-buckers ended up is a bit of a joke (unless you bought one of the guitars that have them), but thankfully, having a pickup rewound is not expensive at all.
1968 Starfire III
Neck: 7.29K resistance
Bridge: 7.23k Resistance
Newark Street Starfire lV
Neck: 7.25K resistance
Bridge: 5.08K resistance
Wow, no wonder the S-100s are dying on the vine, if this is the standard bridge value. That's a severely underwound pickup! That would also explain why every video has fuzztone on it.
Note to Fender/Guild:
Bump up the winding on the bridge pickups!
Synchro, your sig link is busted.
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There was a previous thread where I gave the part numbers of both mini humbuckers and Default just went to a guitar shop in Pennsylvania and ordered some as far as I know.Where are you getting the pickups? Fender? Córdoba? Aftermarket? I'm very interested.
There was a previous thread where I gave the part numbers of both mini humbuckers and Default just went to a guitar shop in Pennsylvania and ordered some as far as I know.
Ralf
Still haven't received them yet. I need to make a call.
Here you are:I'm trying to find the thread, but not having any success.
Steve ordered from Ackerman's as he wrote above. FMIC has nothing to do with Guild anymore, but I am not sure how CMG handles those orders for Newark St. spare parts now.If it's FMIC you're ordering from it can be an interminable wait. Their service-parts take forever to ship.
Here you are:
http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/sh...er-NAMM-2014&p=1648157&viewfull=1#post1648157
Sheet Music also offers them: Mini Humbucker Neck: http://www.music44.com/Merchant2/me...ROD&Store_Code=X&Product_Code=9-9102-049-KMC2
Mini Humbucker Bridge: http://www.music44.com/Merchant2/me...ROD&Store_Code=X&Product_Code=9-9103-049-KMC2
Steve ordered from Ackerman's as he wrote above. FMIC has nothing to do with Guild anymore, but I am not sure how CMG handles those orders for Newark St. spare parts now.
Ralf
FMIC is no longer responsible for anything Guild, all Guild parts are now under CMG, however there are probably many parts still out there with FMIC order number.The mini humbucker bridge pickups from Sheet Music are listed on their website as genuine Fender spare parts so it may be that these are also faulty and drastically under-wound as well! I recommend that you (or anybody else) confirms the resistance of the windings with Sheet Music before ordering; they also give a minimum 4-week delivery time from Fender.
I'll call Córdoba tomorrow. I think that, assuming that Córdoba intends to correct the error, the best thing to do is buy new pickups wound to the proper values. If not, I'll call TV Jones and see what he can do with the OEM pickups.
Don't they have different pole spacing? (?)
Yes, they do. Matsickma says swapping them doesn't make that much of a difference. Acornhouse helped me pick up a 7.4k rewound bridge minibucker, so we'll have an a/b comparision when that shows up.