Guild Franz pickup nudies

[jp]

I saw these pictures of a Guild Franz pickup deconstructed on this site, and I thought it might be useful to post them here. Some good tech info to have on the LTG.
http://curtisnovak.com/pickups/repairs/Guild-P90/index.shtml

I had no idea they were so hairy when exploded. Perhaps this guy is a good resource for rewinding.

 

[capnjuan]

Thanks JP: fascinating pics on the guy's webpage. CJ

 

[jp]

Yeah, he does some painstaking restoration work.

People like him are pretty special. He's just like my luthier go to guy. If he can repair the original, with as little alteration as possible, he will. On my 60s Hofner Club Bass, I desperately needed a new nut and even supplied him with a new period-correct repro. It would have been so easy to just cut a new one, and I actually asked him to. Instead, he made a perfect color-matched shim to the exact-needed height and glued it under the original to raise it up. It looks seamless.

 

[Chris Metcalfe]

I saw those pix too on Curt's site a few months ago and emailed him about the pickups - it looked like 43 gauge wire to me, to be so hairy!!!!. I was particularly interested in their dc resistance, as Jason Lollar reckons the franz's he has seen average about 5k, although the franzs on my 56 x500 measure 6.8k, ewhich made me wonder if they had been rewound. In any event, Curt says that he has seen franz pickups wound anything up to 12 k - so obviously either there was a huge variation in the original pickups, or else there are a lot of rewinds out there!!

 

[dklsplace]

Testing the ones on my newly acquired Aristocrat project shows 4.85 & 4.9k.

 

[danerectal]

Bump for Darryl...

 

[mrfjones]

I saw that pickup on his site too. it does look like it is awfully thin gauge wire but with the dc resistance so low I would have thought it would have been thicker gauge wire.

 

[Walter Broes]

it does look like it is awfully thin gauge wire but with the dc resistance so low I would have thought it would have been thicker gauge wire.

Me too - I guess the "power" in these pickups really is in the magnets..