LB-1 Reissue teardown

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Yes, swapping the 7.5k neck coil into the bridge baseplate and cover and vice versa. Probably not as neat as just having the bridge rewound, but it would be cool to have to identical guitars with matched pups in both. T-birds? Polaras? Sf3s?

 

[DThomasC]

Steve, are you swapping the slug coils around here or am I misunderstanding? If the former…what a cool idea! I'd be really interested in finding out how the pickups sound with "mismatched" (both in terms of wire thickness and number of turns) coils.

-Dave-

I think he's swapping the pair of coils together. But when you do that the coil that did have the solid slug will have the adjustable screws and vice versa. I understand that the bridge and neck pickups are different, but I have assumed that the two coils in any given pickup are similar. Could be wrong about that.

 

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this

I think I am going to need more q-tips. ;-/

You can swap coils 5k - 7.5k pretty easily, but the leads will end up on the wrong side of the coil. What you will have to to do, is putting the coils on a flat surface, push down to move the slug to the other side of the coil, like adjusting a Strat polepiece. then you can flip the coil and the leads will be where they should be.

 

[Quantum Strummer]

Ah, I get it: you're swapping the guts of both pickups while leaving the housings in place. I do wonder, though, what these pickups would sound like with mismatched coils, one ~3.7K 42 gauge and the other ~2.5K 41 (?) gauge. Maybe I'll try it out on my T-bird.

-Dave-

 

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I think he's swapping the pair of coils together. But when you do that the coil that did have the solid slug will have the adjustable screws and vice versa. I understand that the bridge and neck pickups are different, but I have assumed that the two coils in any given pickup are similar. Could be wrong about that.

Post under the pics explains how to correct that issue.

 

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And, I bought a hobbyist level pickup winder.

Like I don't have enough to do already!

 

[Bill Ashton]

I think you should look up the Gibson "Peter Greene" mistake and make them like that

 

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Actually, it's relatively easy to make them phaseswitchable, but you have to give up the plugs.

 

[Guildedagain]

Spared no expense on wax ;]

 

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The originals had epoxy, which makes rewinders angry.