NS Guitar pickup connectors

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Excellent! That confirms it, they are made by Yeon Ho in Korea and not LHE in China. If only one would have posted such a picture with the YH before, that would have saved me hours of research...It's sometimes such little info that is the key.

Anyway, riddle solved after so many years! Maybe one should tell the Guild/CMG and Gretsch/FMIC hotlines...

Ralf

The writing was so darned small I never knew it was there.

 

[MondoJim]

Old thread I know, but I just wanted to register to thank Ralf for doing the research and finding this answer when no one else was able to deliver elsewhere on the interwebs.

If anyone has any to sell I'd be happy to buy, or I'll just get a huge bag of a 1000 and use the remaining 996 connectors for decoration.

Keep up the good work.

 

[RyszBattery]

MondoJim, Did you buy the 1000pcs? I could use some. Also, Thanks Ralf!

 

[MondoJim]

MondoJim, Did you buy the 1000pcs? I could use some. Also, Thanks Ralf!

No, sorry. One place didn't reply (language barrier?) and the one US website that listed the items (www.sierraic.com) didn't have any in stock.

This post reminded me to check again and I did find one ebayer who is making a nice mark up on the pickup/male end set of two. https://www.ebay.com/itm/224533600817 (as of this posting).

I just placed an order for a pair, and I should get them next week.

 

[RyszBattery]

Thank you for the link. I ordered some too. They are having a good day!

 

[Midnight Toker]

A minute with a soldering iron.

<shrug>

Agree, or in this case, if they are just simple snap down connectors where you stick the unstripped wire into the slot and snap it closed (a V shaped metal slot cuts through the shielding to make contact w/ the wire) …then why bother buying mega bulk amounts of a specific brand when you can simply put a similar one on both ends that does the exact same thing? If you can add one on a new pup end, you can certainly clip off what’s there and add it’s male/female counterpart on the guitar end. Shouldn’t be a struggle. A connector is a connector.

 

[GAD]

Agree, or in this case, if they are just simple snap down connectors where you stick the unstripped wire into the slot and snap it closed (a V shaped metal slot cuts through the shielding to make contact w/ the wire) …then why bother buying mega bulk amounts of a specific brand when you can simply put a similar one on both ends that does the exact same thing? If you can add one on a new pup end, you can certainly clip off what’s there and add it’s male/female counterpart on the guitar end. Shouldn’t be a struggle. A connector is a connector.

While I agree with most of what you wrote, connectors are not all the same and there are reasons for using different connectors for different purposes.

One example of why changing the connector would be bad is if you ever sell the guitar or pickup because now the connectors don’t match the standard.

Guitar pickups generate microvolts so there is no concern for capacity here, but if this were a more powerful circuit the wrong connector could lead to failure or fire.

 

[GGJaguar]

the wrong connector could lead to failure or fire.

 

[Uke]

The question is, "Were there wrong connectors in the guitar, or in Jimi's head?"

 

[MondoJim]

Agree, or in this case, if they are just simple snap down connectors where you stick the unstripped wire into the slot and snap it closed (a V shaped metal slot cuts through the shielding to make contact w/ the wire) …then why bother buying mega bulk amounts of a specific brand when you can simply put a similar one on both ends that does the exact same thing? If you can add one on a new pup end, you can certainly clip off what’s there and add it’s male/female counterpart on the guitar end. Shouldn’t be a struggle. A connector is a connector.

Of course, but some people want to do reversible mods and those connectors fit certain modern Guilds, Electromatic Gretschs (maybe Streamliners too?) and Epiphones, so they cover a number of Korean made guitars.

I leave my grandfather's 1954 X350 alone even though that will never be sold but the Electromatic may need to go on the market someday so bridges, pickup magnets, pickup covers, pickups themselves, etc. will need to go back to original.

I will concede that almost no one wants 1000 of those connectors but they are cheap if you can get them!

 

[Midnight Toker]

I get all that, but honestly, offshore guitars and remaining 100% stock IMO is not exactly…desirable. Actually the opposite in most cases. Vintage Hoboken? Definitely. Otherwise I’d be most happy seeing no connectors at all. I was just saying, for the purpose of trying out a bunch of pups, it’s not worth going to Timbuktu to find the EXACT matching one. Just one that works. You can always go back to the original that matches the original pup. It’s honestly not that big of a deal.

 

[MondoJim]

If find that you rarely recoup your money on mods to those types of (or any) guitars and having the guitar close to standard helps them move a little faster. So I'd rather not mess them up too much and sell the addons separately. If you swap in Dynasonics in a guitar that is known for Filtertrons it can narrow your scope of buyers.

But yeah, this is all minor stuff in the scheme of things.

For me personally, I just hate fishing all of the electronics out of hollowbody to solder in anything. Those goofy quick connects in the Korean guitars make it trivial to swap the pickups in that situation. If this was a solidbody I'd probably just desolder/solder.