Starfire III (1966) pickup phase situation

[Walter Broes]

Agreed!

 

[SFIV1967]

Take the pickguard off, unscrew the neck pickup surround from the guitar and look at the underside of the pickup. You'll see it has a tab, a bracket on the bottom. Carefully unsolder the wires coming out of the pickup and reverse them going to the tab, and you're done. It'll make sense when you see it.

Ralf

 

[Walter Broes]

Thanks Ralf, that helps

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Pre-internet lore even, I think!
In any case, I think if that guitar didn't (accidentally?) come from the factory OOP and the story that a "repair guy" gave it back to Green that way is correct, he must have at least had a "Eureka!" moment with it. (As quite a few of his heroes used purposely/factory OOP Gibson models to their advantage..)

What contributed to the internet lore about the Green LP was the turned-around-pickup and a lot of people assuming that thát is what caused it to be OOP.

Truth is that a Gibson bucker needs to be opened up and have the magnet flipped for phase reversal : the braided shield lead wire on a typical Gibson pickup prevents you from reversing the leads on it, or you'd be soldering the cover ground to the pot's "hot" lug, and that doesn't work. Simply reversing the pickup in the surround doesn't change the phase on it.

You are right, the magnet on That pickup was flipped, I think by accident. I believe the pickup was put back in the wrong way round because the cable had been shortened, perhaps due to damage, and was too short when the pickup was put back the right way round