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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Marco89 on September 26, 2006, 06:19:14 PM

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: Marco89 on September 26, 2006, 06:19:14 PM

Hey guys,

I'm new here, so I like to say Hi to everyone here. My english is too bad, but I'll give it a try..

Yesterday I recieved my Nailbomb witch I planned to put on the bridge of my Gibson SG special. I know how to put pickups in a guitar but.. I opened my guitar and it was wired strange but worked perfect. So I went on the internet and searched around, the wiring was standard Gibson SG wiring, but was totaly diverent than a standard LP wiring. The 2 pickups where soldered on the Neck volume pot or something. My first question: The LP and Sg are technicaly the same guitars. 2 pickups, 3-wayswitch, 2 tone and 2 volume pots. Why dous gibson do this, a diverent sound or something?

Anyway, I grabt my solder iron and changed the whole thing in a standard LP wiring (I understand how that works), put the Nailbomb in it. I checked it, and it worked. But, the thing is there is a volume diverence between the Nailbomb and the 490t I replaced. The 490t was a bit louder than the Nailbomb, I did not expect this. (it's a 2 conductor Nailbomb.) So I searched on the gibson website for the pickup resistance, but I couldnt find anything. So my second question is: Is this output diverence normal or a mistake I made somewhere in the wiring.

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: Peter Antal on September 26, 2006, 06:47:27 PM

Did you adjust the Nailbomb close enough to the strings? I have mine at 3 mm's in the bridge position.

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: Marco89 on September 26, 2006, 06:54:55 PM

I have mine at 2, 3 mm away from the strings, so that can't be the problem.

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on September 26, 2006, 07:45:11 PM

Sounds like the Nailbomb may be out of phase?

Title: CTFEC6
Post by: Marco89 on September 26, 2006, 08:42:43 PM

The pickup is not out of phase, and it sounds like a humbucker should. It combines good with the neck pickup, but it's weaker than the stock gibson 490's. The 490's are not that powerfull, so I'm wondering if I did something wrong..  :(

The first time I changed my stock epiphone pups to Gibson 500t and 498r the shop made a mistake with the wires. A few months later I opened the guitar and discovered/corrected their mistake and the guitar was about 30% louder, and better sounding..

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: fps_dean on September 27, 2006, 01:06:20 AM

This is wierd... the Nailbomb should be louder than a 498T and significantly louder than a 490T...  I don't get it...

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: Guitarzan on September 27, 2006, 02:17:20 AM

Make sure youhave a good solder joint.

My Nailbombs were fine for the first few days, but after beating around in my case a wire worked loose....not good for band practice!

The loosened wire was significantly quieter than the one that was soldered correctly. I'm guessing that a bad join has more resistance than a good join.

Hope that helps, not much of a guitar repairman myself.

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: Marco89 on September 27, 2006, 04:43:10 PM

Oke guys, thanks for the response, I'll solder it again, hopefully it works better. You will hear from me soon.

thanks

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: Marco89 on September 27, 2006, 06:08:07 PM

Yeah :D  It worked!

Pickup is now a lot louder, sounds thicker and great harmonics & tone.. love it! Thanks everyone!

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on September 27, 2006, 06:48:08 PM

Good deal, Marco!
Enjoy!!

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: Peter Antal on September 27, 2006, 07:43:35 PM

Nice! Have fun! :D

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: fps_dean on September 28, 2006, 04:53:08 AM

Nice.  Have fun with it.

Title: Nailbomb question
Post by: _tom_ on September 28, 2006, 07:41:04 AM

Glad you got it working. I think I'm gonna re-wire my Mules some time as I've got better at soldering now, maybe they'll sound even better  :o