Why would you get a pickup 're wound'?

[JimmyMoorby]

A very soft question on my part but I am curious. I know BKP offers a re winding service but in what circumstances would you get a pickup re wound?

[Kiichi]

A very soft question on my part but I am curious. I know BKP offers a re winding service but in what circumstances would you get a pickup re wound?

If it is broken in some way. IIRC BKP only rewind vintage pubs that have some sort of fault. Time can do a lot and if the winding, coils, etc break or get damaged you might have to rewind it to spec to be able to continue to use it.

My father for example has one of those original Beatles Höffner bass guitars where one of the original pickups cr@pped out and now he replaced it with a modern reproduction. I´d one day rather have the original one fixed, probably rewound, by someone who knows what he is doing like Tim, to not have to use a modern reproduction. Quality first.

[FELINEGUITARS]

As Kilchi says - a broken coil is one good reason

Players with a vintage guitar whose pickups either have a fault  or where one pickup is out of step sonically with the others (and maybe always has been) - for example a strat bridge pickup that is way too weak and thin sounding compared to the other two is not uncommon, and the player wants to keep everything as original as possible whilst fixing the issue so they can enjoy playing the guitar rather than just owning it.

[darkbluemurder]

Or - getting a different sound for a pickup format which is not commercially available. The Hofner guitars would indeed be a good example for that.

Cheers Stephan

[Serratus]

Tim has rewound a few 7 string single coils for me in the past, because BKP didn't make them. So I managed to find some second hand singles custom made somewhere else, and then asked Tim to re-wind them to some BKP 6-string single coil specs.

[JimmyMoorby]

Interesting.  Ta very much!

[Telerocker]

I guess people want to have their minihumbuckers rewound.