Fender Coronado XII pickups question

[Peter Krasov]

A year ago or so I got my sunburst Fender Coronado XII



I'm very pleased with this guitar: very convenient, light-weight with nice chiming unplugged sound. But there's a huge problems with it: it's pickups. They are weak (especially bridge), anemic and lifeless. Also they hum a lot (much more that any other single coils), and have terrible feedback.

Has anyone had such an experince with Coronados? I would like to find the solution of this problem, and I'm thinking over the following variants:
a) Rewinding pickups in accordance with my specs;
b) Replacing the pickups with P-90s or humbuckers?

What would you suggest?

Thanks.

[darkbluemurder]

Hi,

No personal experience with a Coronado unfortunately. The conversion to humbuckers would almost certainly require the enlargement of the pickup routes so that would not be the preferred solution if you want to be able to restore the guitar to original condition later. A conversion to P90s could be possible but P90s do hum as well - which may be not as bad as before if the pickups have more output. Maybe you can post the dimensions of your pickups, then it would be easier to tell if P90s fit.

Rewinding is another option of course but if the pickups are single coils they will also hum after having been rewound.

Best to ask Tim directly.

Cheers Stephan

[shobet]

Nice collection of hockey sticks there Peter.

[gwEm]

what an ace looking guitar. too bad about the sound :(

the pickups are a big part of that guitars look. i'd be looking at the rewind option if it was me.

[HTH AMPS]

the pickups on the sunburst one look vaguely like DeArmonds - maybe look into repro pickups of that kind first before rewinding the original pickups.

[Ratrod]

Have you measured the output in Kohms at various points?

Could be something wrong with the wiring/electrics.