Who has trouble fitting pickups?

[rsterren]

lol, next time use a piece of ducktape to hold the spring back and make a hole in it for the screw to get trough....

[TriCe]

If you have a digital camera you could always take a photo of the original soldering before trying soldering by yourself. That way you always have something to look at if you should forget how the wires are connected. Thats how i do it  :)

Pardon my english, I'm swedish  

[FELINEGUITARS]

Kind of goes without saying that I'm more than ok wiring in pickups. Soldering is an artform and requires quite a lotr of practise.
Generally speaking when it comes to soldering - cleanliness is next to Godliness.
I like to see a very neat, tidy organised wiring arrangement and hope to make them look that good myself.
The tidiest soldering I ever saw was on a GMP guitar - ultra tidy!
Was kind of like the ultra neat soldering and wiring on 1970s Hiwatt amps by Henry Joyce (or was it Harry Joyce) - legendary stuff.

[HJM]

It's Harry Joyce  -very cool stuff, I've played and looked in some post HiWatt Harry Joyce amps, they're super super tidy, like you say - work of art!

[The amazing Phil]

I don't have too much difficulty like I imagined I would, I'm gonna rewire my SG knock-off over and over until I can really get it right 100% before I actually go in with a soldering iron and a nice guitar. That thing's becoming something of a guinea pig anyhow, it's neck went kind of "nmeeeeeeeuuuuygh" so I can't see much use for it now apart from refinishing and rewiring practice.

[Tinus]

My first post on this forum!! Hi there y' all!!

I went for it myself and encountered no serious trouble although it was very timeconsuming and finnicky as I was working on an Epi Casino. My tech was mighty pleased I did it myself (COWARD!!  :twisted: ).

Because of some shielding/interference issues I actually did it three times in a row  :roll:  with different types of hookup wire and found out that for this particular type of guitar the easiest way seemed to be soldering two separate tone/volume assemblies first (tonepot w/capacitor - wire - volumepot - wire to selector). After soldering these to the pickup wire I pulled them into place with a piece of string attatched to the shaft of the tonepot. With both units in place I then soldered both and the output wire to the selector switch.

Regards,
Martijn

[The amazing Phil]

Hollowbody guitars always looked really scary to rewire, what I wanna know is what you're meant to do with LP supremes... there's no cover at the back! Just plain maple, and I'm sure they can't be using "the force".

[Skybone]

Traditionally, I've taken them to a tech to solder in new pickups, I had the shop fit my Black Dog set in my Tokai.

Recently, I bought a beaten up Ibanez Iceman (a 1980 IC50), that had been refinished red by hand (you could see the brush marks!) and had a pair of Ibanez V5 bar type pickups (16.5k Ohm), but they sounded a bit too much 80's for my liking. I took them out, and put the SD's from my Love Rock in it. No sound! After checking everything twice, I admitted defeat and took it to the shop where I got the BKP's. After a bit of investigsating, they had to replace the switch and it's wiring. Anyway, I recently re-refinished it, and fitted the pickups myself, and amazingly, it works (even looks half decent too!).

[Tim]

OK, got the answers I need.
It looks like the majority  like to wire up pickups themselves but it's clear from the tech area that this can present problems so what I'm proposing to do after LGS is out of the way is to post a pictoral guide along with alot of the wiring schemes you guys have been trying to do.

[The amazing Phil]

That sounds like a pretty cool idea. 8)

[Skybone]

That sounds like an excellent idea to me too! ;)

Thanks Tim!

[TwilightOdyssey]

OK, got the answers I need.
It looks like the majority  like to wire up pickups themselves but it's clear from the tech area that this can present problems so what I'm proposing to do after LGS is out of the way is to post a pictoral guide along with alot of the wiring schemes you guys have been trying to do.

Amen!
Tho, I must admit, my problem was 95% stupidity and 5% ignorance! LOL