Recent content by DieterPinklage

Re: Can anyone help me repair a disconnected coil on an Ibanez V1 Neck Humbucker? I am back with PICS. I see a very thin bare copper wire coming from the the slug pole coil which connects to the black wire you can see in pic 1. Then in the other pic you can see a RED WIRE. See how the bottom...

I will post high resolution close up pictures through a magnifying glass later to help explain this, but I sure could use some help from the wizards on this forum. I bought a used guitar recently and the neck pickup (Ibanez V1) appears to have a disconnected coil? It has RED, WHITE, and BARE...

Re: MAGNET replacement - easiest way using no special tools I flipped the magnet on one of the pickups that was weird and now I have the screw bobbin sucking in the magnet and the slug bobbin repels, so it's right now! The tester magnet I am using is a ceramic bar mag and what I am doing is...

AHOY. I'm looking for a fool proof way to properly swap a magnet into a previously unmolested pickup without using any tools other than the magnets themselves and keeping the same polarity that the "factory" pickup had. I've opened 3 newer SD pickups and all 3 have had a mark on the magnet at...