Tune-O-Matic
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I thought I would share this little tip I discovered last night. So I was doing some mag swaps recently on a few older zebra Duncan trembuckers and the adhesive for the black fabric tape that surrounds the pickup was the gooiest black tar like mess i have ever seen on a pickup. The adhesive ended up getting on my fingers and hands which in turn got on top of the pickup bobbins as I was swapping the mags. It was especially noticeable on the cream bobbins.
I first tried to use some rubbing alcohol on both my hands and the pickups but it really didn't do a too much and using soap on my hands still left a bunch of black slightly less gooey adhesive on my hands.
The miracle cure was simply vegetable oil from the kitchen cabinet. I poured a small amount on a paper towel and rubbed my hands and all the black tar crap easily wiped away. For the pickups, I poured a small amount of oil into a bowl and used a Q-Tip/ear swap with just a tiny amount of oil on it and rubbed off all the black adhesive from the top of the bobbins and then cleaned off all of the oil with a paper towel. It completely worked like a charm and left the pickups with a nice bit of gloss.
I first tried to use some rubbing alcohol on both my hands and the pickups but it really didn't do a too much and using soap on my hands still left a bunch of black slightly less gooey adhesive on my hands.
The miracle cure was simply vegetable oil from the kitchen cabinet. I poured a small amount on a paper towel and rubbed my hands and all the black tar crap easily wiped away. For the pickups, I poured a small amount of oil into a bowl and used a Q-Tip/ear swap with just a tiny amount of oil on it and rubbed off all the black adhesive from the top of the bobbins and then cleaned off all of the oil with a paper towel. It completely worked like a charm and left the pickups with a nice bit of gloss.
