Help extending a pickups leads

Dayeeeve

Dayeeeve

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Hello all,

I recently decided to re install an old Sh2 Jazz pickup into a guitar of mine however after years of it being swapped in and out of guitars the wires have gotten a little too short! I know it is possible to extend them but I wanted some advice from anyone that had done this before.
Is there a specific wire type I should use for the extension?
 
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Re: Help extending a pickups leads

I don't think it's necessary to replace it altogether. It would be a lot more work, not make any different in tone, and would risk breaking something in the process. I'd just solder a length of hookup wire between the pickup's remaining wire and wherever it's supposed to connect to, and close off the solder joint with heat shrink tubing. You put a little piece of the tubing around the solder joint and then use a cigarette lighter to get it hot and shrunken around the solder joint. It's much better than using electrical tape.
 
Re: Help extending a pickups leads

Becareful just extening them though. The heat shrink can get fat and make it so you cant pull the wires through the channels in the bodies... If its 4 conductor at minimum stagger the splices, you dont want a big knot of heat shrink you cant pull through.

Nothing special in the way of wire needed.
 
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