Magnet-Swapping the Dimebucker?

Ah, I see. I didn't know the housing is fixed. Well that certainly maintains the Dimebucker's original recipe.
 
With the type of equipment you would need to even open it, let alone close it again, you would be better off hitting up the custom shop.
 
orpheo said:
The housing is not the issue. The fact that it's epoxy'd shut is.
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Wow! I did not know that. I've actually played one on a Dean Guitar and have played the Bill/Becky Lawrence L500's but never actually tried to look inside them.
 
The Gibson Tony Iommi pickups were epoxied like that as well, was that for the same reason? It also has an unusual magnet setup, but I wondered why the epoxy....
 
Rex_Rocker said:
Yeah, I thin the reasoning is they epoxy it together so that they don't have a metal baseplate jacking up the inductance. Right?
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In my understanding, the absence of a baseplate was thought by Bill Lawrence as a mean to avoid Foucault currents (eddy currents), which tend to lessen the inductance rather than to jack it up. And I see epoxy as a "hardcore" version of wax potting more than like assembling glue...:smokin: YMMV.
 
I don't know about the Dimebucker construction other than what I know about Bill Lawrence L500's. I did see on this forum where someone just pried apart the coils and cover with a flathead. It wasn't epoxied together. I just recieved an L500L in the mail day Wednesday and it was the same way. If you unscrew the bottom two screws the cover and coils can be pried apart. They are only wax potted. My L500L has an A5.
 
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