Seymour Duncan wants $255 for shipping to replace two "Dead on Arrival" Antiquity II Surfer Strat Pickups.

[TW144hz]

There's no actual reason to bash the OP or his/her tech for breaking the pickups, neither in transit nor in installation. Nobody can know. Let's leave the attempted repair aside.

SD is cool for doing a RMA to a country that isn't the original sales country at all. The shipping price mistake needs looking at.

Those are the only facts available.

Dude you’re really making comment in sense. Sometimes I feel betrayed to have these but your comment makes me go on with rational fact.

 

[switchman]

There's no actual reason to bash the OP or his/her tech for breaking the pickups, neither in transit nor in installation. Nobody can know. Let's leave the attempted repair aside.

SD is cool for doing a RMA to a country that isn't the original sales country at all. The shipping price mistake needs looking at.

Those are the only facts available.

It is cool Duncan always goes the extra mile, but I have to disagree at least in part.

I work in the field and its a fact that's a hack repair attempt which gives me every reason to bash it.

I would like the OP and everyone else to know that they should never accept that quality of repair work, insist it be fixed free of charge (although it may be moot in this case if the coil is dead), or look for another tech if possible to protect their money.

People need to know guitar work isn't like other trades where some organization of experts issues certifications and you cant get a job without them. Any one can call themself a luthier regardless of their skill and knowledge or lack thereof. You have to be careful.

 

[Mincer]

Maybe they came in contact with a really strong magnetic field?

 

[TW144hz]

Hello friends, thank you for your comments and contributions. Let’s put emotions aside and discuss this objectively. Here is the situation: When I first installed the pickups in the guitar, there was no sound. We redid the soldering 3-4 times thinking it might be a cold solder joint, but there was still no sound. This time, I took them to the two best-known luthiers in my city in order to get extra opinions, other than my own usual luthier, to get them working. The first one suggested it might be due to the potentiometer, but if that were the case, there would be no sound from the Antiquity II Humbucker (bridge position) either; so the issue wasn't the pot. The second luthier worked on the base plate (the photo where you didn't like the craftsmanship) thinking there might be a contact issue at the start and end points, but the multimeter was reading O.L. anyway—I already shared this in the first photos. If the photo isn't enough evidence for you, I’ve also shared a Google Drive link with a video showing that no sound comes from the pickups and the live multimeter reading; you can check it out. Every action taken by the luthier you are criticizing was an attempt to save a dead pickup. There is no such thing here as praising or blaming Seymour Duncan; we are just talking about the facts as they are.

 

[Securb]

Maybe they came in contact with a really strong magnetic field?

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe one of the "luthiers" used a soldering gun instead of an iron.

 

[ehdwuld]

You have to scrape the enamel off the wire to test the ohms

Your meter wont read through the enamel to the wire

I feel like Noone is listening

Your tech should know this

 

[jeremy]

Maybe they came in contact with a really strong magnetic field?

that would not effect the coil or the resistance readings.