Single conductor to four conductor?
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tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: Single conductor to four conductor?
welcome to the forum
no, i'm guessing that converting 1 wire to 4 wire is not something you can do at home ... you'd have to completely disassemble the pickups coils, disassemble the current lead from the coils ... find all 4 ends of the coil wire ... bring them out to contact with the 4 conductors .. then reassemble the pickup ... and that would only work if the pickup was not potted ...
if you are really in love with THAT pickup, i suppose you could call the customshop and see if they'd convert it for you ... but i bet it would cost a bunch more than simply buying a new 4 wire '59
good luck
t4d
welcome to the forum
no, i'm guessing that converting 1 wire to 4 wire is not something you can do at home ... you'd have to completely disassemble the pickups coils, disassemble the current lead from the coils ... find all 4 ends of the coil wire ... bring them out to contact with the 4 conductors .. then reassemble the pickup ... and that would only work if the pickup was not potted ...
if you are really in love with THAT pickup, i suppose you could call the customshop and see if they'd convert it for you ... but i bet it would cost a bunch more than simply buying a new 4 wire '59
good luck
t4d
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: Single conductor to four conductor?
Hi Jeff; Welcome to the forum. It can be done. I've done it, but as T4D says, its a headache. I've got 35 years in electronics, a several thousand dollar soldering station, I drew diagrams, took notes, snapped pictures . . . and still got it backwards.
You could probably trade with someone on the Trading Post easier.
Hi Jeff; Welcome to the forum. It can be done. I've done it, but as T4D says, its a headache. I've got 35 years in electronics, a several thousand dollar soldering station, I drew diagrams, took notes, snapped pictures . . . and still got it backwards.
You could probably trade with someone on the Trading Post easier.
peter.lenaghan
New member
Re: Single conductor to four conductor?
the dude
i have just opened a seymour duncan sh1 59 2 wire humbucker and made it into a 4 wire humbucker it wasnt hard.all i used was an ordinary soldering iron and nothing else.i opened another 4 wire 59 humbucker to get the wires right. every thing works alright
peter
the dude
i have just opened a seymour duncan sh1 59 2 wire humbucker and made it into a 4 wire humbucker it wasnt hard.all i used was an ordinary soldering iron and nothing else.i opened another 4 wire 59 humbucker to get the wires right. every thing works alright
peter
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theodie
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Re: Single conductor to four conductor?
I have done a few of them and it can be a headache at times. When the pickup is opened up, things are very fragile in there and alot can possibly go wrong. I think you can send it back to SD to convert it for a small fee. That may be a good idea also.
I have done a few of them and it can be a headache at times. When the pickup is opened up, things are very fragile in there and alot can possibly go wrong. I think you can send it back to SD to convert it for a small fee. That may be a good idea also.
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