Strat pup repair

[El Supremo]

Re: Strat pup repair

Since I am totally awesome.

Pay for shipping and i'll send you my strat pickups.

They will never get used. Stock pickups from a Candy Cola 2006 American Fender standard

Totally cool offer grumptruck! But I only need one pickup and already have 2 spare stock pickups and a DM Heavy blues. So somebody else might make better use of 'em than I would.
Probably wil go Duncan for the bridge very soon anyway as I'm digging the youtube clips of the SSL-5 in the bridge.

Thanks a lot for the offer!

 

[El Supremo]

Re: Strat pup repair

is this the dead pup? sounds like someone might have tampered with that bridge pup. did you purchase it new?

Yes, brand new, fresh out of the box.
This kind of thing doesn't seem to be a freak occurance though. Next time, I'll get the multimeter and magnifying glasses out before the soldering iron.

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: Strat pup repair

Damn dude, that sucks. For future reference, don't take the bottom off of a single coil, they don't have baseplates like a humbucker, the bottom is an integral part of the coil and isn't intended to come off. Sounds like you found that out.

I don't really care how fender used to make them, the design is flawed and needs to be updated. A small lead for each end then taping the coil like on a humbucker isn't that much of a departure and would ensure this wouldn't happen anymore.

 

[El Supremo]

Re: Strat pup repair

Well, I received a mail back from Fender (rather quick actually). They said it's more likely that the pickups were likely returned/repackaged. Which, ofcourse, could also be very well the case.
Still, I agree with Izzo that a little more protection would be more than welcome.

Anyhow, I installed a '69 in the bridge and a funny Fender ceramic sc (no replacement cover fits this one somehow) in the neck to find out what I'll be missing.
As kind of expected (as there's not much love for fender SC's in the bridge), the '69 is too weak in the bridge. The neck and middle totally overpower it both clean and with some overdrive.

The ceramic in the bridge however... matched up perfectly both tone and volume wise with '69 in the middle and neck. Quite unexpected as it's 5.2K and was always in the neck of this formerly HSS strat. A more powerful ceramic magnet must have something to do with it.
It also sounded it lot strattier than the Heavy Blues (very warm, lots of mids)

69's are sold as a set as far as I've seen, so I would have had the bridge pu collecting dust anyway. So no problems thankfully. Still looking at the SSL-5 or a QP for the bridge though. :scratchch and a chrome pickguard :bling: