Wax potting pickups

[rocksoldier]

How much effect would it have on my guitars, they are feedbacking like hell and i really need to get rid of the terrible feedback.
I use dimarzio super distortions in the bridge on both my guitars.
Is it worth it or should i just get something with a little less output, like a air zone or jb?
I´m planning to buy a 5150 head anyway soon, so i guess i dont really need the output of the super distortions anyway, but the thing is that i really dig the sound of them, maybe i would be better of keeping the pickups waxing them and buy a marshall instead of the peavey.
I play 80´s hard rock/metal.
What do you think?

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Wax potting pickups

I think done properly the squeeling should be cured 100%.

I use a Mr. Coffee glass pot, a hot plate, and Gulf brand wax like Grandma used to use for canning and preserving.

Heat up the wax until it's liquid and then submerge the pickup until no more air bubbles trickle out of it. Might take 5 or 10 minutes.

Suspend the pickup so the pickup isn't sitting against the hot bottem of the pot! You can usually just loop one end of the cable around the edge of the Mr. Coffee pot or something like that. EVH has mentioned melting Dimarzio pickups when wax potting them...not good!

I have to say tho that I rarely have trouble with squeeling from uncovered humbucking pickups...only from pickups with unpotted nickel covers, and even then only rarely.

Lew

 

[dr.barlo]

Re: Wax potting pickups

http://www.stewmac.com/tradesecrets/electronics/ts26fralin/ts26fralin.html

You might wanna look into this as well. It is about some fine points about Fralin's wax potting operation.

B

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: Wax potting pickups

You'll want to peep this before you go all-out:

http://www.guitarnuts.com/technical/electrical/index.php

I did this about a month ago and got tremendous results. It also takes into account a safer method of keeping the wax at a constant temperature.

rocksoldier: how old are those pickups? Potting the pickup is usually the fix for an older pickup in which the wire has stretched. Your rig sounds pretty modern there and most recent pickups tend to not have that sort of problem.