01-22-2015, 06:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-22-2015, 06:25 AM by GoldenVulture.)
I got myseelf an eighty dollar start copy a while back. Plays well and is in tune. The pups though are crap.
They're single coils with inductors and a bar magnet on the bottom.
The coils are a little lean.[ I've already removed the inductors , magnet and outside tape. ]
The problem here is replacing them with something decent would cost almost as much as the guitar or more and that doesn't seem good sense.
Next I dug out an Ephi HB coil that I'd fitted with pole magnets. The screw holes for affixing it to a base plate lined up with holes on the single coil bobbin.
I hacksawed about two thirds of SC bobbin off and affixed the Ephi coil to the bobbin base. I then added a few new wires and installed it. It works fine and so much better than the crap pup. The crap pups are thin and have poor volume. No surprise looking at the half coil on the bobbin.
Yes the Ephi bobbin is bent. Fucked if I know how that happened.
They're single coils with inductors and a bar magnet on the bottom.
The coils are a little lean.[ I've already removed the inductors , magnet and outside tape. ]
The problem here is replacing them with something decent would cost almost as much as the guitar or more and that doesn't seem good sense.
Next I dug out an Ephi HB coil that I'd fitted with pole magnets. The screw holes for affixing it to a base plate lined up with holes on the single coil bobbin.
I hacksawed about two thirds of SC bobbin off and affixed the Ephi coil to the bobbin base. I then added a few new wires and installed it. It works fine and so much better than the crap pup. The crap pups are thin and have poor volume. No surprise looking at the half coil on the bobbin.
Yes the Ephi bobbin is bent. Fucked if I know how that happened.