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Seymour Duncan Pickup orientation dilemma. I could be more frustrated perhaps if I get back on the 5 freeway in the heavy snow@!@!
Pictures are for :poo:.
So, here's the wind up.
59 was in the bridge, moving it to the neck to drop the SH4 in the bridge of the Firefly "V"
It's barely noon. I only had half a beer but I need a case.
Slug screw orientation please!
 
Typically the adjustment screws face away from each other: so the bridge faces the bridge and the neck faces the neck. But, what this appears to be is you have a Seymour neck pickup inside the bridge selection as shown in the pic below

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You normally face the poles the furthest away to have the most adjustment in their response but, that is honestly minor at best and I have a guitar with the pickups facing each other rather than away and you can't tell the difference.


But here's where I'm confused: typically SH4 is a bridge only pickup. It's often paired with a SH2 jazz in the neck or sometimes a 59. Both of those pickups have the screws facing the neck and letting at the bottom. The SH4 JB is screws facing bridge and lettering on the bottom along with the screws.

You sure this is a SH4?
 
gball said:
You got you a neck pickup there it seems
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It has a sticker on the back that says it's a SH4 supposed to be a bridge. I did catch a thread on there forum saying they possibly wired a few backwards.
I guess I need to check resistance and try to determine what that pickup is. Quite frustrating but used stuff can be anything but what it was said to be.
Plus side is back when I bought it was cheap.
 
Clockworkmike said:
Typically the adjustment screws face away from each other: so the bridge faces the bridge and the neck faces the neck. But, what this appears to be is you have a Seymour neck pickup inside the bridge selection as shown in the pic below

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You normally face the poles the furthest away to have the most adjustment in their response but, that is honestly minor at best and I have a guitar with the pickups facing each other rather than away and you can't tell the difference.


But here's where I'm confused: typically SH4 is a bridge only pickup. It's often paired with a SH2 jazz in the neck or sometimes a 59. Both of those pickups have the screws facing the neck and letting at the bottom. The SH4 JB is screws facing bridge and lettering on the bottom along with the screws.

You sure this is a SH4?
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No , not sure what it is. I was told it was when I bought it years ago. Maybe that's why I did 't like it.
The only thing I have heard is if the place them wrong you will be out of phase like Peter Greens legendary 1959 les paul when both pickups are switched on (middle)
 
ibmorjamn said:
It has a sticker on the back that says it's a SH4 supposed to be a bridge. I did catch a thread on there forum saying they possibly wired a few backwards.
I guess I need to check resistance and try to determine what that pickup is. Quite frustrating but used stuff can be anything but what it was said to be.
Plus side is back when I bought it was cheap.
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Probably just the bobbin backwards then. Personally I would throw a cover on it, install it correctly and call it a day.
 
gball said:
Probably just the bobbin backwards then. Personally I would throw a cover on it, install it correctly and call it a day.
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I like that idea and that would solve the looks problem and the phase problem I assume.
I would have to get a cover for it in the future. For now. damn the torpedoes!
 
If you have a multimeter nearby? Save yourself a lot of time and further headaches: put it on ohms, twist the red and white wires together and read across the black and green wires with each meter lead. About 16.6k ohms for a SH4 and 7.5k for SH2 is what you should see give or take very minimal differences ( it's not always perfect due to either age or a few accidental plus or minus windings)
 
Clockworkmike said:
If you have a multimeter nearby? Save yourself a lot of time and further headaches: put it on ohms, twist the red and white wires together and read across the black and green wires with each meter lead. About 16.6k ohms for a SH4 and 7.5k for SH2 is what you should see give or take very minimal differences ( it's not always perfect due to either age or a few accidental plus or minus windings)
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I think my meter is in the manageire of parts, albums, cd's and guitar stuff accumulated on and around the desk.
 
Next up on the block, I pulled the Dean V strings,covers off and pickups still hanging. This guitar has been a go to for many years but I want to change it up.
I think I will go with the Dimarzio 36th anniversary's double cream I have on hand. The 36th neck is in the LP special at the moment. Never install the bridge because I have the custom wound Seymour I named "MS" wound by "MJ" in 2019.
 
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