GrooVey
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That’s a great look!
What's on Your Workbench?
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DirtySteve
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So I've been praising my PlanetTone pickups for a while now, but today I went to adjust the pole pieces to raise them up a bit and one of them fell right thru completely stripped out. This is the second time I've had this happen with Planet tone pickups. the first time he sent me some new screws with bigger threads and all was good, but now it's happened again with a different pickup. I've never had that happen with any other pickups, only Planet Tone and this time it pissed me off!
So anyway, I've been swapping bridge pickups all day today, the winner by a long shot is a WolfeTone Fenris. I completely forgot I still had that pickup until I found it in the bottom of a box today. Man, I forgot how good those Wolfetone pickups are and this guitar loves the Fenris. I also did the magnet swap to A5 (Wolfe sent the A5 mag with the pickup to try it) to turn it into a Timber wolf, which was also good, but not as good as the A2 Fenris.
My Fenris is double black so I guess the zebras aren't staying after all.
DirtySteve
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Well, since no one else is using this thread right now I'm going to yak a little more to say... I am so impressed with the Wolfetone, it has completely made this guitar my best sounding one. My Traditional had that spot, but it doesn't anymore. And guess what, I was looking thru my pickup stash today and found another one along with a Marshallhead MKII neck pickup...zebras!
But, now I remember why I didn't use them, they're zebras, not reverse zebras with the screw coil being the cream coil. I didn't know at the time which was which and ordered the wrong ones, more than that, the cream coils on these are very light cream color and I didn't like the way they looked when I put them in my guitar. I remember they looked almost white compared to the mounting rings.
They might look ok in black mounting rings, but does anybody know if there's a way to darken the cream coil some on these? Here's a pic of them next to a normal cream so maybe you can see what I mean, maybe not, hard to see in a pic.
But, now I remember why I didn't use them, they're zebras, not reverse zebras with the screw coil being the cream coil. I didn't know at the time which was which and ordered the wrong ones, more than that, the cream coils on these are very light cream color and I didn't like the way they looked when I put them in my guitar. I remember they looked almost white compared to the mounting rings.
They might look ok in black mounting rings, but does anybody know if there's a way to darken the cream coil some on these? Here's a pic of them next to a normal cream so maybe you can see what I mean, maybe not, hard to see in a pic.
If the plastic bit comes off, soaking them in tea for 24 hours maybe ?Well, since no one else is using this thread right now I'm going to yak a little more to say... I am so impressed with the Wolfetone, it has completely made this guitar my best sounding one. My Traditional had that spot, but it doesn't anymore. And guess what, I was looking thru my pickup stash today and found another one along with a Marshallhead MKII neck pickup...zebras!
But, now I remember why I didn't use them, they're zebras, not reverse zebras with the screw coil being the cream coil. I didn't know at the time which was which and ordered the wrong ones, more than that, the cream coils on these are very light cream color and I didn't like the way they looked when I put them in my guitar. I remember they looked almost white compared to the mounting rings.
They might look ok in black mounting rings, but does anybody know if there's a way to darken the cream coil some on these? Here's a pic of them next to a normal cream so maybe you can see what I mean, maybe not, hard to see in a pic.
DirtySteve
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That would be awesome. The forecast says full sun tomorrow, I'll give it a try.
syscokid
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DirtySteve
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Oh, I've already thought of that, lol. I have flipped a neck pickup before, but never a bridge pickup. I swear, I was thinking about that earlier, I might have to try it just to see.
ibmorjamn
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I know what people say about the screw coil correct orientation but Dimarzio followers say it means nothing at least I read it somewhere but hello if the internet knows?
GrooVey
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Should only take a few minutes as long as a humbucker spring doesn’t go flying across the room.
DirtySteve
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Well, I left them out in the sun all day today. It did nothing.
I’ve seen ultra violet light used to whiten(bleach out) old plastics. RVA was doing that to old pickguards, and got some positive results.
I have no experience with this “trying to age” stuff, but I would wipe on some coffee (cold, black and no sugar please), and see what came of it.
Through my work, in optics, I have easy access to plastic dyes…I honestly do not know if they would penetrate the bobbin material though…now I’m kinda curious.
DirtySteve
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I've stained bleached bone nuts with tea to darken them. I might try that next.