What's on Your Workbench?

[Don O]

Should only take a few minutes as long as a humbucker spring doesn’t go flying across the room.

Make yourself one of these. A couple of pieces of moulding and a few screws.

 

[jtcnj]

Funny this came up as just this past weekend I swapped pickups in the cheapy Donner H-H Tele I just got.
I had an unusually difficult time getting the screws started / wrestling the springs.
This was in a pick guard though, not mounting rings.

 

[syscokid]

Make yourself one of these. A couple of pieces of moulding and a few screws.

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How do you use something like that?

 

[DirtySteve]

Make yourself one of these. A couple of pieces of moulding and a few screws.

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That's pretty cool, but I've mounted so many pickups in my time I've got it down pat.

 

[DirtySteve]

Funny this came up as just this past weekend I swapped pickups in the cheapy Donner H-H Tele I just got.
I had an unusually difficult time getting the screws started / wrestling the springs.
This was in a pick guard though, not mounting rings.

Yeah, mounting in a pickguard can be a real PITA!

 

[syscokid]

I've stained bleached bone nuts with tea to darken them. I might try that next.

I once stained a very white Tusq nut with coffee. Fricking turned brown…

 

[DirtySteve]

I once stained a very white Tusq nut with coffee. Fricking turned brown…

That's the main reason I'm hesitant to try it. Even tea gets more of a brown color than cream.

 

[67plexi]

To age plastic or wood parts use Potassium Permanganate

 

[DirtySteve]

I've pretty much decided against messing with the pickups. If it doesn't work as planned it may end up making it worse than it already is. I think I'm just going to sell them and buy a new double black set unless Wolfe can guaranty he can do actual cream coils for me after I explain my situation to him.

 

[syscokid]

To age plastic or wood parts use Potassium Permanganate

Never heard of this stuff, and had to research it. And I must say: DANG! That’s some gnarly stuff!!

I've pretty much decided against messing with the pickups. If it doesn't work as planned it may end up making it worse than it already is. I think I'm just going to sell them and buy a new double black set unless Wolfe can guaranty he can do actual cream coils for me after I explain my situation to him.

That’s a good call. But I’m still kind of baffled that the Wolfetone cream colored bobbins turned out too white for you. The Wolfetone website pics of the cream bobbins are very creamy.

On a side note, I like my Wolfetone pups a lot. Got a pair of their P90’s, Mean and Meaner. And two pairs of their humbuckers. Both pairs are the Dr Vintage and the Marshallhead… Good stuff!

 

[Don O]

How do you use something like that?

The pickup is resting on the moulding pieces so you don’t have to hold it steady. You can then use one hand to hold the spring and the other to start the screw threading with your palm on top of the pup.

 

[DirtySteve]

I literally just swapped a pickup in 10 minutes. Gonna try the Fenris in my Traditional to be sure I like it in there before I bother Wolfe.

 

[DirtySteve]

Never heard of this stuff, and had to research it. And I must say: DANG! That’s some gnarly stuff!!


That’s a good call. But I’m still kind of baffled that the Wolfetone cream colored bobbins turned out too white for you. The Wolfetone website pics of the cream bobbins are very creamy.

On a side note, I like my Wolfetone pups a lot. Got a pair of their P90’s, Mean and Meaner. And two pairs of their humbuckers. Both pairs are the Dr Vintage and the Marshallhead… Good stuff!

I have a Meaner P90, killer pickup, but I like the SD custom P90 a little better.

 

[SG John]

To age plastic or wood parts use Potassium Permanganate

Just don’t mix it with glycerin or sulfuric acid. For a fun trick, drop one piece in someone’s coffee. Preferably black, or they might notice.

 

[DirtySteve]

Ok so I went ahead and put the bridge pickup in my Traditional to be sure I like it in this guitar as much as I like it in my Tribute. First off, I'm not sure if I ever said, it's a Wolfetone Fenris, just like the one I put in my Tribute. While I love it in my Tribute it sounded kind of muffled in here by comparison. So I swapped out the A2 magnet Wolfe sent me to turn it into a Timber Wolf and wow does it sound good now!

The cream color doesn't look so "off" in photos, but it real life it has sort of a green hue to it compared with all the other cream parts around it. Now that I know I like it in here I'm ready to talk to Wolfe about it. Or maybe I'll just leave it like it is, I don't know.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

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?

Yeah I don't think it matters at all. I did that with one and I can't hear any difference whatsoever.

 

[DirtySteve]

Or...as someone suggested earlier, I could just switch to black mounting rings. Not sure about the look, what do y'all think?

 

[DirtySteve]

...but I think I'd rather have double black pickups if I did that, and probably black knobs too.

 

[DirtySteve]

I now see that I should have started my own thread. I didn't know this was going to be such a discussion when I made my first post. Sorry.

 

[fitz]

Or...as someone suggested earlier, I could just switch to black mounting rings. Not sure about the look, what do y'all think?

IMO - black rings don't go with the body binding.
I'd keep the cream rings - even with double black bobbins.
I like the amber knobs, perhaps reflectors?