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Topic: Question about ~1953 Fender Deluxe 6 trapezoid pickup |
Steve Ahola
From:
Concord, California
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Posted 23 Jun 2012 9:22 pm |
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Does anyone know here know the approximate DC resistance for these pickups? The 8 string traps are wound to around 10.8k so I would imagine that the smaller 6 string bobbins would be wound lower than that.
To make a long story even longer: I'm always complaining about breakfast cereal boxes having the same proportions whether there are 10 oz, 16 oz or 20 oz. When they are on sale I am always grabbing the wrong size and I have to go back to shelf to get the right size.
Well, I recently got a trap pickup on eBay for my Dual Pro and it looked like it was the right size so I just had the bobbin rewound. I just got it back and was starting to put it in my Dual Pro when it finally occurred to me that I had picked up the wrong box of Cheerios, er, wrong trap- the 6 string version, not the 8 string one. 
I'm going to have it rewound to the specs for a 6 string trap so I am checking around to see if anyone here has that information.
Thanks!
Steve Ahola
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Jim Newberry
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Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 24 Jun 2012 5:46 pm
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Hey Steve, I have a trap pickup D-6 of unknown date (refin, some new parts, no pencilled date). Without tearing it apart, the best I can give you is with a patch cord and volume pot on full. They read 8.03k and 8.08k. They don't look rewound, but I did have Jason Lollar remag the mags.
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Steve Ahola
From:
Concord, California
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Posted 24 Jun 2012 6:56 pm
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| Jim Newberry wrote: |
| Hey Steve, I have a trap pickup D-6 of unknown date (refin, some new parts, no pencilled date). Without tearing it apart, the best I can give you is with a patch cord and volume pot on full. They read 8.03k and 8.08k. They don't look rewound, but I did have Jason Lollar remag the mags. |
A million thanks! Measuring the ohms with a patch cord is good enough for rock'n'roll, er, Western Swing! (With a typical 250k or 500k volume pot set to 10 the difference is negligible- like 2 or 3%.)
Funny how things work out. I had thought that it was an 8 string pickup but I have a second Dual Pro body with an 8 string tuning pan missing one tuner and a six string fretboard. It sure seems like it was destined to be a 6 string, at least until I can restore it properly...
Steve Ahola
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www.blueguitar.org
Recordings on electric guitar:
http://www.box.net/blue-diamonds
http://www.box.net/the-culprits |
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