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Topic: Dang...Fender D8 has a bad pickup... |
Michael Lester
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2013 3:42 pm |
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Took the Fender I posted about earlier to my Tech because the back neck wasn't working...the neck switch was blue with corrosion and 'battery dust' (looks like the stuff from a bad car battery)...
Got everything working - and then discovered that the right hand pickup on the back neck is dead.
Anyone have one for sale?...have experience with a re-winder? or replacement source?
We hot-wired the remaining pickup to insure that it works - and it does...
(Like going to Doc for a flu shot and learning that you also have a variation of incurable halitosis that you never knew you had.)
Thanks for your help...
Michael
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Tom Snook
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2013 6:11 pm
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I have a set oof Duncan Antiquity StringMaster PUs.
Wil PM you after Big Band Night on X Factor.
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Dale R Stiles
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Bradenton, FL
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Posted 27 Nov 2013 11:11 pm
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Sorry to hear that Michael.
I've heard good things about the Antiquity replacement pickups, but make sure you replace with the right one. They come in a neck and bridge and they're wound and polarized different. As Stephen was explaining, those are wound and paired together to give you a humbucker.
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Tom Snook
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2013 4:21 am
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No worries,the bridge pu has black and white wires and the neck has black and yellow wires.
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Bob Gibler
From:
Kansas, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2013 1:39 pm Pickup repare or replace
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Michael, I don't know what you have decided to do about the Pickup you are having trouble with. But If you want to use the original PU. Try having it rewound by someone who knows exactly what to do in a timely manor. I know that there are many guy's out there doing this But, My suggestion is Curtis Novak.
He does a fabulous job. and you will be able to reuse your original PU. It can be wound with the same Diameter of motor lead wire it originally had, or you can have it TWEAKED...His Web Address is
http://curtisnovak.com/index.shtml  |
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Michael Lester
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2013 2:42 pm Fender D8 Pickups
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Thanks everyone...I'm going to buy and install the set that Tom Snook has...I'll hold on to the originals...
Michael |
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Tom Snook
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2013 4:14 pm
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That sounds like a plan,PM me your info and we can make it happen.
Happy Holidays
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 1 Dec 2013 10:38 pm
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A few years back I was facing the same sitution on my T-3 Custom Fender...two p/u's worked, the third was stone-dead.
I'm not certain if Jason Lollar is still
building or repairing dead Fender p/u's. Jason did mine ... great job.
You might want contact him to see if he is still doing this kind of work ?
Strange thing about Fender p/u's...they go dead with little or no warning. Yet I have a number of steels which are many years older than my 1966 Fender T-3 Custom and have never experienced this dead p/u problem from any of them ! |
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Dave Bader
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2013 1:13 am
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| Be aware! I have had to alter the flatware on the Lollar and Duncan replacement pickups in order to get them to fit the existing pickup cover. Neither manufacturer offeres a cover so you may have to do this yourself. |
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Michael Lester
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2013 12:28 pm Fender Stringmaster Pickups Replaced
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...a bit of follow-up...replaced both original pickups on the rear neck today with Seymour Duncan Antiquity... they fit perfectly. Plastic covers slid on without any special re-working...
Work like they're supposed to and sound fine...
$125 for both through Guitar Center...
Michael |
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