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I just got this humbucking pickup in the mail today - I'm planning on putting it on a Gibson L7C. It's a Heritage floating humbucker. Upon inspection, though, I noticed that this wire - circled in yellow on the pic - isn't attached to anything. It's just freely hanging there. I'm no expert on pickups, but I would have thought that this wire was supposed to be attached to the coil. I'm wondering if perhaps it became unattached - and if so, is it something that can be repaired on the cheap.
Can anyone confirm this for me? Is the pickup supposed to look like this. I do have a multi-meter buried deep in the recesses of my toolbox, but I have no idea how to use it or what any of the symbols on the meter mean. If anyone cares to talk me through it, I suppose I could test the pickup that way.
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05-01-2017 05:03 PM
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Hey I didn't notice that. If you want your money refunded, I'm happy to do so. I suspect it can be soldered, but I just wanted you to know I will absolutely refund your money if you want. Just let me know and it's done.
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Hey Lawson:
No worries. I'll wait and see if it's salvageable before we start talking refund. I also suspect that it's a quick solder job to fix. I'm taking it to my luthier tomorrow to see what he says.
Anyway, hopefully we can avoid the whole hassle of a return. Besides, I'm looking forward to getting the pickup installed.
-Travis
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Hard to tell from that picture. It's possible that it needs to be soldered somewhere, but not definite. It could be just an extra wire going to the jack. You only need two for a standard humbucker unless you want to split the coils. You need to find out where the other end is, and what it connects to, if anything. If the pickup works that way, I wouldn't worry about it, but I can't know that from the little information I have.
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I can tell you that if that's a Heritage #3 pickup, that it's a great sounding pup!
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How do I tell what model of pickup it is? I do know it's a Heritage humbucker. Lawson.... any insights?
Originally Posted by whiskey02
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The single piece of red tape denotes a #2 if I recall correctly. A Rambo design that many liked, though the #3 was a little hotter and was usually marked by two red dots or red tape spots. Originally Posted by Socraticaster
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Joe DeNisco seems to know a bit more than I do about the Heritage floaters.
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Let me first say I don't know a whole lot about pickups and I'm sure there are plenty of other folks here who can give you more specific advice, but with that said... I think the first thing you might want to do is determine whether the pickup is working with or without "fixing" the loose wire. A quick check might be to attach wires with alligator clips between the pickup cable and an input jack (connected to an amp) and test if the pickup works by very lightly tapping the poles. If it doesn't work, most likely the problem is related to the disconnected wire.
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T top bobbins cut to fit. How cool is that?
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v#2...has one piece of red tape
v#3 has 2 red tape pieces!!
heritage hi-tech!! haha
hard to tell whats going on from pic..but that could be coil tap wire that was just cut off...you have a length of lead wire coming out of pickup??
cheers
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That was what I was thinking too, but you said it in one sentence. haha Originally Posted by neatomic
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Difficult to see, but I would say that the end of the wound wire, may be welded at this point and goes down to the coil, hidden by the "thick" white cable.
Take your multimeter, put it on Ohm possition and check if there is continuity between the two poles of the pickup cable. If nothing happens (nothing is measured) the wire is not connected. If something between 7 - 12 kOhm is measured, your pickup is ok.Last edited by dispersus; 05-02-2017 at 03:01 PM.
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I saw my repair guy today, and he fixed it while I waited. Two wires had come unsoldered - the pickup lead wasn't connected to the coil. Problem solved.
Thanks of the input and advice everyone.
-Travis
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Good to hear
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Socraticaster, did your repair man install the pickup?
I am dying to hear what you think of the pickup.
Joe D
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I haven't put it in yet. I still have to get a repro pickguard - I'm not cutting up the original - and decide whether I want a regular end-pin jack or one of the Tapastring units.
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It was literally a 20 second repair job. He just touched the two wires together and lightly kissed them with the soldering iron. Then a quick test with the multi-meter (reading of 7.2 ohms), and he pronounced it good as new. Originally Posted by dispersus
Good to hear
He said that he sees that sort of thing all the time with used pickups. Apparently it's very easy to do - those wires are delicate. So it could very easily have been my fault - maybe I was too excited and not careful enough when I opened the box the mailman delivered the pickup in.
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I put an endpin jack in my GJS. I did it myself. Even though it felt surreal to be reaming the end of a Johnny, i couldn't be happier. Originally Posted by Socraticaster
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My 1937 D'Angelico Style A has the Tapastring endpin setup. I am glad that the last owner chose that instead of the reamer.
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I just looked up the Tapastring endpin jack. That's a neat gadget. I may have to get that for another project. Originally Posted by Stringswinger
My GJS is far from pristine. I still feel okay about the reamer.
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Well, I've decided to go in a different direction with my L-7C - I'm having a McCarty style pickguard made to fit a custom-wound Lindy Fralin McCarty pickup. I'll have thumbwheel pots and an end-pin jack. Hopefully it will be a pretty cool set up. But, I won't be needing the Heritage H2 humbucker. I'm going to be posting it on the For Sale forum and on Reverb for what I paid: $50. I thought I'd give you guys first dibs. There are more pics of the pickup on page 2 of this thread: Traded my es-175 for a Gibson L7C
-Travis
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