Cost of swapping out pickups?

L.R. Weizel · 28-01-2009 8:58pm #1

I bought a Tele copy from Guitar fetish and unfortunately it's fitted with "vintage" pickups - i.e. awesome bridge, terrible, muffled low gain neck. I'm thinking of going into Future sound and vision in Limerick, how much do you think they charge to swap out the pickup? Maybe there's somewhere that does it cheaper. I'll be providing my own pickup.

Zangetsu · 29-01-2009 9:33am

Is it an XV-820?

Last time I got pups switched out it was gonna cost 20 a pop, if you know anyone with a soldering iron it can be done for free...

L.R. Weizel · 29-01-2009 5:08pm

Yep. Nice guitar, but I didn't realise how cool "Vintage" was I guess.

L.R. Weizel · 10-03-2009 1:13pm

I ended up getting Paolo M/Paul who browses this forum, the bean can amp guy, to do it for me. I got a bus down to Carrigaline, he picked me up took me to his house and did it front of me, answering loads of questions. Charged me 15 euros which wasn't bad at all considering, let me have a go on his JCM800 too.

I'd definitely recommend this as there just aren't many guitar guys in or around Cork.

Red Sleeping Beauty · 10-03-2009 10:58pm

€15 to swap a pickup ?
Wish ye could get em done up here in the pale for that

Have ye got a review,pics, sound clips,vids or the guitar ? Them guitars look nice and the blurb he's got on the site sure is tempting. Reviews on Harmony Central are usually pretty good. Can I ask how much it was including deliver & customs charges ?

-=al=- · 10-03-2009 11:08pm

i paid 20 in musician inc, a handfull of times

Red Sleeping Beauty · 10-03-2009 11:09pm

I paid €40 last summer for a Les Paul - both humbuckers.

L.R. Weizel · 11-03-2009 1:27pm

Yeah I got a good deal so.

rcaz · 11-03-2009 4:12pm

You could get a soldering iron for a tenner and some solder for less than a fiver and be set for hundreds of pickup changes. It's a really easy job to do.

Red Sleeping Beauty · 11-03-2009 4:14pm

El Pr0n wrote: »

. It's a really easy job to do.

It really is not...

If your solder joints aren't perfect and clean you're going to get some nasty scratchy noises. Soldering is a skill. Some people are really good at it and lots are bad but yes, it's possible to do the "heat up the solder and touch it off ot two metal bits" part.

-=al=- · 11-03-2009 4:44pm

ah i tried a handfull of times, i fix my own cables and jacks now and again but pickups id rather let someone who knows what they're doing do it properly

But my les paul is wired strangly, my treble pickup volume is like a master volume for all the pickups, i dontk now how it was wired but i kinda like it better whatever way it is...

also on my rg my tone knob was wired backwards, so in the 0 position its 10 and in the 10 position its 0...

other than that i use to know the folks in musician inc they used to fix up jacks or wiring isues for free sometimes, handy enough

Cost of swapping out pickups?

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