Open Heart Surgery On A Seymour Duncan Pickup

Doctor J

I did a small repair job on an old Seymour Duncan Jazz Humbucker I had which had sustained some damage to the baseplate. I thought it might be of interest to show the innards of a pickup.

So here is the pickup with the cloth tape removed and baseplate detached from the bobbins. The pickup earth wire is soldered to the baseplate. The magnet is attached to the bottom of the bobbins on the right.




Here is the damaged baseplate. I screwed up the polepieces to make sure I didn't have to put any unnecessary stress on the wires or coil when taking the pickup off the baseplate.




Here is the new baseplate. You can see how the earth wire is soldered on and the hole where the main wire is threaded through.




And after carefully putting everything back together and replacing the cloth tape, here is the repaired pickup.

Ancient1

Great work, Doc, impressive documentation!

Want a job?

Doctor J

Yes. Please.

Actually, I'm building up to a big job on a guitar here. I'll kep the details under my hat for now but when it's done I'm hoping it will at least not have sucked

Ancient1

You're hired!

Keep taking the pics if you can be bothered - it'll come in handy when my frankenstein starts coming along.

And you could sticky and lock the final thread then for future reference!

Doctor J

Heh heh heh Fey gets very snotty when I sticky stuff he doesn't know about...



... I'll do it

feylya

feylya smash!