Re: Pickup installations
- From: Squier <squier@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:48:03 -0400
VampX <vampx66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 15, 6:24 am, Squier <squ...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article VampX <va...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok,
If I do this myself, how easy can it be? Or not? I have no soldering
experience but have been doing some research on yoootooob. Basically
the idea I get is that you heat the metal and then apply the solder by
dotting it.
On the other hand, is anyone willing to whack these things in for me?
Im tired of the '69s and want to stick the EJ's back in.
Vamp - it's easy! Little 30 watt pencil iron and some
thin rosin core solder. Little phillips screwdriver for
the pickguard screws and the pickup install/height screws.
Get yourself a little needle nose so you don't have to
hold on to the pickup wires. Let the little needle nose
pliers be your hand while you solder. You might also need
a little razor blade to strip off the ends of the wire (plastic
or cloth) to expose the bare wire strands to solder in there.
But basically - monkey see - monkey do -- when you take off the
pickguard - slide it out from under the neck overhang -
then slowly flip it backwards. Just look at where everything
goes and then unsolder the pickups at the switch - and sometimes
if the wires are stubborn where the ground wires were soldered
to the back of the volume pot - then just clip them off close to
where they connected. You can solder back on the new pup ground
wires to the blob of solder on the back of the volume pot. No prob.
The thing is that (assuming your Strat bodies are not the 'swimming
pool' route) you want to get your pickup wires nicely wrapped up
and in a straight line following the body routing and then take a nice
turn into the control cavity. This way when you slide back on the
pickguard everything slips into place and sits into the body cavity correctly.
It's easy to smash down the pickguard and crimp or get a wire hung up
between the body and the pickguard and then at some point in time
that wire will short or break.
Hey if I can wire up pickguards - anyone can do it too.
And while the soldering iron is heated up -- take off your
back trem plate and make sure the ground wire going to that
trem plate (you'll see it) is firmly attached there above
where the springs are attached. A lot of time that works loose
and the wires are not well soldered or connected. Heat that
area up and melt some solder back over the ground wire there.
Cool ta. Will check it all out.
It's the EJ strat so the routes are shallower than "normal". I just
feel like I want to actually give the EJ pups a fair go as I never
really did before. I think my ears have much more discerning abilities
these days and besides, I'm looking for something that cuts through
the mix at solo time. The 69's are good but just a tad gainy for my
liking but that is something I have only been discovering of late.
Because they are gainy, the signal tends to compress a fair bit when I
kick in the Big Muff or any other type of distortion. I know this
because when I actually turn the volume down on the guitar and kick in
the Muff, I get a decent solo tone. Too much and it's totally
saturated and I get a rather severe volume drop which kinda seems a
moot point in a solo.
I agree about the fuzz stuff. The best sounds I get from
various fuzz pedals always comes from the low wind single coils.
The higher the output (higher wound up singles or humbuckers) then
the fuzz really doesn't get as good sounds (to my ears).
The best is some set of low wound singles in the Strat (around 5.8k or so).
Wow - the fuzz rules with these! Super thick and yet chewy crunchy too.
I guess I could just turn the thing down all the time but my playing
style always ends up increasing the volume. Must be the way my
fingertips flick the knob or something. Anywho, I'd just like to give
the EJ pups a shot as everyone seems to rave about them and like I
said, I don't really think I gave them a fair go. Just looking at
them, they do seem a lot beefier in construction than other Fender
pickups. It will also be a good time to try and set the guitar up
properly as I think I have futzed with that as well. I hate it when I
tinker with things and end up making it worse so I'll set it up
according to Fender specs then see how that works for my hands.
But anyway, I'm rabitting on a bit.....
ah rabbit on.. if you really want the good fuzz then
the lower wind single coils are the way to go. (imho).
.
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