Grey Strat Flatwork Question

[chevalij]

So obviously the Big Dippers must be light grey flatwork with a nice dark PE?

[Possum]

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Yes but if you have a black top and a grey bottom, what does that mean? I will have to ponder this endlessly....

[chevalij]

I think it would be obvious. A nice smooth top end with a tight bottom end. Oooh.. that's almost erotic.

[Bob Entooler]

Hi, Dick the newbie (new to any forum, first posting, new to winding as an income etc etc). I guess I'll be the only one. .195 please, if reaming is an avoidable tedium, I am in.

Also. I can sympathize with David's customer at a certain level. GFS offers that blue wire single coil and clear covers toboot. Lets face it, if they didn't want something diffrent and special my mother's sewing machine would still be used for sewing. If customer service wasn't important, Zparts wouldn't have bothered asking. If it matters to someone willing to shell out ten hours pay, then I will try to accommodate them. As long as it doesn't require reaming the pole holes myself, of coarse.

[Achiles]

Other than color what is the diference between
black,grey and red vulcanized fibre?

[zparts]

I will have the gray fiberboard on Friday and I should have 200 sets available by Monday. Also I have had just as many requests for .195 so I will also have that available sometime next week. Just give me a call or email me. Thanks everyone.

[zparts]

Other than color what is the diference between
black,grey and red vulcanized fibre?

As far as I know there is no difference. You can probably get any color you want if you order enough. Grey is considered "Standard" yet it is more expensive than black. Supply and demand I guess.

[zparts]

GREY Flatwork is here!

Ok so now the moment we have all been waiting for..........

Seriously, it's here. I have it listed online and we should have some available to ship Monday. Also I will try and have pictures online too. Keep in mind there may be a slight delay on shipping because I am sure we will get several orders at one time for this. Thanks again for everyone's interest and support. I look forward to hearing from you.
http://www.mojomusicalsupply.com/ite...200&id=2115376

Regards,

David Shepherd
Mojo Musical Supply

[David King]

David Shephard,
Are you currently selling raw vulcanized fiber panels in various colors and thicknesses? Just wondering as the $300 minimum at the fiberboard place has slowed me down.

[zparts]

David Shephard,
Are you currently selling raw vulcanized fiber panels in various colors and thicknesses? Just wondering as the $300 minimum at the fiberboard place has slowed me down.

Hello Dave,

I currently have 6'' x 6'' blank pieces in black and I will have the same for the grey in .093'' by next week.
http://www.mojomusicalsupply.com/pic...ickup%20Bobbin

Regards,

David

[Spence]

Really could do with some photos please.

[Jim Shine]

When you get into the other makes, do not stock with the top black, bottom gray formula because it is not universal. All the pickups that use one type of bobbin piece, like P-Bass, Jazz bass, Jazzmaster, etc are totally gray.

Has anyone found the 70's material? It is marbled blues and grays that yellows to a grayish green color.

[David Schwab]

Has anyone found the 70's material? It is marbled blues and grays that yellows to a grayish green color.

The yellowing is from being dipped in nitro lacquer. You can tint some lacquer amber and use that. Otherwise they are just the color of gray cardboard.

Here's a '74 P bass bobbin, and a '72 Mustang. Note the Mustang is black and gray.

[Jim Shine]

Nope on both. The flatwork varied in blues and even greens during the 70's. I have too many cleaned down to the raw material to know. And it wasn't lacquer they were dipped in. The only thing that softens that potting solution is denatured alcohol. Lacquer isn't affected by denatured alcohol. When I get back home I can grab a 1974 Tele bobbin and show you the color was never the same as the mid-late 60's gray. If it has potting solution on it still I can even demonstrate the alcohol solubility.

Some of you may recognize this picture. These were all duds at the time I scanned them for Clay. I repaired all but 3 and used alcohol (Jim Rolph told me that trick in the 90's). You can see the different shades that go way beyond the yellowing of the potting material.

[David Schwab]

Notice that the bass pickups have yellowed and the Strat pickups haven't. They wax pot Strat pickups, but the bass pickups were potted in some kind of lacquer which tends to yellow. It could also be some type of varnish. Denatured alcohol dissolves shellac.

I don't wind or rewind Fender pickups, but others here have stated that they lacquered the flatwork and magnets on many of them. I do know from removing the wire on both the P bass pickups and the Mustang pickups that they were lacquered. They wire was glued together with something, and it wasn't wax. Rick bass pickups are the same way.