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Hello!
New to the forum, very new to the idea of trying to rewind pickups.
Bass is my second instrument, and ten years ago I found a very bad looking Ripper at a flea market for ten dollars. Been sitting in a closet until a couple weeks ago, when I pulled the pickups and tried to get a reading, which looked like a goose egg.
I'm a crafty, careful guy. So I says I'll try rewinding them myself, after seeing that most makers out there don't want to try to do it, what with them being encased in epoxy. The drop in replacements from SD would be over 300, so that's rich, even if the bass was ten bucks.
Done a bit of digging, and my noob brain can't extract the information I need from the information that's out there. One person did take readings, a lot more readings from the set than I thought was possible, and none of it made sense to me. On top of it, the pics I've seen of the insides of one of the pickups, the wires seem to be wound very different from other humbucking pickups I have seen, as if the magnets' poles are facing eachother instead of facing out of the instrument, and there between them are a set of screws facing out of the pickup. I believe they called them sidewinders?
So to shorten the question - Does anyone know what gauge wire was used on these pickups and what number of turns are required to approximate an original sets' readings, knowing I should get a gauss meter to check the magnets before I even start.
If this goes horribly wrong, I'll start saving, but most likely offer the parts to the board for sale. So if anyone is looking for a referb project, tell me I'm an idiot and a dreamer.
Thank you in advance!
New to the forum, very new to the idea of trying to rewind pickups.
Bass is my second instrument, and ten years ago I found a very bad looking Ripper at a flea market for ten dollars. Been sitting in a closet until a couple weeks ago, when I pulled the pickups and tried to get a reading, which looked like a goose egg.
I'm a crafty, careful guy. So I says I'll try rewinding them myself, after seeing that most makers out there don't want to try to do it, what with them being encased in epoxy. The drop in replacements from SD would be over 300, so that's rich, even if the bass was ten bucks.
Done a bit of digging, and my noob brain can't extract the information I need from the information that's out there. One person did take readings, a lot more readings from the set than I thought was possible, and none of it made sense to me. On top of it, the pics I've seen of the insides of one of the pickups, the wires seem to be wound very different from other humbucking pickups I have seen, as if the magnets' poles are facing eachother instead of facing out of the instrument, and there between them are a set of screws facing out of the pickup. I believe they called them sidewinders?
So to shorten the question - Does anyone know what gauge wire was used on these pickups and what number of turns are required to approximate an original sets' readings, knowing I should get a gauss meter to check the magnets before I even start.
If this goes horribly wrong, I'll start saving, but most likely offer the parts to the board for sale. So if anyone is looking for a referb project, tell me I'm an idiot and a dreamer.
Thank you in advance!
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