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OK .. I finally did it. I've ruined my chances of getting $75 bucks for my pickup. Here's the basic observation of this pup without ruining it's functionality. It's a 2-wire, 2012, Gibson 57 Classic @ 7.91k
1. On removing the cover; I never saw any copper or brass color at all inside the cover walls where the dremel tool had contact. Unlike Epiphone where, I took the cover off last week from my new G400 SG test guitar and the dremel disclosed
copper/brass color everywhere.
2. Wax was very minimal .. hardly any
3. Baseplate measured perfectly to dimensions of 2 of our pup parts suppliers.
4. duo Black bobbins with square in circle (or vice versa)
5. comparing one of my brand new butyrate bobbins side by side, and, calipering as much as I could, my opinion is that Gibson is using butyrate bobbins for these 57s and bobbin is identical to mine.
6. heavy tape wrap of what looks like standard black paper tape like what I use from Hobby Lobby.
7. wire looks to be 42 plain enamel - purple in color. What I couldn't tell is if it was 'dyed' to be that color OR was it the real thing. Some guys have implied Gibson 'dyes' the cheaper wire for economic reasons ... hard to believe but, possible.
8. black & white leads are used .. couldn't tell which one came from which position - looked like 28 gauge.
9. slugs looked nickel coated and had very pronounced 'bulls-eyes'
10. wooden shim
11. magnet is full length 2.508" x .505" x .151"(fatter than normal?? mine are all .125-7"), rough cut. My Radio Shack gauss gadget read it at '142' .. that's after 1/2 a dozen measures... that can't be right. They say the A2 mag is 'aged' ...
that much????
That's the best I can do now. I don't want to dig deeper for fear of wrecking the pups functionality.
1. On removing the cover; I never saw any copper or brass color at all inside the cover walls where the dremel tool had contact. Unlike Epiphone where, I took the cover off last week from my new G400 SG test guitar and the dremel disclosed
copper/brass color everywhere.
2. Wax was very minimal .. hardly any
3. Baseplate measured perfectly to dimensions of 2 of our pup parts suppliers.
4. duo Black bobbins with square in circle (or vice versa)
5. comparing one of my brand new butyrate bobbins side by side, and, calipering as much as I could, my opinion is that Gibson is using butyrate bobbins for these 57s and bobbin is identical to mine.
6. heavy tape wrap of what looks like standard black paper tape like what I use from Hobby Lobby.
7. wire looks to be 42 plain enamel - purple in color. What I couldn't tell is if it was 'dyed' to be that color OR was it the real thing. Some guys have implied Gibson 'dyes' the cheaper wire for economic reasons ... hard to believe but, possible.
8. black & white leads are used .. couldn't tell which one came from which position - looked like 28 gauge.
9. slugs looked nickel coated and had very pronounced 'bulls-eyes'
10. wooden shim
11. magnet is full length 2.508" x .505" x .151"(fatter than normal?? mine are all .125-7"), rough cut. My Radio Shack gauss gadget read it at '142' .. that's after 1/2 a dozen measures... that can't be right. They say the A2 mag is 'aged' ...
that much????
That's the best I can do now. I don't want to dig deeper for fear of wrecking the pups functionality.
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