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Thanks guys :bassist: I appreciate the help

I asked my dad to lend a helping hand so I wouldn't hurt anything (or myself). We started with the power cord and went through the circuit to check for any breaks. He works on electric scissor lifts and such so he knows more about electricity than I do. We found nothing that seemed out of place...

That was the answer I was looking for. I wasn't sure if it would show resistance or not, so that probably isn't the problem then. I used the meter to check the fuse and it shows resistance so I would assume that it's still good. It's soldered in so I hope it is. How would I check the switch...

I recently played a set with my gospel group at a church and the bass player/pastor for the church said he found this head in the basement while he was cleaning out a room to make himself an office. He said he hadn't even plugged it in to see if it worked because it was in his way so he gave it...

If the alnicos produce a stronger field than nothing, which is what I have now, then I'll be a happy camper. Haha. The neos I have have a pretty stout field. If something that strong were powering the pole pieces I couldn't imagine what it would sound like

I just ordered some Alnico 5 bars last night to put under the poles. They should do the trick for sure because the magnetism is rfeally strong coming from the slugs when they're touching one of the neo magnets. I just may try that out suraj. Thanks!

And that would also mean that the neodymium magnets I'm using to try and charge the pickups aren't necessarily too weak to do it. The steel just will not hold a charge. I now understand where i went wrong

Well if that is the case then it makes perfect sense why my poles feel like they haven't magnetized at all. And why the signal is weak entirely. I've been trying to charge steel and expecting it to keep charge. Which would also explain why they didn't work at all after a few weeks from trying to...

I really should have done more research before building these. The poles I got are for humbucker pickups. But I have learned a lot, however by messing up and having to fix it. I'll order the disk magnets from stew mac and give them a try on them and see what they do. Thank you Guys. That is a...

I found the packing slip that came with the magnets. It says that they're N48's and I believe that it is nowhere near strong enough to charge the poles. When I put a paper clip near the poles there seems to be no magnetic field at all. On all of my other bases, and even guitars, there is a very...

That's what I was thinking it was. The low resistance paired with weak magnetism. I'm not entirely sure what the strength is on the magnets though. I did buy them from ebay. Is there a better source to buy them? If so I'd definitely be game to order some stronger magnets before I bought new...

Alnico bar magnets are sometimes put under pickups in humbuckers for guitars from what I've seen, but never to keep poles magnetized. I've always seen people charge their own pickups using neodymeum bar magnets. And if EMG does that then it would make a lot of sense, because the tone coming...

I used a dril bungeed down to to pieces of board glued together at a 90 degree angle. To keep up with the turns I used a magnet and sensor from a bicylce odometer and souldered the wore to a pedometer and it worked pretty well. I just made a flat surface out of mdf to mount the bobins and used a...

I did ground to the back of the pots, but i don't think my iron gets hot enough to do any damage. I tried just straight wiring the pickups to the jack and it still has the same problem. weak signal, which leads me to believe that the pole pieces aren't magnetized enough, or I didn't put enough...

It's finished! well sort of. I got something going on with my pickups or wiring or something. I plug it in and the signal coming into the amp is real weak. You can hear it but compared to my other basses it is nowhere near as loud. Also when you have both of the volume pots opened up full, it...