Recent content by tomatmojotone

OObly, please send me an email at [email protected] and I will see what we can do about the shipping cost for you.

+1 for the rewind. This will help to maintain the value of the instrument if done by a reputable company. Pickups can still make sound even if they are open. The tone will be very weak and thin. Your tone control will also function as a volume if this is the case.

I have always replaced the wire with the exact type and color that came off of the pickup when it needed to be done. I still make every effort to restore vintage products with what was on them. Fender varied.. albeit not much.. but they did. You can't say definitively that all of x were wound...

Not trying to pick a fight here but I wound hundreds of 60's J-basses when I was at Lindy's. Some were PE but most are Formvar. The 70's were primarily PE although there were some years that formvar was prevelant.

Dave is right. I have made those before as an experiment with neo rods. The neo is WAY too strong to interact directly with the string. It will function better with an energized piece of steel. If you insist on using the neo rod you will have to use a much shorter piece closer to .150 to .200...

If you a building your own bass you should try winding your own pickups also. You can find all the custom parts you need at Mojo.

What you are looking for is a alnico rod pickup with 8000-9000 turns of 44 gauge wire. Any number of custom builders should be able to make it for you.

70's (Plain Enamel)Jazz basses do indeed have fewer turns of wire than the 60's (Formvar) models. All of the 70's I have rewound were about 8500 turns and will sound brighter because of it. SO, back to original question pre-CBS pickups were usually but not always 9000-9500 turns of Formvar. The...

It is probably a bad pickup but could be the pot too. First resolder all of the joints in that circuit. I have found a number of them with a cold solder joint due to speedy work. If that doesn't cure it you likely have a pickup problem but isolate the pot first and verify that it is functioning...

You don't need to rewind both halves. The wire is dependent on the year of pickups. 70's Fender is 42 gauge plain enamel 50-60's is 42 Formvar. The ohm reading on the first half will give you a close estimation of the number of turns needed IF you are certain of the gauge. Typically you will...