Fender '62 P Pickup Plate

[FerruleCat]

I want to detach these coils from the baseplate so I can line them up on a bass with narrow string spacing.

I can desolder the short black wire where it attaches to the bobbin, or I can leave it attached, desolder from the plate, and then splice in a new lead to the short wire.

The former seems to make more sense, but because I'm not certain what's going on where the short lead attaches to the bobbin, I wanted to check here. The odd thing is that i can't spot any obvious connection to the coil at that point. Could I simply desolder at the bobbin and slip in a new lead, or is there some unknown gotcha in doing that?

Thanks.

 

[line6man]

There is a significantly higher risk of damaging the pickup from resoldering at the bobbin than just resoldering the other end of the wire. Leave the wire attached at the pickup, and desolder it from the copper plate.

 

[FerruleCat]

Will do. Thanks for that good advice.

 

[Frenchy-Lefty]

That is correct. I had to do that on mine for a different reason as I installed them on my left handed PBass and had to flip the plate and resolder the pickups to the other side.(it all make sense if you look at a lefty and a non-lefty PBass side by side)