Jazz Pickup Rewire

[devo1]

One of my pickups in my '73 Fender Jazz stopped working. I've already replaced with DiMarzio but miss my original sound.

1. Who can I send my pickup to rewire it?

2. Should I get both pickups rewired or just the broken one?

 

[El Güero]

If you have a Ohmmeter you can check the pickup coil for continuity. Just because there's no sound doesn't mean the pickup is bad. Often re-flowing the solder at the eyelets will bring a pickup back to life, if the meter shows an open line/circuit.

Leave the good pickup alone.

 

[devo1]

If you have a Ohmmeter you can check the pickup coil for continuity. Just because there's no sound doesn't mean the pickup is bad. Often re-flowing the solder at the eyelets will bring a pickup back to life, if the meter shows an open line/circuit.

Leave the good pickup alone.

Really great point

 

[Bass4ThePublic]

If soldering the pickup doesn’t work and it really is dead, I’d send it to Lindy Fralin and get it wound with plain enamel wire.

 

[iiipopes]

Same thing happened to me in 1981 on the neck pickup on the real 1975 light ash J-Bass I had then. At that point Fender was out of its corporate head and a player couldn't get replacement parts. I also installed original DiMarzio Model J pickups, with "patent applied for" stickers on them. Today if that happened, I would send the pickup out to Lindy to be rewound, but with the same wire as the other pickup to retain the historical consistency. Unfortunately, I live in an area of the country where back then there were no luthiers. So when the frets wore out I sold the bass instead of getting a refret. Not to worry. I know who owns it, and can borrow it any time I need a real '70's J-bass tone.