Austen it looked to me like the positive/hot wire (green one) was shorted to the side of the pick up casing. You can tell if you have a connection by reading both wires to each other, there should be some resistance (in the 8-10k ohm range, or lower but still you should read some high resistance. If the pups read open/infinity you've got a bad connection. (The resistance is the coil.) I think if the green wire & coil lead were insulated, even with a shrink sleeve.(the connection fed through one end then shrunk) that may have helped the pick up. Or perhaps the pick up needs to be gossed (I know I misspelled it, it may be guassed, or something else.) But all you need to do that is a couple of neodymium bar magnets find the polarity have N on one side S on the other & simply pass the pick up through rather quickly. It restored the magnets. There is a great video by Will Galvin of Galvin Guitars, he used to be called the Guitar Dr & also Will's Easy Guitar, on YT. One can learn a lot from him. I'm a fan. (He's a bit gruff, but I think you can handle him.) Gil
You know a lot about these issues... much more than I have the will to know. :-) pity you don't live next door. :-) The bottom line is that the owner wants to do these things... and some other things and it let me less than happy to set it free when it had issues... :-(
@@LennonLuthierFinagler Austen I actually went to US Navy school, in 1976-77, to learn that stuff. Learned all about generators, vacuum tubes/valves, etc., etc. Sadly every aircraft I worked on after that schooling was solid state, no tubes, etc. So during the years, I don't remember hardly anything. I'll see something & think, "Oh I know that." I know about pickups as they are simply a thin copper wire wound, around magnets. (A variation of an electrical generator actually, except neither the field [magnetic], nor the armature [the copper wires] move) they work by "induction". I figured this out watch guys wind pickups, repair stereo speakers, etc. You see the coil, is 1 continuous wire, there's no break in it, (exactly like a loud speaker)that's why you'll read resistance, when checking for continuity. (Amazing what one can remember.) I still recommend Will Galvin, he's in my list on my page of who I'm subscribed to. I checked last night, he's got a different name but Galvin is still in it. (He saved my $100 beater acoustic, with his advice. That quality plywood back, sides, & top, guitar actually sounds very good now.(we know only the finest quality plywood was used in construction) you should see my $85 partical board body, bass. It's a treasure to behold.(but I've an old Korg AX3B Modeller pedal for it, that's makes it sound really good.(still haven't figured the pedal out, after 15 yrs, so I use the 40 presets. LoL) Hope I helped a bit. Gil (my true identity when not fighting crime in the bleak dangerous underbelly of Wichita Kansas USA)
George Harrison had one of those, though it was a three pickup, strat-type.
Very cool, thanks for the insights!
I believe he had two of these... but neither of them are the same exact model as this one... I 'think' his were 1962....
Austen it looked to me like the positive/hot wire (green one) was shorted to the side of the pick up casing. You can tell if you have a connection by reading both wires to each other, there should be some resistance (in the 8-10k ohm range, or lower but still you should read some high resistance. If the pups read open/infinity you've got a bad connection. (The resistance is the coil.) I think if the green wire & coil lead were insulated, even with a shrink sleeve.(the connection fed through one end then shrunk) that may have helped the pick up. Or perhaps the pick up needs to be gossed (I know I misspelled it, it may be guassed, or something else.) But all you need to do that is a couple of neodymium bar magnets find the polarity have N on one side S on the other & simply pass the pick up through rather quickly. It restored the magnets. There is a great video by Will Galvin of Galvin Guitars, he used to be called the Guitar Dr & also Will's Easy Guitar, on YT. One can learn a lot from him. I'm a fan. (He's a bit gruff, but I think you can handle him.) Gil
You know a lot about these issues... much more than I have the will to know. :-) pity you don't live next door. :-) The bottom line is that the owner wants to do these things... and some other things and it let me less than happy to set it free when it had issues... :-(
@@LennonLuthierFinagler Austen I actually went to US Navy school, in 1976-77, to learn that stuff. Learned all about generators, vacuum tubes/valves, etc., etc. Sadly every aircraft I worked on after that schooling was solid state, no tubes, etc. So during the years, I don't remember hardly anything. I'll see something & think, "Oh I know that." I know about pickups as they are simply a thin copper wire wound, around magnets. (A variation of an electrical generator actually, except neither the field [magnetic], nor the armature [the copper wires] move) they work by "induction". I figured this out watch guys wind pickups, repair stereo speakers, etc. You see the coil, is 1 continuous wire, there's no break in it, (exactly like a loud speaker)that's why you'll read resistance, when checking for continuity. (Amazing what one can remember.) I still recommend Will Galvin, he's in my list on my page of who I'm subscribed to. I checked last night, he's got a different name but Galvin is still in it. (He saved my $100 beater acoustic, with his advice. That quality plywood back, sides, & top, guitar actually sounds very good now.(we know only the finest quality plywood was used in construction) you should see my $85 partical board body, bass. It's a treasure to behold.(but I've an old Korg AX3B Modeller pedal for it, that's makes it sound really good.(still haven't figured the pedal out, after 15 yrs, so I use the 40 presets. LoL) Hope I helped a bit. Gil (my true identity when not fighting crime in the bleak dangerous underbelly of Wichita Kansas USA)
Wichita - is it plagued like the rest of the USA with the dark forces?
How do I get in touch with you, sir?
you can email austen (at) austenlennon.co.uk :-)
@@LennonLuthierFinagler thank you, sir.