Replacing a pick ups with modern ones

[Michael Ambrose]

If you could, pull the control plate off and post a photo of the underside.

I've got almost the same control plate on my Kent American.

I've got a feeling that your pickup is not dead at all, and that you've just got a bad solder job.

How are you with a soldering gun?

[Dunder]

[Dunder]

[Michael Ambrose]

[Tiax]

I got an old Jedson by TEISCO with the same PU's and I'm thinking of using these

Don't know it they will fit - I'm from Denmark and I haven't got the clue about inches

Cheers Allan

[Dunder]

[Dunder]

[quote="Michael Ambrose"]If you could, pull the control plate off and post a photo of the underside.




500k volume pot but the tone looks smaller... I haven't heard it doing anything much yet, but have only had theneck pup going... maybe a bigger one better?

[Dunder]

After buying an expensive pup and breaking it trying to carve off the sticking out bit of shoe on the mounting plate am very lucky to have been given a pair locally made vintage pups.
Jansen, from 60's or seventies... I'm told. Some nice folklore round these- they were made by one technician whose quality control depended on how big the weekend was, but midweek pups were good. New Zealand needed them to be made here then cause duties on imported guitars were very prohibitive.
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhib ... px?irn=505
Alnicos of some kind
I guess the magnets buried in the goo. Funny how very different it is to the original.


They both work and give me 7.4 and 7.7 ohms on the multimetre so I guess the hotter one is for the bridge.
However I want to stick them on top of the old mounting plate so I can raise or lower the pups as designed and after having the magnet sat on it for thirty years it has become magnetized itself. Is that going to be a problem? And does help identify the make?