Changing bobbins

[NightRider]

How hard is it to change bobbins on a SD? How do you do it? Thanks Rick

[Mark Cearlock]

Lets put it this way: Getting another pickup would be easier. Wait, are you talking like hybrid?

[super rad stuff]

if you mean changing bobbins between pickups like making a hybrid, that's slightly advanced stuff but very doable by anybody with soldering iron experience. as far as the actual plastic bobbin part goes, that's what the wind is on. unless you can rewind pickups, you'll definitely have to get a new pickup.

[MikeS]

You can swap coils (bobbins and windings) from baseplate to baseplate (used to make a hybrid). There are detailed directions on that surgery in the vault. If your goal is simply cosmetic you'll need to purchase the correct color or a bobbin topper.

[dr. ad]

even if you can wind and were to re-wind the wire from the SD to the new bobbin, you'd be incredibly lucky/skillful if it sounded anyting like the original; there's a lot of detail and variables involved. SD make 4 different PAF-type pickups on the same machine with the same gauge wire and they don't sound alike. you could paint it..? hehehe

on the bright side - NEW PICKUP TIME!

[NightRider]

Thanks all.... its a new CS RTM... It was supposed to be a reverse zebra... but it came zebra... guess I'll just have to find a guitar that the zebra looks good in

[The Usual]

Couldn't NR just pop out the slugs and put screws in. Flip it and have a double screw kind of deal? May sound and look pretty cool.

[Mark Cearlock]

Thanks all.... its a new CS RTM... It was supposed to be a reverse zebra... but it came zebra... guess I'll just have to find a guitar that the zebra looks good in

Umm, flip it & remove the logo?

[NightRider]

Umm, flip it & remove the logo?

Thought about that... but it just won't look right... I've seen many of guitars on Ebay like that....yuk

[Mark Cearlock]

Thought about that... but it just won't look right... I've seen many of guitars on Ebay like that....yuk

Yeah, I wouldnt do it either, lol

[DrNewcenstein]

You can swap coils (bobbins and windings) from baseplate to baseplate (used to make a hybrid). There are detailed directions on that surgery in the vault. If your goal is simply cosmetic you'll need to purchase the correct color or a bobbin topper.

Old thread, yeah, but I searched and didn't see any threads from/in the Vault (limited Search to that forum) about making hybrids.

Anyone got the link to the thread?

[Zhangliqun]

I don't think anyone was talkingabout moving the wire from one bobbin to another. Just swapping the bobbin with its undisturbed coil from one humbucker to another.

even if you can wind and were to re-wind the wire from the SD to the new bobbin, you'd be incredibly lucky/skillful if it sounded anyting like the original; there's a lot of detail and variables involved. SD make 4 different PAF-type pickups on the same machine with the same gauge wire and they don't sound alike. you could paint it..? hehehe

on the bright side - NEW PICKUP TIME!

[DrNewcenstein]

That's just it - the coil wire is wrapped around the bobbin, meaning to change the bobbin you have to either unwrap the coil wire or replace that coil entirely.

[GoDrex]

http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=22538 - How To Make a 59/Custom Hybrid

[DrNewcenstein]

Tanks!