The Burns Baldwin GB65 guitar like the one this pickup came from ... the pickups are actually the same as those fitted to a Burns Marvin
bass, and look simply to have been re purposed for this application! I believe a lot of this happened in the burns range, and this caused me some confusion, as proper rez-o-Matik guitar pickups have open poles like a Strat ... in fact because Burns were copying Strat pickups pretty much exactly for Hank Marvin. Marvin had jumped the Fender ship for a while at that time as allegedly he couldn't keep his Strats in tune under hard trem use.
Now to rewind
Here the coil has been potted, the original lead wires have been added, and the laborious process of taping the coil through the holes in the former is underway. this took well over an hour of fiddly work. Lots of tea needed here I can tell you.
Note small greenfly in picture ... I train these for all sorts of workshop duties ...
Then finally the clamshell halves of the former come apart and we get ...
Now I simply fill in the tape covering and ....
Hey presto
ready to rock for many more years
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I wonder why Burns made them this way in the first place as it seems to me to be harder than using a bobbin.
You have to remember ... at this time pickup makers in the UK couldn't just buy bobbins as we do these days ... and fabrication from vulcanised fibre etc required expensive dies to be made for stamping (and that needed a press) ... oh, and injection moulding was super expensive ... as it still is for small runs.
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