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NOW SORTED - THANKS ALL!!! WTB: Strat Neck Pickup
Am looking for a cheap strat neck pickup to replace a dead one on a Korean Squire strat that I've agreed to fix up for a friend to learn guitar on. Max budget is probably £15.
If anyone can recommend any of the cheapo pickups on eBay too, I'd be grateful. It's currently fitted with the mediocre stock ceramic ones.
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(Full disclosure: I need to buy a Tele bridge pickup for a project, and unless something economical comes up here by the time I get the money together, I will probably buy a MV one. The more people who can tell me whether they are actually any good or not...)
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If you are confident about soldering, disconnect the neck pickup output conductors at the eyelets on its baseplate.
Connect the conductors for the neck pickup to what was the bridge pickup. Mount the pickup in the neck position.
Invest your funds in a new, hotter pickup for the bridge position.
Funkfingers - Thank you for the sound advice on flipping the bridge pup into the neck position, and upgrading the bridge instead. However, sorry I forgot to mention that this is one of them contemporary jobbies, and as such is configured ssh.
Dchwhite - Thanks for the tip about those Maida Vales. They look far superior to anything I've managed to find on eBay in that price range. By the way it sounds like Bluesman 1989 might have some Tele pickups in his cupboard .
Zoolooter - I am potentially interested in the evil sheep. Are you able to tell me what they read, magnet type, and what the pole spacing is? Thanks!!
Now sorted with a neck and an upgraded middle pickup courteousy of Flattop.