I researched before I did my work..
It said Suhr use the same wiring code as Seymour Duncan..
I done the Seymour Single Humbucker,One Volume,One Tone,,No Switch Circuit..
All the solder joints are strong and shiny..
I use good old poisonous rosin core solder..
Everything seems to be hooked up OK,apart from my Brain....
I got tired and slipped and sliced a knife right into my thumb and thumb nail..
i am on blood thinners..
There was Claret everywhere to use Arthur Daley talk..
So I had to stop..I was actually getting a bit light headed..
I skewered myself on string ends twice too..
When I get tired everything goes to crap..
So I am walking away from the guitar for today...
The working coil is the plain slug coil,not the one with screws in it....
Even then it is weak and I am getting touching Buzz,,,
Rather I appear to be grounding the guitar when I touch it..
It is buzzing when I am not touching it..
I'm not sure if this is consistent..
I am trying to relax just now..
I've just realised I've forgot my diabetes tablets too..Doh!!
Maybe the reason for the light headedness and my concentration drifting..
Nah!! that happens to me anyway..
That'll teach me for being too keen..
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I thought it was supposed to be easy..I guess it is to some people..
It certainly isn't to me..I watched guides etc...
So that is 2 total disasters today..
2 non working guitars..
Nobody seemed keen to help me with the first one..
I don't know if the Suhr pickup is faulty and I don't know how to check if it is that or the wiring..
Some help there would have been good...
I wish nobody had recommended that I change the magnet..
I could have at least sold the pickup on..
I won't try and do a magnet swap again,,I have learned my lesson..
People are too quick to make recommendations to people when they don't know if they can do the work or not..
Please not everybody is totally educated in this area.....
I have spent all my Money on that 12 string,,I just hope it is decent..
I will have 2 dead guitars for at least a month..
I feel gutted right now....
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is this Suhr not soldering it properly or me.. ?
Excuse me if I sound uninformed..I am basically..
This includes me,,do you assume they have that skill level..?
You never recommended straight pickups,,you recommended modifying them..
You made no mention of needing a skill level..
I took your advice,,and you made no mention of skill level..?
How can a person gauge their skill if they haven't done a job before and are inexperienced..... ?
Why I had to ask others for advice..Inexperience..
Often even just to get reassurance before I go in at times..
So i don't ruin things like £120 pickups..
HMMMM!!! Comments seem to have went missing from past posts..
Maybe I imagined it all..I really don't think so..
Look I don't want to make enemies with anybody..
I'm not that type of person,,I am not Mr Competitive..
i am just a guy that pops on here sometimes for advice..
I'm not looking for an argument..It's the last thing I need in my present mindset..
I hope you aren't a person who always has to be in the right..
Then nothing constructive is learned from the situation..
It is a suggestion that came up and through me following that suggestion I lost £120..
I am not asking you for it,,I don't imagine I would get it anyway..
So let my £120 sacrifice make you realise that not everybody has your skill level..
Then .hopefully the same thing won't happen again to someone else....
Again,I don't want a stand off or to see who can pee the farthest...
I have never used a Shur pickup, so don't know what that could be, but @FelineGuitars suggestion is something to look at.
If the humbucker is being used in both coils in series mode then the white and red wires need to be soldered together - sometimes players overlook this and end up with a pickup not working right or intermittently if those wires are only twisted together and not soldered.
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
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What one person will feel happy to do with their own guitar, another may not or will need to recognise that they may be better taking to someone with a lot of experience in these maters.
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
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I pushed the magnet so it came out of the non wired side..
After slackening the screws and creating a gap..
Maybe Seymour has started making them a bit more tamper proof or something..
I checked magnet orientation by using magnet against magnet while the one in the Seymour was only partially out..
Oh and the Pearly Gates uses the 62 mm magnet,,not the 58 mm one..
I bought both..
I had to take some of the tape off to get at the space where the magnet was..
Maybe a wire got broken there...I of course put it back on,although the tape wasn't as tidy.
I don't think I was rough at any point...
I think I am a quite unlucky person,,shit goes wrong a lot with me..lol
I have put on new strings and the neck and middle single coils still work..
It is a 22 fret Fender neck,,so it is a neck or strings off situation,
I don't want to take the neck off too often..
I just intend on either getting a pickup made if it can be done..
A pickup designed to work reliably in that situation..
There seems to sadly be more chance involved whether a pickup will work in a situation or not.
Or a plan B possibly just putting in 3 Iron Gear Jailhouse Rails..
Hopefully they match each other tonally..
They have some extra balls..
You need 500 K pots..
You Tube Demos aren't everything,but they sound good for Rock etc on there..
I have full single coil Strats...
Sometimes at high volume with a drummer you find there isn't as much treble as you though with come pickups though..
I found that with SD Hot Rails,but it is saying there is more top with the Jailhouse Rails on a EQ Chart..
Again that could be marketing though..
There are potential pitfalls everywhere..
I thought with the Single Suhr Pickup guitar..
What could go wrong here..
No other pickups to match it with..
Just one pickup to do one specific job..
So it ends up being basically almost silent,,but not quite..
The Pickup Gremlin still got me..
Your brain gets tired thinking about what approach to use with multiple guitars..
I think I am thinking the right things for now...
Fitting will be done by a repair Man I know this time..
I've done many succesful pickup replacements in the past,,
but the pickup Gremlins are strong at the moment..
The guitars may be away for a little while but hopefully they will come back OK..
I am just wondering how long I have to return the Suhr pickup if it's that that is faulty..
The Red and White..
Then taped them..
Same colour codes as Seymour Duncan..
The wires are soldered to the points stated on the diagram..
Every joint nice and sturdy and shiny..
The job is really neat..
I was quite proud of it until I discovered it didn't work..
The thumb slice when trying to shave back the too big Scratchplate is what made me have to stop things..
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This is something I thought though..
Good Suggestion..
I do have a cheap digital multimeter..
I haven't used it for years..
I used to use it for a Triode Strapped Single ended Hifi Amp I used to own..
The other thing I am thinking with the Suhr Pickup is that the major signal would be coming through the Black wire..
There is signal but it is very weak indeed..
it would also be that only part of a coil is working..
Or is it a case of working or not working for a coil as one wire is either broken or continuous..?
Do the same for the red and green wires - should also be about 7kohms
let us know the readings
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I take it I do...
I know what an Ohms symbol is,so I can do that bit..
Unsoldering can maybe wait a few days until I gather my confidence again.
I need to have a little break from taking guitars apart..
I have learned something new and very useful from you though...
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