tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48456050335510156312024-02-07T09:37:28.597-08:00The Guitar WeaselHand made pickups, from London's East End ...Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-24618808697564365312016-10-22T03:09:00.000-07:002016-10-22T03:09:10.580-07:00We add another 'Real Vintage' to the Oil City Masterwound range.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We get lots of rewinds through our workshop, and this puts us in a great position when we have analysed multiple examples of tasty old pickups ... to create very accurate reproductions. These reproductions often incorporate things we have discovered that you won't find in the vintage guitar books! One of our pre CBS rewinds is documented on the Fretboard forum <a href="http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/79157/oil-city-pickups-early-60s-strat-pickup-rewind#latest" target="_blank">here</a><br />
This new Strat set is the Masterwound Pre-BS-62 and gives that wonderful full, warm vintage tone that is so sought after.Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-40916354429715234602016-09-24T04:59:00.001-07:002016-09-26T03:53:43.016-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After some flirting with software to bring this blog into my Oil City pickups site, I finally decided to simply make it available as a 'window' on my home page ... saves loading time etc etc.<br />
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Here's some eye candy of our latest custom, multi-scale seven string Masterwound Blackbird Pickup to get you salivating.<br />
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A beautiful Dan MacPheson custom made instrument fitted with Oil City NightFighter pickups .... or a stunning Blackmachine B6 fitted with ASL Blackbird pickups ...<br />
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I'm happy to say those pickup sets both come from my design pen ... and my workshop. Nearly three years of building and my pickups are cropping up everywhere.</div>
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Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-3493471679422995692014-08-23T08:37:00.002-07:002014-08-23T08:42:21.413-07:00Long time no post!First my apologies for taking forever to come up with a new blog post ... but so much has been happening that trying to find time to write any of it down has been problematic!<br />
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Oil City is going from strength to strength, with close to 1000 pickups made and sold to date and a constantly full order book. Oil City is selling well at home, throughout Europe ... and even further afield!<br />
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At the beginning of this year I was approached by <a href="http://www.felineguitars.com/" target="_blank">Feline guitars in Croydon</a> with a view to producing pickups both for their beautiful custom instruments, and also for retail, and since then I have been developing a whole new range of pickups that will be distributed by my authorized dealers Feline.<br />
Pretty much all my Oil City Range was, and is based on benchmark designs I know well. Jonathan at Feline brought his encyclopedic knowledge of humbuckers to the party ...and the result was an extensive range spanning pretty much the whole history of rock music ... from classic PAF designs to metal shred beasts!<br />
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I researched, and tested materials ... wire grades and coatings, baseplate materials, magnet types and configurations ... becoming a bit of a workshop hermit in the process.Now the first deliveries of these pickups are on the shelves at Feline and things are all very exciting.<br />
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My Oil City range will still be the same ... and indeed will expand ... as I now have help in the form of Katie my workshop assistant to share some of the load. We are gearing up for the Christmas rush even now ...<br />
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Oh yes and the name on these new pickups? My own: <a href="https://www.aslpickups.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ash Scott-Lockyer </a>Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-76135729171276019112014-03-28T15:49:00.003-07:002014-03-28T15:49:59.731-07:00The Treatment and Oil City<div class="Meta CommentMeta CommentInfo">
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I have a massively soft spot for the original Dimarzio Super Distortion ... this one came in on the Kawai Rock and Roll Star I bought a few months ago. A rather sad example, this on has been butchered, with an extra cable shoehorned through the baseplate to form a crude coil tap.<br />
Both bobbins were loose and hanging apart as the 'shims' had been removed to allow the bodged cable to curl around the bobbins ... and hence everything sagged!<br />
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First job was to stabilise the coils by making a pair of wood (mahogany) shims to brace the unsupported ends of the bobbins.<br />
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I decided to junk the rather short remainder of the original twin core and shield hookup cable. Installing instead a length of my Oil City four conductor cable to enable series/parallel and coil tap switching.<br />
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Here we have the new cable neatly attached ... with shrink tube rather than old tape as before! I used DIMarzio's wiring code rather than my own out of respect for 'uncle Larry'.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just got some nice comments about my Firebird Winterizers</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> ... </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">so in a burst trumpet self blowing here they are (grin).</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I recently bought my
Tokai Firebird new and although the finish and playability are superb, the
original pickups were muddy and lacked the definition one would expect from a
mini-humbucker. Ash was personally very helpful with my inquiry about the Oil
City 'Winterizers', took the time to explain how Firebird pickups were supposed
to be made and how Oil City could hand build these for me. The pickups arrived
ahead of time and really look the part with their nickel finish and braided
leads. Having now tried the pickups through my Marshall valve amp, these
pickups deliver. Clean tones are rich with good harmonic overtones. With gain
applied they remain dynamic, each string still maintaining its definition. I
cant wait to get out and gig my new 'Oil City Winterizer equipped Firebird.
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Regards</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John</span></i></span></span></div>
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Things have been busier than a busy thing at Oily Towers! Here's a small taster of a pickup that will soon be available ... no details yet ... but it promises to be quite special.Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-14064828376673274702014-01-02T14:43:00.003-08:002014-01-02T14:49:58.020-08:00Another year over ... and a new one's just begun ...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Well another year has come and gone and Oil city pickups has
weathered all , and gone from strength to strength. There is now a whole
diverse range with a bit of something for everyone … from high output ‘metal’
pickups to Gretsch style Cow-T-Rons … and oodles of Telecaster pickups. Thanks
to all those who’ve e mailed me with kind words about the pickups I’ve wound
for you … and for all the piccies you’ve sent of your guitars … I’m just an old
gear-head at heart, and as soon as I have time they’ll all find their way to the
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Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-47556413202502820272013-09-19T12:22:00.003-07:002013-09-19T12:23:15.491-07:00Latest ... from a very busy Oily Towers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lordy I've been busy lately! Thanks all you people who have been buying my pickups like hot cakes ... you are too kind (grin). Here's my latest update ... my Mighty Ninety uumbucker sized P90 ... now with nickel silver covers!<br />
<br />Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-79013640957957438642013-07-24T01:06:00.000-07:002013-08-05T07:44:56.883-07:00Music Radar ForumAs many who visit here will know, I was a regular contributor to the Music Radar forum ... which suddenly suddenly went 'down'. Well the good news is the cast away members have forged themselves a permanent new home here <a href="http://thefretboard.co.uk/">http://thefretboard.co.uk/</a><br />
You will find me there as a regular contributor ... <br />
Ash (AKA the Guitar Weasel)Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-21545875467156538362013-05-10T06:13:00.001-07:002013-05-10T06:13:24.386-07:00New pickup prototype <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An often ignored design ... at least outside of rockabilly ... is the DeArmond Dynasonic ... or 2000. Top end clarity and bite, bottom end slap and grind, yet not as 'middle heavy' as a P90.<br />
Here is my first prototype bobbin and plastic top insert (white here ... but production ones may well have a choice of black, parchment, mint or 'tortoise shell'.)<br />
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Powerful brutes, the originals of these topped 9k resistance and drove those fifties amps hard. One reason they are not as popular as they might be is the complex and expensive 'valve gear' pole height adjustment mechanism that doubles the height of the pickup and makes it pretty well impractical to fit to anything but a hollow body guitar.<br />
I will be dispensing with the mechanism, and pre-setting any stagger to the poles (fine with modern strings), though keeping the distinctive adjustment screws as simply dummies. I will also be making these with the standard humbucker and soap-bar P90 form factors to enable the widest spread of users to be able to fit them to their guitars.<br />
Bit more jig and tool making to do yet ... but all part of the game<br />
TGW <br />
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Two more pickup demonstrator guitars have joined the Oil
City fold … both Ibanez Artcores, and both … I have to say … absolutely
exceptional instruments. The first to arrive was a sparkle black thin body
‘Western Graphic AFS75TD … destined to host a pair of my Cow-T-Ron Gretsch
style humbuckers. The second a gorgeous antique ivory finished deep body AF75
... I’ll come to my choice of pickup prototypes for that beauty later!</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;">Here’s
the AFS75TD before I started work!</span></div>
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The most horrible thing about this beastie were the ACH1 and
ACH2 Ibanez pickups fitted. The whole top end was is muffled in woolly yuckiness …
and the bridge pickup was harsh and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>brittle yet had no real punch.I will try and post some sound files to illustrate (yuck).</div>
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Right, out with the old and in with the new … a nice shiny
pair of Cow-T-Ron Specials<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with the nice
curved tops!<br />
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Mmmmmmmmm sexy (though I say so myself). </div>
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For those who don’t know, the Cow-T-Ron is my take on Ray
Butts classic FilterTron design … but in a humbucker size. The output on these
is low … around 4.5k neck and 4.8k bridge … but the sound is powerful for such
a slender coiled beast, and loaded with that hollow rockabilly bark. </div>
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So to the first job before those pickups come out: that
there fully floating bridge will simply drop out when I slacken the strings,
losing the intonation settings … so some masking tape will show me exactly
where to reposition the bridge after the work’s done. I shall probably use some
double sided tape unser the bridge ‘feet’ to help hold it in position. I’m a
powerful strummer, and have been causing the whole bridge to move fractionally
sideways after heavy playing sessions. This should keep things lined up!</div>
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The pots will be replaced with the pickups, but I’ve decided
to reuse the existing wiring as it seems pretty good on the whole. I decided on
Alpha full size pots rather than CTS as this will save reaming the pot holes in
the guitar’s front to take the larger CTS shafts. It’s not simply laziness …
okay well it is mostly, but Alphas are pretty robust and until I hear the
instrument with the new pickups I don’t yet know if it will be a keeper!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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After the strings come off the first job is off with the
Bigsby vibrato tailpiece so I can trap the tailpiece earth wire so that I can
get enough slack to pull out the wiring harness without losing it inside.</div>
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So I soldered an old guitar string to it and gently pushed
it inside … the string will allow me to easily pull it back after the
pickup/pot swap.</div>
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For semis where the selector switch is on the top bout I
would next have attached string to the switch shaft with tape then unscrewed
the nut and pushed the switch inside before attacking the pots. However the
Artcore has its selector switch in rather an odd place:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>right next to the volume pots. This is
convenient for the pickup swap, as the switch is reachable through the f hole …
but is actually a bit of a pain when playing as it falls right under the bigsby
arm! I the future I may install a selector switch on the top horn if I can get
round to it, perhaps<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>putting a master
volume or ‘varitone’ switch in the redundant hole.</div>
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Out with the nasty mini pots. Notice the masking tape to
protect the finish from any nasty accidents!</div>
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The old pickups are separated from the harness and the new
units fitted.</div>
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The Ibanez units use horribly short springs so I raided the
parts box for some longer ones to allow a full range of adjustment to the
Cow-T-Rons.</div>
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You will probably notice I haven’t bothered feeding string
through the ‘pot’ holes as I removed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
old <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>controls … if I were replacing all
the wiring I probably would have done. However the layout of the controls is
nice and close to the f hole, so I will pass the string through once the re
wire is done (saves getting tangled in multiple strings as I’m soldering</div>
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I’ve laid out the new components and soldered in the new
caps to the replacement tone pots</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Components are now carefully soldered in and cotton cord brought
through the control holes and out of the f hole. I tend to use gaffer tape and
a quick turn around the control shaft to secure the cords to the pot s … but it
does require a careful hand not to lose a pot inside and thus have to start
again from scratch. And it’s always the last pot you lose! </div>
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Firstly the jack socket is eased into place. I use stiffer electrical wire instead of string to guide that to it's hole. A kink of wire is made around one of the jack contacts so that it grips the component under tension ... but once the jack is in place with the nut slid over the wire and tightened a couple of turns ... then a little more <b>gentle</b> tension will unkink the wire and it will just slip out.</div>
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Next the pots go into position</div>
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Slowly slowly is the order of the day ... and a dentist's inspection mirror is handy when things get snagged (as they often do).</div>
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All back together ….</div>
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... then some heavy chrome Gretsch style
knobs to complete the ‘look’. </div>
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I will post some sound sample shortly, but the difference is
startling: gone is the muddy, ‘cardboardy’, unrefined sound. In its place
cutting treble,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thwacking bass, and nicely
scooped mids.</div>
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It’s now a serious looker too ... see how it attracts cool cats?</div>
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Here's a taster of its white stable mate!</div>
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My 'under development' DeArmond style single coils for that one methinks.<br />
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Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-2537913457535873892013-04-20T01:46:00.000-07:002013-04-20T01:47:15.147-07:00Gauss 2 ... return of the gauss!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As promised here is part two of my home made gauss meter magnetometer project ... the dreaded circuit diagram. All pretty simple really: the 9v DC is smoothed by the 0.33uF capacetor before being reduced to 5v by the power supply module. Then the 0.1uF cap adds further smoothing before the voltage reaches the hall effect sensor. The output from the whole lot is then measured by the multimeter ... any cheap digital one will do.<br />
In the next part I will talk you through assembly and interpreting the results ... happy days!<br />
<br />Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-72303509197700197662013-04-02T07:45:00.002-07:002013-04-02T07:46:28.514-07:00Is there a gauss in the house? Pt 1<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My old Mk1 gaussmeter!</td></tr>
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Why, you might ask, might an ordinary guitarist need a gauss-meter (or
magnetometer)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Er … well you can probably
see why it might be useful to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">me</i> as a
pickup maker, dealing with magnets all day … but why might <i>you</i> want to make one? Well aside from curiosity
and stuff like that … if you mess about changing guitar pickups etc and more
importantly, occasionally swapping humbucker or P90 magnets … a tool that not
only lets you tell the polarity of a pickup, but also its flux strength is a
pretty cool thing to have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> You can even 'age' magnets yourself once you can measure before and after strength, and ...</span>the clincher
... is when you discover that a DIY meter need only four components, and requires
only that you can solder reasonably well to make it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> You will need a digital multimeter to read the info your gauss meter is sending out, but many of us have one of those anyway, and a cheapo e bay one for six or seven quid is fine.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Reality check? Okay, so a cheap compass <i>will</i> work for checking pickup polarity ... and a Schatten polarity tester - from StewMac in the US - will do an even clearer job. But with postage, the Schatten (which is only a little magnet in a tube with one pole marked nort and the other south) will cost <i>more</i> than building a gaussmeter ... and one of these is WAY cooler and should cost less than a tenner ... fifteen to twenty quid if you have to buy a cheap multi meter! </span></div>
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Firstly the major component is a ‘hall effect device’. This
little gismo is used in many applications, and has the neat property that when
you feed it a nice stable voltage of say, five volts … a nice stable 2.5 volts
comes out the other end. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘BORING’ you
may cry … well yes, until you put the hall sensor in a magnetic field … then if
the pole is ‘south’ the voltage goes up proportionally with the strength of the
magnet … and if north, it goes down … again in proportion to the strength of
the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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In theory we only need to feed that 5 volts in and measure
the DC voltage ‘out’ with a digital multi meter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to have a crude, functioning gauss meter. In practise it’s only slightly
more complex than that: if you intend to power the hall sensor from a 9v
battery then you’ll need a ‘voltage regulator’ to deliver that 5 volts. Many
people leave it at those two components … but I was taught that it’s a good
plan to ‘filter’ the DC from the battery to the power supply and also filter
the power supplies’ output to the hall sensor … just to provide nice squeaky
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I mounted everything on a small ‘perf board’ I had knocking
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So here’s the component list , and we’ll get to the circuit
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E bay is good for all of these … a chunk of ‘perf board’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to hook it all up on would be cool … and if
you are feeling like being posh … a pair of banana sockets to attach the meter
and a box to put everything in (you could use an old pedal enclosure).</div>
Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-22953610671239757072013-03-31T03:22:00.001-07:002013-03-31T03:22:37.235-07:00Seems like about five minutes ago it was Christmas ... and now 'lookie lookie', we're into the Easter holidays ... scary how time charges along!<br />
The main Oil City website has had a major overhaul, with input from some friends of mine (you know who you are) and is cracking along nicely. Our Oil City logos have had a professional re design, and I'm popping out new products left right and centre!<br />
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Above is our classic P90 'FireWatch' pickup ... and hot on its heels will be a fully humbucking pickup in a P90 shell. featuring the power and breadth of my BrassKnuckle in a smaller, P90 guitar friendly package. <br />
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My Cow-T-Ron pickups will soon be available with 'LollarTron' style curved top nickel covers as an option, and my humbuckers are now available covered or with zebra/reversed zebra/black or all cream bobbins. <br />
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All my Strat pickups are now available with baseplates to special order
... and they are also available as an after-market part in my fetching
'gun blued' finish.<br />
Still got to get Mini Humbuckers and Frebird pickups off the blocks ... and Jaguar and Jazzmaster units will be following them up.<br />
My next set of blog posts should be some 'how to' posts ... including how to build a polarity tester/gauss meter ... and some fun wiring doodads. Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-87867466734812015432013-02-05T23:30:00.002-08:002013-02-05T23:31:07.267-08:00Phew!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I’ve been so busy recently I’ve hardly had a chance of
keeping the blog up to date. Custom jobs and new products … as well as keeping
all of you supplied with old favourites like Triple Blues Strat sets and
HardMan Tele pickups. Well, I will have been going full steam ahead for very
nearly a year now and I’m a little shocked by the way the business has come on.
There are literally hundreds of guitarists using Oil City pickups all over the
country … and abroad too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have had to
build ‘Gloria’ my ‘mark three’ winding machine to cope with the demand … I will
post pictures as soon <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as I have time to
tidy her up. She had to be pressed into service even before she was properly
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I’ve just got the new ‘CowTron’ pickup added to the list of
production pickups … </div>
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and a new high output Strat set known as StoneTones … and now there is
barely a day goes by without the familiar sight of me doing the ‘post run’ at the
local corner Post Office. A carrier bag packed with padded envelopes bearing
our familiar ‘industrial sunset’ logo. Yes it’s all very East End!</div>
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The only down side is that I have had no time to gig, see
live music … or indeed to see much of the outside world! </div>
Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-64503414069289692922013-01-11T06:01:00.000-08:002013-01-11T10:02:05.027-08:00Gertcha! (you cowson!)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I don’t really know why, but the great sound of Gretsch
pickups seems to have passed me by. I remember sitting and listening to the
electronics expert Ron Fairweather at the music shop where I worked in the
seventies. He had some big Gretsch semi acoustic and it sounded wonderful. But
then I went out and bought a Telecaster and the die was cast! </div>
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Well, till now that is. A customer asked me if I could come
up with a classic Gretsch FilterTron sort of sound, in a standard humbucker
package. Well could I? </div>
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The FilterTron sound comes from firstly it’s very low power,
for a humbucker at least. With a fifties Gibson PAF humbucker the DC resistance
was anywhere between 7k and 9k. With a fifties Filtertron the resistance barely
crept up to 5k … less than the majority of single coil pickups!</div>
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The FilterTron was a design cooperation between <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ray
Butts and Chet Atkins, largely because Atkins didn’t like Gretsch’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>single coil pickups at the time. In fact
Butts may well have been the inventor of the humbucker rather than Seth Lover
of Gibson … it’s just that Lover got to the patent office first! Anyhow, tiny, low
wound coils with a huge alnico 5 magnets give the FilterTron its trademark open
twangy growl. </div>
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My first step was to measure up a FilterTron and see how I
was going to fit the essentials of a tall narrow pickup into a case designed
for a PAF … a wide, squat one! The Gretsch pickup is around ¾ of an inch tall …
whereas a vintage nickel PAF cover is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>only 7/8! One bit of good news was that though much narrower, the
Gretsch bobbins were around the same length as standard F spaced Gibson style
bobbin, and near enough the same height. This coupled with the fact that though
the Gretsch pickup was much narrower than the Gibson, the bobbins were no more
than 1.6mm closer together. This would mean that I could use standard Gibbo
style bobbins without cutting them down and not really change the sound to an appreciable
degree.</div>
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My next problem was the magnet. The fifties magnets were
huge tombstones ¼ of an inch thick … compared with the 1/8<sup>th</sup> inch
thick PAF magnets! Their power helped to compensate for the coils low output …
and the alnico 5 helped to add snap and bite. Recent re-issues have used
ceramic magnets, but I’m not a fan of the grainy top you can get with that, so
I devised a special ‘Siamese’ magnet assembly that utilises two alnico 5
magnets to take the place of the one in the original. These pickups will (shortly)
go into full production … so I have persuaded my magnet suppliers to make
vintage sized magnet for future editions of this pickup!</div>
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With two low output bobbins wound (both screw coils like the
original Gretsch) and a magnet assembly sorted I then found I didn’t have long
enough baseplate screws to hold it all together! Oh well, masking tape, double
sided tape and cardboard packing got a rough prototype sitting in the guts of
the ‘pink terror’ Strat.</div>
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Here are a couple of rough and ready MP3s to show what we have (direct into Reaper with just a little slap back echo on the second one</div>
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<a href="http://www.oilcitypickups.co.uk/Gertcha.mp3">MP3</a><br />
<a href="http://www.oilcitypickups.co.uk/Gertcha2.mp3">MP3 2</a><br />
Result!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sound was
pretty close to what I’d expected: bright, woody with brilliant string
definition and an almost single coil character. Twangy and thinner than a
conventional humbucker it has lots of attack and a particular ‘stringy’ quality
that with overdrive (my trusty TS808 clone) turned into quite a roar.</div>
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What’s to do now? Well the pole pieces need changed for some
nice nickel plated ones instead of the trashy gold plated ones I have in there
as place holders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some longer screws
need to be sourced to hold the whole shooting match together … oh and some
chunky maple spacers will need to be made, pretty much double the size of normal
humbucker ones.</div>
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I’ve trial fitted a nickel cover and luckily the ‘lip’ of
the baseplate gives just enough height for a cover to be fitted … phew! Not
sure if the pickup will be potted that’ll be up to the customer, but unspotted this
pickup has a lovely delicate tone … it almost seems a shame …</div>
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Oh I should point out that my products are in no way associated with Gretsch or the FilterTron trademarks. </div>
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Stay tuned for part two! </div>
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Thought I'd show some of the stages in making one of our Diesel Tap pickups ...<br />
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Here we have the assembled flatwork sitting on my vice ... having just had its eyelets set in ... yes three!</div>
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Coils wound ... here you can clearly see from left to right: coil start wire tap at 6.5k (centre) and coil finish wire ... the full 9k. A little cyanoacrilate adhesive is used to hold the wires to the bottom flatwork, and away from each other and the cable hole! After marrying up to one of our specially cut and gun-blued base plates ... the one for the 'Tap' is on the left ... with the wider 'cut out' ...<br />
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The hookup wires are added and the baseplate earth link. you can see I've string wrapped the coil to protect it too.</div>
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Here are the batch of three produced together (one Thames Delta, one HardMan and our customer's Diesel Tap) awaiting potting ... dummy short screws are used to keep the base plates aligned while in the hot beeswax/paraffin wax mix .</div>
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And the customer's 'Tap' emerges from the potting bath ...</div>
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It's cooled for an hour or so, before being checked electrically and having it's signed serial number applied ... </div>
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Then it'll join it's HardMan neck pickup and custom loom to be dispatched to the customer!</div>
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To my mind far too many humbucking pickups today sound
similar - everyone seems to be producing stuff with a tight, compressed, almost
processed sounds. Everyone’s obsessed with vintage this and PAF that, </div>
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forgetting that many guitarists need to find their own voice, not sound like
the crowd. So enter the Oil City BrassKnuckle. It’s not a crowd follower …
every element of its design harks back to much older concepts than current
trend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a humbucker sure, but more
than that, it’s two fully independent single coils, with separate alnico
magnets for each string, mounted on an industry standard humbucker frame that
will fit in any guitar built or adapted to take humbuckers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The coils are custom made 50% taller than
standard for enhanced top end response. A steel inner inductance plate, similar
in function to a Telecaster’s baseplate, shapes the frequency response further.</div>
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Left is a wound BrassKnuckle bobbin right a standard humbucker one.</div>
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What you end up with is a tone that is vintage, very broad
in its response, and absolutely huge! Split down you have classic single coil
cut and sparkle with masses of harmonic content and ‘air’ in the tone. With
both coils in play power is there a plenty and the BrassKnuckle lends its self perfectly
to all kinds of series/parallel in or out of phase switching combinations. </div>
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Coming soon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… the BrassKnuckle neck position humbucker. </div>
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<br />Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-32374374594543763882012-10-19T06:36:00.001-07:002012-10-20T02:31:07.164-07:00Replacing a Fender Wide Range 'reissue' humbucker<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Well, here is the put up or shut up moment. After six months
or more brewing away in my head as an idea, another couple months sourcing
parts and researching construction techniques and spec … here is the first Oil
City Buccaneer Wide Range replacement going into my business partner Tim’s
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The original Fender ‘reissue’ unit:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>problem? It sounded nothing like a proper 1971
Wide Range pickup as designed by Seth Lover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not an awful pickup, but muddy and a bit wimpish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original Wide Range had a reputation for
string definition, and a big, fat, rounded tone: plenty of highs and lows.
Sadly Fender’s reissue only looks like the original on the outside … the guts
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So out with the Fender reissue: an issue sprung up at once.
The reissues use bigger diameter metric mounting screws. Luckily I had a few of
the proper diameter and thread in my ‘junk’ box. Oops three nickel plated and
one gold plated. I used the old repairman’s dodge and ‘cleaned’ the gold screw head
with metal polish … gold is plated on top of nickel … so a couple of rubs had
stripped off the gold plating to reveal the nickel underneath (one reason I
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Soldering in the Buccaneer was the work of a couple of
minutes. It’s four conductor – unlike either the original or the Fender
reissues, so the green and white wires are soldered together and tied back.</div>
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could have fitted a coil shunt on a push pull switch … but I was eager to hear
the results, and it’s … er … not my guitar, so I'd have to consult Tim first! I was a bit shocked how cheap and
weedy the original wiring was, but that will be taken care of later (for the
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The Buccaneer uses the same size jumbo coils as the real 70s item, but not the horribly expensive <span class="st">and almost impossibl to get<i> CuNiFe </i>magnets like the original. Instead I have opted for Alnico rod magnets with dummy screw heads ... I mean who actually <i>needs </i>to adjust a humbucker's magnets ... honestly? I have also included the 'reflector plate' left out in the fender so called reproductions.</span></div>
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<span class="st">Buccaneer in place with a sticky clear film hiding it's virgin shininess mmmmmmmm shiny! Just like the 70s original there is only one string spacing between the bridge and neck versions, so the poles go a little off ... but hey, that looks 'original' and really makes no difference to the output.</span></div>
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Well, back together, and sounding like a Wide Range equipped
guitar ought to. Gone is the smeary, slightly muddy grumble of the reissue
pickup. In its place round, fat, bell like tones that break up well into really musical
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There is one issue that has to be addressed though; the power
and fatness of the Buccaneer WR has shown up the asthmatic and weedy output of
the bridge single coil. Worse than most Fender pickups I have tried, it is
truly scrawny. Mixed together both pickups sound good, but flicking to the
bridge is an exercise in disappointment. I’m judging the bridge resistance <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>output to be about 6/6.5k and it’s not much
surprise that it is marmalised by the mahoosive 11k neck pickup. So … back into
Oily Towers winding dungeon I sidle … methinks an Oil City 'Diesel Tap' with dual
7.5k and 11k outputs should do the trick in the bridge position. Two push pull
pots, one to shunt one of the Buccaneer coils, and one to switch outputs on the
bridge PU. That’ll produce a versatile and punchy instrument from a bit of an ‘also
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As a footnote Buccaneers are available to buy to special order at
the moment. There is a month’s wait, but they are the least expensive WR
replacement on the market …e mail me at <a href="mailto:ash@oilcitypickups.co.uk">ash@oilcitypickups.co.uk </a>for a price and expected delivery date.</div>
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Weasel Power!</div>
Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-13864487298714085622012-10-14T14:20:00.002-07:002012-10-14T14:21:46.336-07:00The Oil City Buccaneer ...Those of you who have followed this blog for a while will know I have been working for some time on getting a Fender Wide Range pickup replacement to market ... well here's the first view of the (nearly) finished pickup: The Oil City Buccaneer ... named in homage to the late Mick Green of the Pirates fame. He was a notable user of a WR equipped Tele, getting some great tones from it.<br />
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This little beastie features non adjustable alnico 5 pole magnets (with dummy screw slots) and proper over sized bobbins, wound to vintage spec with 42awg wire. It comes as standard with four conductor wiring ... and best of all, it should be the least expensive proper sized WR replacement in the market.<br />
Supplies of these will be very limited at first , until I am fully geared up for production, and those showing an early interest will get first dibs! drop me an e mail on <a href="mailto:ash@oilcitypickups.co.uk">ash@oilcitypickups.co.uk</a> for more details. Ashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907810296188431387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4845605033551015631.post-81566066879598067402012-09-07T10:08:00.000-07:002012-09-07T10:08:10.093-07:00Thanks again guys!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On with part four.</div>
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Here we see the new Blitz Spirit neck humbucker nestling in
the rout as I tried the ‘legs’ out for depth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I usually find a couple of snags in any job … and I found one here. The
long legs on the nickel silver base plates fitted in fine, but the clumsy
metric height adjustment screws fitted to most ‘import’ guitars, including the
Vintage <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>won’t fit US/Gibson spec
baseplates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only US spec adjustment
screws I had in stock were<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1” rather
than the vintage Gibbo 1.25”. This means that I won’t be able lower the pickup
enough to clear the strings properly when playing up at the last two frets. Never
mind … I ordered a bunch of the correct screws and resigned myself to living
with a guitar with 20 usable frets till they arrive!</div>
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Back to the rear of the guitar</div>
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I use small loops of tape to hold back the wiring while I
solder other areas. As I have said the compartment is very tight and it’s easy
to melt the insulation on other wires if you don’t clip everything back and
work tidy. The Blitz’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>spirit humbucker
four conductor output wires are the black ones.<br />
And here’s the completed job.<br />
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I’ve insulated the output jack cable with 9mm rayon loom
tape for neatness … and the job’s a good-en!</div>
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Time to plug in and test out: the original Wilkinsons
sounded thick and quite powerful, but with a really ‘clouded’ top end on the
neck pickup sounding ‘soupy’ and poorly defined. The original bridge pickup sounded
a touch thin, with a gritty top end, and overall a bit screechy. The Blitz Spirits
are a cooler wind 7k and 7.9k as opposed to 8.5 and 14k for the Wilkinsons and
have the softer more rounded sounding alnico 2 magnets. Plugged into the clean
channel of my Laney LC30 mk2 the difference was pretty spectacular: even with a
cooler wind and magnets the ‘Spirits’ are subjectively much louder than the Wilkinsons.
Plenty of woody tones are available, and nice sparkling highs available from
both pickups. Hummm now for the acid test … cranked tones … what everyone
judges a Les Paul by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a word ‘smooth’!
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keeping sweet, singing tones that break
up as you dig in is easy … and as the gain gets towards the hard rock/ metal
end, the pickups natural compression flatters your playing nicely.</div>
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The combination of ‘Iced T’s’ weight and vintage style neck
and the Blitz Spirit’s soft, smooth and expressive character makes for a really
nice ‘blues/blues rock LP clone. Quite versatile enough for hard/heavy rock,
but perhaps lacking that scream for the metal end of things. Though I have to
say there is more than a hint of a famous leather top hat wearer when the
pressure is applied!</div>
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I’m very happy … though waiting for the screws to lower the
neck pickup a tad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will post some
sound files as soon as I can.</div>
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The Oil City ‘Blitz Spirit’ set will be available from next
month for around £90 in black or zebra.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguitarweasel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/improving-beasts-vintage-v100-les-paul.html">Part 1</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguitarweasel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/iimproving-beasts-vintage-v100-les-paul.html">Part 2</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguitarweasel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html">Part 3</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theguitarweasel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo_3.html">Part 4 </a></div>
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Right, on with part three of the improving the Vintage
V100s!</div>
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Firstly before starting any work on a nice shiny guitar we
need some protection for the finish. A slipped screwdriver or some stray molten
solder can wreak havoc, so better safe than sorry. There are lots of different
ways of doing this … but mine uses a couple of layers of low-tack 2” masking
tape. It’s easy and fast to apply, protects against most things, and peels
without leaving residue. My workbench has a folded pad of material (some old
red drape – a souvenir from the Royal Albert Hall) to protect the instrument,
and the neck is supported in a foam cradle. </div>
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Right off with the lid to see the rubbish within Iced T’s
innerds</div>
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Not even as pretty as Tobacco’s!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Puny wiring and pigeon-poo soldering … yuck.
The switch compartment was similarly nasty!</div>
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Someone seems to have had a hole drilling party here oddly.
Only three are used to mount the cover!</div>
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First Job: the pots: 500k, 2 logarithmic taper for the
volume, and two linear taper for the tone. Others may argue and say Log for
everything … I quite like log for tone … and it’s my guitar okay?</div>
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I punch some holes in cardboard in the pattern of the
mounting holes in the guitar top and assemble the bulk of the harness on the
bench … NOT IN THE GUITAR! Why? Because there’s bugger all room in a Les Paul
wiring compartment , and the depth of the rout makes it tough to see what you’re
doing at the bottom. Much better out where the dog can see the rabbit!</div>
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Note: I’ve used some cloth insulation stripped off my stock
of ‘hookup’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wire on the capacitor legs.
Belt and braces really … a lot of people wouldn’t bother, but if one of those
legs grounds out to that ‘earth bus’ that links the pots, there’ll be trouble
and things won’t work properly! </div>
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There’s a great deal of bollocks talked about paper in oil
capacitors and how smooth and vintage they sound … mostly it’s talked by those
who want to sell you ‘vintage’ capacitors! Simply get a good cap (in this case
.22uf Sprague Orange Drops) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and save
your money. There is no detectable difference between vintage and modern high
quality caps … end of story.</div>
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Right out come the Wilkinson humbuckers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…</div>
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note the protection for the body</div>
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I’m going to be re wiring with proper, fifties style single
conductor screened cable (Allparts UK) and it will be a tight squeeze getting
it through those wiring tunnels! <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></div>
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Three long lengths go from the switch compartment to the control
compartment … measure thease carefully using the old wiring as a pattern!<br />
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I’m keeping the original switch for the time being … it
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There is an old fifties knack to parting the braid neatly on
this type of cable … my dad was an old fifties engineer and taught me:</div>
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First kink your wire</div>
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Then use your nails or a non-metallic instrument to gently part
the braids on the apex of the ‘kink’</div>
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Then using a small pointed tool - I use an old multi meter
probe - pull the ‘tail' of wire out through your newly made hole </div>
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Like so … lovely and neat … and period correct!</div>
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See you in part 4 where I put it all together!</div>
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<a href="http://www.theguitarweasel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/improving-beasts-vintage-v100-les-paul.html">Part 1</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguitarweasel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/iimproving-beasts-vintage-v100-les-paul.html">Part 2</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguitarweasel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html">Part 3</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theguitarweasel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo_3.html">Part 4 </a></div>
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