How to change Pickups

[bubs_42]

From Seymour Duncan the Company. Not noted but I would loosen your strings before clipping them off

[atquinn]

I always re-use my strings; never clip them. With Hamer with TOM's loosening them up enough to swap pickups is easy. Of course, if I was swimming in dough like Mr. Duncan I'd probably clip them.

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Austin

[cynic]

I love playing on new strings and embrace any opportunity to change them...I cut through them at full tension just as in the video.

There's no elasticity so there's no "snap-back".

[bubs_42]

To each their own but, THERE IS NFW I'D JUST CUT THROUGH ALL MY STRINGS! Just saying that is IMHO of course and feel free to do it your own way.

[lincsman]

He is dangerous with that soldering iron !!!!!

[Bennyboy-UK]

I've never heard solder, pronounded sodder... Weird eh?

'A soddering iron'

'What kind of sodder shall we use?'

'I love soddering'

'How much flux is there in this sodder?

Class!

[specialk]

I've never heard solder, pronounded sodder... Weird eh?

Not weird. Welcome to America!

[carfish7]

We don't quite get what a punter is either, unless we're watching NFL, so..........touche!

And waht do they make beer cans out of?

[Bennyboy-UK]

I shall impart knowledge when i've recovered from the shockingly excellent performance today of the GB Olympic team

[jaberwock]

We don't quite get what a punter is either, unless we're watching NFL, so..........touche!

And waht do they make beer cans out of?

Beer cans are made from aluminium in the UK, I believe they're made from an entirely different metal in the US, I'm not sure of the spelling but it's pronounced "alooominum"

[hamerhead]

Speak English, damn Limeys anyways.

[django49]

We don't quite get what a punter is either, unless we're watching NFL, so..........touche!

And waht do they make beer cans out of?

Beer cans are made from aluminium in the UK, I believe they're made from an entirely different metal in the US, I'm not sure of the spelling but it's pronounced "alooominum"

As my shop teacher said back in high school......."Quit f**kin' wit' the amoominum!"

Mr. D looked AND talked like Fred Flintstone........

[wil50n]

I've never heard solder, pronounded sodder... Weird eh?

'A soddering iron'

'What kind of sodder shall we use?'

'I love soddering'

'How much flux is there in this sodder?

Class!

Gives another meaning to "Sod it ! "

[Toadroller]

I've never heard solder, pronounded sodder... Weird eh?

'A soddering iron'

'What kind of sodder shall we use?'

'I love soddering'

'How much flux is there in this sodder?

Class!

Gives another meaning to "Sod it ! "

Sodding on, sodding off.

[bubs_42]

Al-LU-MIN-E-UM, that was drilled into my head my my Metal's Teacher. I stil pronouce it A-LU-MIN-UM.

[jaberwock]

I've never heard solder, pronounded sodder... Weird eh?

'A soddering iron'

'What kind of sodder shall we use?'

'I love soddering'

'How much flux is there in this sodder?

Class!

Gives another meaning to "Sod it ! "

Sodding on, sodding off.

Soldomy "the joining of metals by a fusion of alloys which have relatively low melting points".

[humfree]

I've never heard solder, pronounded sodder... Weird eh?

'A soddering iron'

'What kind of sodder shall we use?'

'I love soddering'

'How much flux is there in this sodder?

Class!

Curious as how one might pronounce this in the UK.. would you be so kind as to give us the proper pronunciation?

You guys really hit that 'L' hard, eh?

Good thing it wasn't a calking video..

[Bennyboy-UK]

Yarp, Sol-der, I shall attempt to find a UK video of soddering-erm, soldering

[RichRS6]

Reminds me of a joke...........

On a tour of a Japanese electronics manufacturing plant someone asks one of the girls on the assembly line what they use for Flux.........

She answers.........

Plix of course !

I'll get my coat.........................

[belgian]

Struggled for 3 hours to change the pickups in my Monaco 3...

[velorush]

Struggled for 3 hours to change the pickups in my Monaco 3...

The photos I find for the Monaco III do not show an access panel for the controls. Is that right? So you're going through the bridge pickup route?

I used the string method on my Gibson semi-hollow, but if you've already taken the pickups out it's too late for that.

The way it's supposed to work is that pulling the controls out of the bridge pickup route pulls the threads through the body. The new controls (or new pickups soldered to the old controls) get pulled back through the holes with the threads.

The other thing I found invaluable was a length of solid 20 ga. wire (insulated to prevent scratches) with a crook bent in the end. This helped to lift wiring up and through the holes when the threads just wouldn't cooperate.

If you've already gotten everything out, you could still try threading string through the holes to pull the controls back into place, but I'd probably just try fishing the harness back into place with a 20 ga. wire tool(s).

[belgian]

The Monaco 3 has a control panel under the switch and it was it in fact pretty simple - but I am so clumsy.

Two left hands.

It has now a set of Rio Grandes (Jazz - Jazz - Bluesbar) that I bought from Kizz. I'll set up the guitar tomorrow....

[seeker]

The american spelling and pronunciation is Aluminum. Unlike solder.

[jaberwock]

The american spelling and pronunciation is Aluminum. Unlike solder.

1807

The English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy underlined the existence of the element arguing that "alum" was the salt of an unknown metal which he said should be called ‘alumium’. The name was respelt as the more pleasant sounding ‘aluminium’ by later scientists.

I guess if you discover it you have the right to spell it the way you wish........ If the English decided to re-spell basket ball " bazkit ball" I figure you guys might have an opinion, or two.

Jaberwock

[Victor (Fret Friend)]

I've never heard solder, pronounded sodder... Weird eh?

'A soddering iron'

'What kind of sodder shall we use?'

'I love soddering'

'How much flux is there in this sodder?

Class!

Aww man! Every US/Canadian soldering vid I've ever seen on YT says sodder...