rewinding pickups

nighthawk · Post by **nighthawk** » Sunday Dec 11, 2005

any good sugestions on getting some pickups rewound. i got a gibson nighthawk and to my knowledge no one makes a replacement for them. mine have started to squeal a good bit and i would like to get them fixed up back to as close to orrigonal as possible.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Sunday Dec 11, 2005

If memory serves, thats the crazy Les Paul shaped guitar that had 3 different pickups. The angled bridge pickup is the only one not available commercially. If its just squealing, you may only need to pot it. Double-boil some wax beads from WalMart and dip the pickup in the melted wax and that should get rid of the microphonics.

If you really want to get them rewound, the Seymour Duncan custom shop and Bill Lawrence will do that for about $200 per pickup.

nighthawk · Post by **nighthawk** » Sunday Dec 11, 2005

yup thats the guitar only mine is one of the ones with two hum pickups. ive tried the wax idea but it made no differece. i figure a rewind will take care of what ever the problem is.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Thursday Dec 15, 2005

Duncan has 4 different pickups for the mini humbucker in the neck. The Firebird Antiquity II and 3 mini humbuckers under "specialty".

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/a ... l#firebird

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/s ... .shtml#sm1

Dimarzio also has two mini-humbucker models under "mini".

http://www.dimarzio.com/

As for the bridge pickup, you'll probably have to send it out.