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Pickup wiring question

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:44 pm
by hamo
There's a SD 59 on TM at the mo:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instrume ... 076631.htm

The seller states that he's selling cheap because there's a join in the cable, but that it doesn't have an effect on the sound. Is that likely to be the case? What would be he pitfalls of buying a pup with wiring like this, and is there a cheap and effective way to remedy it if it does prove to be a problem?

Re: Pickup wiring question

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:56 pm
by danrawkz
provided the join was connected properly/well soldered, I don't see what the difference would be

Re: Pickup wiring question

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:09 pm
by TMG 03
Bargin really.

Re: Pickup wiring question

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:09 pm
by mr_sooty
Seems like it's just been cut and then fixed up. No drama. even if it was a crappy join, it would be easy enough to make a better one. I'd say it's a good buy.

Re: Pickup wiring question

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:15 pm
by Kerchang
Excellent buy.

Re: Pickup wiring question

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:14 pm
by rocklander
hard to tell with these eyes and those pics, but it looks like they've added some potentially non-shielded cable to some braid-shielded stuff at the start. no drama I guess cos it's a humbucker, but you never know.. easy enough to shield it too...(since you're in I.T. you can score a bunch of it off the VGA cables in the back of all those CRTs you're throwing out constantly).

Re: Pickup wiring question

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:14 pm
by hamo
Cheers guys.