Pickup Leads

Bruce Hamilton · Post by **Bruce Hamilton** » 3 Mar 2003 3:06 pm

I decided to try a couple of humbucking pickups I had sitting around forever and found the leads on both of them to be about two inches too short on my D-10. These pickups are basically 705 clones which happen to sound exceptional. Is it possible to have new leads put on them instead of soldering wire extensions to them? These units appear to be completely sealed so that any prying with a screwdriver etc. might be catastrophic.

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 3 Mar 2003 3:23 pm

I've extended the leads on lots of pickups with good results. I always use heat shrink tubing on the conductors and also over the outside of the splice. This is much easier on steel pickups than it is on some dual coil humbuckers which have 4 conductors and a shield.

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Darvin Willhoite
Riva Ridge Recording

Post by **b0b** » 3 Mar 2003 3:40 pm

Moved to "Electronics" section. Now, if this were about how to play the first few notes of a song, it could have stayed here.