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Dang...Fender D8 has a bad pickup...
Posted: 27 Nov 2013 3:42 pm
by Michael Lester
Took the Fender I posted about earlier to my Tech because the back neck wasn't working...the neck switch was blue with corrosion and 'battery dust' (looks like the stuff from a bad car battery)...
Got everything working - and then discovered that the right hand pickup on the back neck is dead.
Anyone have one for sale?...have experience with a re-winder? or replacement source?
We hot-wired the remaining pickup to insure that it works - and it does...
(Like going to Doc for a flu shot and learning that you also have a variation of incurable halitosis that you never knew you had.)
Thanks for your help...
Michael
Posted: 27 Nov 2013 6:11 pm
by Tom Snook
I have a set oof Duncan Antiquity StringMaster PUs.
Wil PM you after Big Band Night on X Factor.
Posted: 27 Nov 2013 11:11 pm
by Dale R Stiles
Sorry to hear that Michael.
I've heard good things about the Antiquity replacement pickups, but make sure you replace with the right one. They come in a neck and bridge and they're wound and polarized different. As Stephen was explaining, those are wound and paired together to give you a humbucker.
Posted: 28 Nov 2013 4:21 am
by Tom Snook
No worries,the bridge pu has black and white wires and the neck has black and yellow wires.
Pickup repare or replace
Posted: 28 Nov 2013 1:39 pm
by Bob Gibler
Michael, I don't know what you have decided to do about the Pickup you are having trouble with. But If you want to use the original PU. Try having it rewound by someone who knows exactly what to do in a timely manor. I know that there are many guy's out there doing this But, My suggestion is Curtis Novak.
He does a fabulous job. and you will be able to reuse your original PU. It can be wound with the same Diameter of motor lead wire it originally had, or you can have it TWEAKED...His Web Address is
http://curtisnovak.com/index.shtml 
Fender D8 Pickups
Posted: 28 Nov 2013 2:42 pm
by Michael Lester
Thanks everyone...I'm going to buy and install the set that Tom Snook has...I'll hold on to the originals...
Michael
Posted: 28 Nov 2013 4:14 pm
by Tom Snook
That sounds like a plan,PM me your info and we can make it happen.
Happy Holidays
Posted: 1 Dec 2013 10:38 pm
by George Keoki Lake
A few years back I was facing the same sitution on my T-3 Custom Fender...two p/u's worked, the third was stone-dead.
I'm not certain if Jason Lollar is still
building or repairing dead Fender p/u's. Jason did mine ... great job.
You might want contact him to see if he is still doing this kind of work ?
Strange thing about Fender p/u's...they go dead with little or no warning. Yet I have a number of steels which are many years older than my 1966 Fender T-3 Custom and have never experienced this dead p/u problem from any of them !
Posted: 2 Dec 2013 1:13 am
by Dave Bader
Be aware! I have had to alter the flatware on the Lollar and Duncan replacement pickups in order to get them to fit the existing pickup cover. Neither manufacturer offeres a cover so you may have to do this yourself.
Fender Stringmaster Pickups Replaced
Posted: 21 Dec 2013 12:28 pm
by Michael Lester
...a bit of follow-up...replaced both original pickups on the rear neck today with Seymour Duncan Antiquity... they fit perfectly. Plastic covers slid on without any special re-working...
Work like they're supposed to and sound fine...
$125 for both through Guitar Center...
Michael