![]() You can see his solder tab like he used on the L-500 bobbins. He did al those 70's epoxy filled pickups for Gibson. You know those are a Bill Lawrence design. Nice work Clint! I've seen photos of the insides, but never taken apart. That epoxy looks more like good ole PC-7 than potting epoxy. And how does laying the coils on their side affect the sound of the pickup?Īnd why the oversized baseplate and cover? They didn't want the pickup to look skinny?Īmazing work Clint, these suckers better sound like the voice of god when you're done done with them.Īny clues in there as to what killed the first coil? This is where things could go very badly if you're not used to working slow and steady. I see this stuff used as spacers in a lot of 70's Gibson pickups.Īs you can see the epoxy is soaked into the coil so stripping the bobbin is no easy matter. See the steel blade pole running through the bobbins now? The white plastic bit is just there to keep the blade in place. but they will break if you over do it.įinally the epoxy lets go enough to remove the bobbins. Once I get a crack or two started I can work that with some tools. epoxy is brittle and will not flex with the bobbins. at this stage I simply try to gently flex the bobbins in my hands. ![]() I'd like it to be as thin as possible before I start trying to work it so. see the picture in post 11? The epoxy on the bottom of the bobbins is a little more than 1/16" think. Winds pickups: doesn't afraid of anything. Haha, I guess there are a lot of repair-people out there thinking: "Can't sleep, epoxy'll eat me!".įortunately there's Clint Searcy. there is no reason to toss these pickups when they fail. So if you're gentle, persistent and a little bit crafty. It also doesn't stick well to the nylon bobbins. The epoxy didn't stick to the base plates well. Just toss them in the trashīut the Thunder Bird is a little different. The V2, the Ripper bass, The Grabber bass, The Marauder and many others from this time used so much epoxy to sell the pickups that they are considered disposable should they fail. Gibson used Epoxy on lot's of it's mid and late 70's designs. Maybe now you can see the good fortune of the specific set of circumstances surrounding the mid 70's Thunder Bird. lets pull that sand cast Gibson magnet out. Then I work a small screw driver into the gap and work it down the length of the pickups. the epoxy doesn't stick real,well to the base plate so all I do if gently flex the base plate a bit until I get a small gap between the epoxy and the side of the base plate. So now you're saying."How's he gonna get the epoxy out? Is he going to melt it with a hot knife?. Heat doesn't really seem to bother it at all. Tell us more about that epoxy's resistance to heat when you get a chance. Those are pretty narrow bobbins, are they wound with 43awg. The base plate is nonferrous and does not effect the magnetic fiend. Greg, people hear Epoxy and they just run.Īnd is the magnet only half as wide as the coils?ĭoes the base plate reflect the magnetic field too, or is that just for a spacer on the sides? I was just trying to figure out how these worked, and there you opened one up for us. And is the magnet only half as wide as the coils? (Is there another magnet under that one below the blade?) And does the base plate reflect the magnetic field too, or is that just for a spacer on the sides? Wow, so he was just flat out refused? Surely somewhere would have given him a ridiculously expensive quote at least? I can't believe he wouldn't have been able to find someone on his side of the pond with the guts to take on the challenge! Doesn't all that Epoxy make you want to run out of the shop screaming and put on a dress and cry like a little girl?" There is a steel blade pole that conducts the south pole of the magnetic field through the coils ![]() Have you figured out what you're looking at yet? The coils are turned on their sides and the magnet runs down the middle of them with it's north pole facing up. ![]() They run a little north of 10K each for a total of 20+K when it's all said and done. Turns out only one of the coils was dead. Gibson just drizzled epoxy on them to hold all the parts in place and keep them from rattling but the stuff has such an infamous reputation that most pickup guys won't even try to take on this job. These pickups are not totally sealed in epoxy. ![]() All of them said his quest was in vain.įinally out of desperation he sent the pickup to me cause I'm made of Magic! no?" Paolo called shops in Germany and France and England and Spain. He carried his bass all over Italy asking repair shops if they could help him. The pickup in his 1976 Gibson Thunder Bird Anniversary model was dead. ![]()
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