Any pickup doctors in the house?

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notCardio

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Surgeons, to be exact.

I've got a '70s DiMarzio Super Distortion that I love. Someone (not me) put it in an early Fender MusicMaster II. It was in there when I bought the guitar in the mid-'70s.

Anyway, they installed it using caveman methods (like a wood chisel) and in the process, cut off the pickups legs.

Is there anyway to put legs back on the pickup, so that I could use it in something else?
 
If you want to send it to me, I can probably fix it for you. Do those have a brass baseplate?
 
CMunch said:
STEWMAC.COM : Humbucker Baseplate
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Thanks for the link. I think I'd have to have someone else do it, as I suck at soldering, but at least now I know it's do-able.

I wonder what the potential is for screwing up the sound of the pickup. It's just that it's pretty much perfect for what I wanted as it is, and being that old, I worry about what could go wrong.
 
Not all of the super d's are the same. The stewmac baseplate likely wont work for you. I think the older ones like yours have a brass plate. The pole screws don't extend through it. A new plate could be pretty easily made from some sheet brass like what is available from a hobby store, or new legs soldered on to yours. As long as the materials are similar it shouldn't make any difference in tone. With any pickup that is that old there is some risk disassembling it, but if it's in nice shape there shouldn't be a problem.
 
hell ...... if you're handy you could probably rig up something and simply glue it on with JB Weld.
Then you don't have to dismantle the p'up.

I'd take that Stew Mac plate ....... cut the ends off leaving enough to glue to the bottom of the p'up and JB Weld it on.
It'd work fine and would never come off if you clean it well so it'll make a good join.
 
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