Changing Pickups In A 335 Style Guitar

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Changing Pickups In A 335 Style Guitar - Part 1

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In this video Studio Rat James Ivey takes his, now vintage Epiphone Sheraton (Gibson 335 copy) to Steve at Guitar Lodge in Suffolk, for some much needed TLC and a new set of Iron Gear pickups.
In this, part 1 of 2 Steve shows us how to remove the old pickups and wiring to make for an easier replacement. Tricks of the trade will follow.
You can find out more about Guitar Lodge at: www.guitarlodg...
and also check out Iron Gear pickups: www.irongear.co...
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.

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@keithklassen5320 Жыл бұрын

Just for the sake of clarity for the newbies: they talk about coil *tapping*, but they really mean coil *splitting*; not the same thing, but lots of otherwise well-informed people talk about them like they are the same. Coil splitting is taking a humbucker and only using one of the two coils it has, making it sound like a single-coil pickup. Coil tapping is actually fairly rare. A tapped coil can be a humbucker or a single-coil; to simplify it, let's talk about a tapped single-coil. The pickup has an input wire, a certain number or windings on the bobbin, then a wire out, then more windings, and then another wire out. You can choose between more or less windings that way, which makes the pickup more or less "hot". That's your pedantry for the day!

@bluesdude1194 2 жыл бұрын

I have both pickups in a Harley Benton CS24, a fantastic upgrade.

@billy1858 2 ай бұрын

got a guitar with steve at the moment for a refret ,brilliant bloke whos done some great setups and repairs for me.

@michaelmachado2049 2 жыл бұрын

Loving the video so far. Thanks.

@maxpower975 6 ай бұрын

The most helpful video I ever found. thanks for sharing

@TheStudioRats 6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@andypadman9350 2 жыл бұрын

Great to see behind the scenes at Guitarlodge.

@JuddLofthouse 3 ай бұрын

Great stuff thanks for this 👍

@bpy4073 2 жыл бұрын

Steve is a great guy i take all my guitars to him for setups .Me Ipswich.

@margaretzabinski9977 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the info

@Michaelobama184 4 ай бұрын

I have a pair of Seymour Duncan pickups that I want to put into my Firefly Hollowbody guitar

@christyrpak4378 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Would love to know his soldering iron temp setting.

@Michael777Simmons 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks 😊

@irock4u222 11 күн бұрын

not sure thats what i would use to protect the finish..yikes pretty risky

@davidmeinertdecrepidude Жыл бұрын

IMHO you should have gone to CTS pots as soon as you discarded following the original loom.

@jeffberg8015 2 жыл бұрын

"I've never known anyone to coil tap a 335." Ummm... Epiphone has offered coil tapped options for much of their line up. I own an Epi ES 335 Pro that is coil tapped.

@WonkeyWabbit 2 жыл бұрын

Gibson 335s had a coil tap switch for quite a while in the 70s. I've seen references to it from 1973 to 1979 and played a friend's one that had it. The switch was on the lower horn.

@tomrivans9102 Жыл бұрын

I would fully cover the front of the guitar before any work starts. Any burrs and tiny bits of metal easily scratch the surface as i have found out from my last pick up fit. That is not acceptable.

@TheWGLOVER 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it easier just to splice the new pickup wires onto the old ones?

@FuzzyJohn Жыл бұрын

It might be (as a last resort), unless you want to replace other components as well. Cleaner job.

@bsbrooks455 2 жыл бұрын

NIce upgrade, but not sure why you didn't put in push/pull pots and set up coil tapping as long as the guitar was already apart. $10.00 in additional parts and you have the best of both worlds. The pickup manufacturer wired them with 4 wire leads for a reason.

@TheStudioRats 2 жыл бұрын

It’s funny, James and I had that conversation and agreed if it’s a “335” it should be a 335. But totally get the reason why James should have done it.

@davidallen346 11 ай бұрын

I'd rather have this nice silver hair guitar tech chap to do the pickup swapping job on my semi hollow guitar instead of doing it myself and get into the panic hissy sweaty mode