Jethro
June 4th, 2012, 03:08 PM
Probably a rather silly question to most of you here, but I've come across a set of supposedly vintage wound strat pickups that if I'm not mistaken have a reverse wound center p/u. None of these have any labeling on them and I am trying to decipher which is which. Can an ohm meter help me with this???
I took a reading on all three and 2 were 5.8 k and both had red and black wires. The third was 5.3 k with white and black wires....I was thinking this would be the bridge but really not sure.
Any suggestion or tips are appreciated
Jethro
June 4th, 2012, 03:27 PM
The more I think about this I wonder if the 5.3 is the reverse wound middle. I read somewhere that a weaker middle p/u helps give the vintage quack in positions 2 and 4???
waparker4
June 4th, 2012, 03:27 PM
Put the pickups face to face and feel the magnetic push or pull. I think the neck and bridge should push apart rather than pull together, but at any rate the bridge/neck will do one thing and the other 2 combinations (bridge/mid or neck/mid) should do the opposite.
Just to clarify, hum canceling needs reverse polarity (what i'm describing) as well as reverse wound.
Deaf Eddie
June 6th, 2012, 03:01 PM
The like-polarity pickup faces will repel, the opposite-polarity pickup faces will attract.
ONE of your pups will attract to both of the others, and that one's your RW/RP middle pup.
Keyser Soze
June 6th, 2012, 03:53 PM
There really is no way for you to actually figure out which direction the coil is wound so, like Eddie says, what you need to do is figure out which pickup has magnetic polarity different from the other two.
Humbucking is achieved through the combined effect of reverse winding and reverse magnetic polarity.
Lazloryder
June 6th, 2012, 06:01 PM
Just a note, original old school pickups weren't reverse wound. All three wound the same. Still got the quack, but no hum canceling.
sjtalon
June 6th, 2012, 06:08 PM
I'm gonna go with white and black being the winner for some reason.
Jethro
June 7th, 2012, 08:22 AM
That makes sense....thanks everyone for your input.
Much appreciated