Peter Green Pickup Mod

[Bflat5]

This is the Peter Green pickup mod, submitted by jacksoncsplayer.































I tried to get these pics in order and had no one to take them for me while I was working so I did the best I could to show you what I did.

1. You may want to remove pickup from guitar completely but that is a bit more work. You also should probably get a soft rag and protect the surface of your guitar while working on it, this is my beater LP and I was careful. Had to take pics with one hand to show what I did so these will give you a general idea of what you need to do.

2. You have to work slowly and carefully as not to damage any of the windings or you could ruin the pickup. The solder welds have to be broken open after heating them up, but don't melt the bobbins.

3. Carefully pry off the cover if you need to, but be careful not to break a wire.

4. You need to loosen the screws to get the magnet to slide out, but do not take them all the way out or things will start falling apart.

5. On my pickup I had to completely unscrew the pole pieces as they were screwed through the bobbin and into the base. Bobbin would not lift up unless they were almost all the way out.

6. Once you can push the bobbins up you will be able to get magnet to slide out. I used a scalpel style exacto knife between the end of the magnet and the base to pop it loose. Then I used a pair of needle nose pliers to gently pull it out. I marked top and end. Then removed it and rotated the magnet end for end 180 degrees but did not flip it over. This is the magnetic equivalent of reversing the polarity.

7. After magnet is slid back in, push down bobbins and tighten screws up in back of plate. Screw back in all the adjustable pole pieces through the bobbin and into the base plate.

8. Put cover back on, don't pinch any wires. Resolder the welds on back that hold on cover.

9. I also rotated the entire pickup around when I mounted it back into the guitar. That is how Greenie did it and hey, maybe it will give it a little more Mojo.

10. I put a fresh set of ernie ball regular slinkys 10-46 back on and tried the top wrap this time. Not sure if I like the way the strings take a sharp bend as they come out of the hole and back over the stop tail piece?