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The Job - This is an extremely stunning Tom Anderson Hollow-T we had the privilege to work on. This beauty was brought in for a pickup swap.
The originals are stacked coils and the cilent wanted to switch to Tom Anderson TV1 Neck coils for a more vintage Tele-twang. |
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| Unwinding the strings so we can start work on the wiring. |
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| No idea who did the previous wiring job but it didn't look too intuitive so we decided to redo the whole control plate altogether. |
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The candidate for the neck pickup; a Tom Anderson TV1 with a chrome cover.
We had to swap out the chrome cover for a gold one to match the existing hardware. |
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| After removing the chrome cover, we checked the DC resistance to make sure the coils aren't disturbed or broken. |
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| Fitting the gold cover on the pickup. |
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| We had to heat the new cover and re-flow the wax to prevent any squeals or microphonics that may result from the previous step. |
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| Now, onto removing all the existing electronics. |
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| Taking out the old switches and pots. |
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| This is the new set of controls that we wired up, and we tried our best to make it as neat and secure as possible. |
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| Wiring up the pickups and grounding to the control plate. |
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| Pop in the new pickup and control plate and this beauty will be ready for playing! |
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