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I'm all done! It was insanely easy, perhaps easier than the bridge pickup. I didn't want to use solvents if I didn't have to so I opted to try to score the glue lines with an exacto knife, gradually working my way under the magnet. I thought the magnet was a rigid, stone-like material so I didn't ...

Yeah I'm sure I'm over-thinking it - I tend to do that on something I'm trying for the first time. Plus I love my Ric and don't want to screw it up. Mainly I wanted to have the mental concept solid, and you've done that very well. In summary, it sounds like reverse winding (RW) means switching the ...

So after looking over some info and a great tutorial, yours, I've come up with four critical points I need to confirm:

1) The pickup bobbin remains in its original orientation - the poles that were under E,A,D, and G strings will remain that way after the conversion.

2) The magnet also remains ...

Well I'm going to give it a shot. I'll do ample research in advance, and am proceeding carefully. I'm documenting with lots of notes and photos as I go, so if I pull it off I'll have a great tutorial for everyone out there who wants to try the same. Since I have a new neck PU assembly on the way ...

Since hum on my stock 4003 can be an issue, especially when I try to apply any amount of distortion, I'd really like to try RWRP. But the only references or procedures I find are for the bridge pickup where the magnet is not glued. Since I'm going to a double neck pickup configuration, the RWRP will ...

Yeah just looking at it, it looked like a potential nightmare to try to shoehorn the chrome ring on the original bridge pickup. So for economy and sanity I'll double up on the neck assembly. Hopefully it won't be too tame. I was thinking about mounting it maybe a half inch closer to the bridge to ...

That's good information... thanks! It sounds like my plan might work. Please indulge me while I explain my plan. I want to remove the big cavernous chrome plate around the bridge pickup and build a pickguard that houses the bridge pickup the same way as the neck pickup. To do so I would need to ...

Sorry if this has been asked, and it probably has. I can't seem to locate a thread on the topic. Are the neck and bridge pickups the same, aside from the hardware mounting configuration? If they are not the same, what are the differences? Thanks!

Thanks for the welcome - and the ideas! For the standard model Rich-E-Split box I chose plastic for a couple of reasons: 1) since it is not a "stomp box" with foot-activated switches or controls, it doesn't get stepped on much. I have mine velcro-ed to my pedal board in the corner away from the foot ...

I appreciate the feedback, as well as the criticism. I agree, the Rich-E-Split box isn't the answer for everyone. If you have the patience and ability to build your own it's one way to go, and also splitter cables are an option. With the original Rick-O-Sound box no longer available, short of an ...