Vintage Reissue Higains anyone?

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P.S. two: can you guess what those bobbins were fashioned from?...
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Looks like from The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" vinyl LP. I see a few grooves near the pole pieces. I need to stick a needle to it and make sure! He He...Image
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Well, bingo! Not from a Byrds long-player though.
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I'm just messin' with you Sergio. You already told me earlier what you made them from.

BTW, how hot did you wind them? I'm guessing less than 7.4K.
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That's right. Around 6.8 K.
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Thank You Sergio.
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Here is a close up of a 1970 high gain from Elys' 4001:
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Cool! Looks like it's bobbin is cardboard or fiberboard. Reminds me of the bottoms of vintage fisher price toys.
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Wow, Pete, that's a gorgeous photo you took! You have both a very good camera, and a true artist's eye for composition Image

Rickenbacker 21-fretter courtesy of John Hall and Electro...
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Sérgio, is that the late-sixties "phenolic" material in the hi-gain bobbin? It does not look like "record vinyl" in this photo.
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That's G-10 mil spec glass filled epoxy printed circuit board material- just about indestructible.

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Hey, thanks, John. "Just about indestructible". I'll say!
Elys, the treble pickup originally on my November '70 21 fretter looked exactly like that. Currently it's safely tucked away in my "Rick parts drawer".
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We used this single-layer glass-filled epoxy for RF circuit boards in VHF radios for years. Only a two-sided circuit board, so you could do plated-through bridges front-to-back easily on the wave-soldering machine. John is right, this stuff takes a lot of soldering iron abuse, much stronger than plain old brown phenolic perf board.
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