Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Sérgio overwound a pair of toasters for me, one at 14K and one at 15K, as well as a 12K. The pickups arrived yesterday, and I soldered them in this afternoon. I installed two of the pickups in my MG 360 WB, placing the overwound 14K in the bridge, and the 12K in the neck. They sound Fantastic! Thanks Sérgio!

I plan on installing the overwound 15K toaster in the bridge position of either my 381/6, or else in my AZ 360 WB-not sure which guitar I want to install the pickup in. I've been itching to play the WBs a bit more often, as they're lighter, but I'd broken both HG pickups in the MG WB while trying to put toaster covers on them(yes, I followed instructions-obviously not too well), so I was out that guitar, and the AZ WB has also been out of commission with a dead bridge toaster, so I'd soldered in an early HB1, but it sometimes squeals at live volume with the distortion pedal engaged, and this is with a foam base on both pickups. Sérgio managed to rewind the pickup to 11.5K for me, but I'm not sure if I want to use it in the bridge position, or use something hotter.

On another note, how are neck and bridge high gain pickups different from each other?

Anytime, Paul.
"How are neck and bridge high-gains different from each other?"? Polepiece pitch is tighter on neck ones.

I did some recording yesterday with my MG 360 WB, using the 14k overwound bridge toaster Sérgio made. I ran the guitar into my upgraded/modded TS9DX on the classic TS9 setting(modded to TS808 spec), going straight into my Alnico bulldog speaker-equipped AC30 TB, rather than the CC2X. The sound was awesome-pure power pop! Fantastic job Sérgio!! Woo Hoo!! Thanks again!

Hey, you're perfectly welcome, Paul.