https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/broken-pickup/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:46:48 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/broken-pickup/#post-338768 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:59:32 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/broken-pickup/#post-338768 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/broken-pickup/#post-338766 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:39:58 +0000
I suppose you might mean that you have a single coil pickup guitar, and you're dealing with the bridge pickup, if there are two, including the covered one at the neck.

Well, it's darn near impossible ofor one half of a single coil pickup to work??? :shock: I design my own pickups and electronics and have some experience with their components and construction.

All that I can think of of is that the magnets on the first few poles were installed upside down, or in the case of a ceramic bar magnet beneath the whole thing - you may get this phenomena when the bar magnet becomes unglued from the baseplate, or broken off, and yes!, I have experienced that myself and repaired it.

It could look like this, if intact.

]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Blue Jay https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/broken-pickup/#post-338766 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/broken-pickup/#post-37118 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:37:03 +0000
So: My problem now is that I've got a cheapo Fender Telecaster copy which behaves quite strangely when it comes to the pickup. When playing through an amp, the volume fades downward towards the higher strings, where the low E sounds full and clear, and the low E doesn't make a single sound through the amp at all. The loss of sound begins at the D-string.

From my knowledge of guitars at least, this seems to be a problem with the pickup. It's a single pickup guitar, and I don't know what kind of pickup it is, but it looks kind of like this one: http://www.ocduffpickups.com/pickups/numberone.jpg, but without the visible coil.

Does anyone of you have an idea of what the problem might be? I removed the pickup from the guitar and see no problems with it when it comes to wiring and such. I'd be grateful for any help and I'm not afraid to take anything apart. Thank you!]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance scarless https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/broken-pickup/#post-37118