Barnsey's RCM-1

[Simon Barden]

I'd certainly sand those surfaces down so there's fresh wood for the glue to adhere to. It's the cellulose in the wood that it bonds to, so the new glue doesn't want to be applied on top of old glue.

[Adam Barnes]

Re glued the neck hopefully it works this time. Made some flatwork for te pickup bobbins

[Wayne.Mumford]

Fingers crossed Adam,hope all goes well. The pick up covers look sensational.
Wayno.

[Adam Barnes]

Pickup wire and alnico5 magnets turned up but snaped the timber flat work fitting the magnets, going to make some with the grain the other way

[Adam Barnes]

Take 2 on the bobbins and it all worked now to work out how im going to wind them

[Simon Barden]

Don't forget to drill any mounting holes before you do any wire winding. You'll need them to fix the bobbins on whatever going-round mechanism you plan to use.

And have the wire reel on the floor, so the wire just runs up from it. Don't put the reel on a horizontal spool so that the wire also rotates the reel. The extra tension can break the very thin wire.

[Adam Barnes]

Ive pulled apart the kit pickups this morning and theve used the covers as a wax pot they were full to the top with wax when i heated up the solder joint, the wax was holding everything in place. Very interesting as I've never pulled one apart before

[Andyxlh]

So i tightened the strings up a bit 2 nights ago and wamo it broke its back its like there's no glue wich is weird maybe the glue was a bit old.
While ive got the neck out im going to give the pickup making a go, ive orderd some 43 awg wire and alnico 5 slug magnets shouold be an intersting project
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Great news that you got it out with no damage. The glue that Adam supplies seems to work really well, I have it in the RCA bass kit and the neck hasn't moved in 2 years, there's a lot of tension on that bass neck too!

[Adam Barnes]

Still needs a bit if work with a file

[Wayne.Mumford]

Looking good Barnsley, better you than me building your own pick ups. Thank goodness the neck came out cleanly.
Wayno.