The Team will be complete.

[ozzbike]

Ha ha Lyrebird... very cool OZ very cool

Tad cheeky hey. 😀

[ozzbike]

Weirdy....Scotty....oh he who haunts the threads.

You know me....can’t be straight and boring with tonal options.

I don’t know what sort of sound the Mini Humbuckers bring.....actually I am sitting in my Uber car and can’t even tell you if they have four wires to each pickup.

Buuuutttt......if they do.....

Can I wire these pickups.....humbucker....click.....front coil....back coil....parallel coils....series coils....parallel neck to bridge pickups.....series neck to bridge pickups.

The body has large box type toggle switch on the lower front bout.....2 volume 2 tone and jack on the rear lower bout.

So that gives me four push pulls....nice huh.

Can I trouble you for some thoughts in a diagram.....I promise to look at the pickups when I get home....hoping they have four wires.

Thanks thanks thanks thanks. Love this stuff. 😀

[WeirdBits]

I was wondering how long it would take you to ask. The PBG bass mini hums used to only be two wire, so check them and let me know and we’ll work something out.

[ozzbike]

Home after a day in the Uber car. TOPVENEER have been awesome with their postage and my veneers have arrived. I got heaps of them and the veneer tape. The light coloured veneer in one of the pics is the one to make tail feathers with I think. Looks great.

https://www.topveneer.com.au/product...ry-mix-0-75kg/

https://www.topveneer.com.au/product...e-20mm-x-200m/

Sad face moment.....dragged the pickups out and they are one cable with two cores.....bugger. So not really much electronic fun here for you Weirdy. Sorry. Unless you have some evil thoughts with a twist.

Can I ask? Which is the neck pickup.....yellow or red wired one? Does anybody know?

[Bakersdozen]

Neck pup "should" have a longer wire...

[wazkelly]

And higher impedance.

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[Simon Barden]

The wiring diagram indicates red=bridge, yellow=neck. But it's worth checking the DC resistances with a multimeter just to make sure. As Waz says, the bridge should be higher resistance, indicating more turns of wire to compensate for a lower string vibration amplitude at the bridge, compared to the neck position.

[ozzbike]

Great advice. Thanks guys...I shall drag the multi meter out this afternoon and see what we have.

The wiring diagrams do have the yellow to neck and red to bridge....just checking in.

Any idea what sort of resistance is the norm for Mini Humbuckers?

This fellow in Melbourne hand winds and makes his own traditional style firebird pickups.

https://mrfabulous.com.au/FIREBIRD%20GUITAR%20PICKUP

[ozzbike]

I just measured the resistance on the pickups.

The red wired one shows 8.28k ohms.

The yellow wired one shows 8.65k ohms.

Their does not appear to be much of a difference, but the neck pickup (yellow wire) does have a higher resistance.

Interesting numbers though. I did some wandering around Seymour Duncan website....and the resistance numbers on some of theirs run to 16.7k...wow.

But all of the have lower output neck pickup resistance....down to 6k.

[ozzbike]

I have been watching some You Tube videos on marquetry and had a giggle to myself.

A couple of the videos referred to using CARBON PAPER to allow the design to be copied/transferred to the veneer as you trace the design.

Nearly wet myself laughing. I have not used carbon paper in years....yet alone seen any. Wow.

I remember typing on white typing paper with four sheets of typing paper and three sheets of carbon paper on a manual typewriter.

Where do I get carbon paper now? Ha ha ha.