David Garner
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Y'all, I have a doozy here. I've already started the process to return it to the Custom Shop for repairing or rewinding, but I'm baffled.
So I install the pickup, get it working great, everything's good. Come back and it's dead. Check the status at the pot and it reads infinity. Pull the pickup, same. Pickup is dead. Cover has never been off, nothing funny like that, so if the coil is nicked, it wasn't me.
But then the craziest thing happens. Come back after a while and it reads normal again.
Is it possible there is a nick on the coil that shorts out after the coil heats up from use? Or from temp changes? I've had dead pickups and I've had live pickups, but I've never had a zombie pickup before. Any thoughts are appreciated.
So I install the pickup, get it working great, everything's good. Come back and it's dead. Check the status at the pot and it reads infinity. Pull the pickup, same. Pickup is dead. Cover has never been off, nothing funny like that, so if the coil is nicked, it wasn't me.
But then the craziest thing happens. Come back after a while and it reads normal again.
Is it possible there is a nick on the coil that shorts out after the coil heats up from use? Or from temp changes? I've had dead pickups and I've had live pickups, but I've never had a zombie pickup before. Any thoughts are appreciated.