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Upgrading the stock Casino pickups for a more vintage sound
Among the greatest things about Gibson electric guitars are Gibson pickups. One of the coolest things about Epiphone guitars is that they're almost all made with Gibson body styles and dimensions. That means that with out modifications you can replace your Epiphone pickups with genuine Gibson pickups. The result can be astonishing. Epiphone Casino Coupe (Image credit: Epiphone) The Casino Coupe has been reborn in a smaller ES-339 body size. The updated Casino Coupe also features new Epiphone Dogear P-90T Classic single coil pickups, a Mahogany neck and vintage styled machine heads. For more on Epiphone's updated Casino line, head on over to epiphone.com. Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups - What's inside The first task was to remove the covers and see what's inside. The Epiphone Casino has custom bobbins with a string spacing narrower than a standard P90. The option was to either make new bobbins to match the cover pole spacing or simply use the existing ones.
Creamery - Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups
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I recently ran one of my regular competitions to wind a set of handwound pickups and the winner, Mike, asked whether he could have his Epiphone Casino pickups rewound/upgraded for a more vintage tone - 'No problem', I said. The stock pickups had a very high output, 12.1k in the Bridge & 11.6k in the Neck, an unsubtle set especially for a Hollow Body guitar.
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Take measurements of the pickup height from each string so you can reset it. If the new pickups are different resistances from the current ones you will need to adjust the height to get an even, balanced output between the two pickups. My old tech used to charge $35 for pickup installation and it was an extra $35 on top for having to do a.
Mike wanted to tone them down with a rewind and new magnets.
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Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups - What's inside
Epiphone Casino Change Pickups 2020
The first task was to remove the covers and see what's inside. The Epiphone Casino has custom bobbins with a string spacing narrower than a standard P90. The option was to either make new bobbins to match the cover pole spacing or simply use the existing ones. Mike had no issue with me utilising the existing bobbins so the challenge now was to remove the existing overwound coil wire in such a way as to not nick the sides. Any cuts or scratches to the very thin top & bottom layers of the bobbins could catch on the new coil wire when winding, snapping or pulling it leaving a few thousand turns of coil useless.