FS P-Rails bridge, a few left over pickups

Alegree · October 2019

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Cream Seymour Duncan P rails bridge (trembucker) (top right)
One of the coils died, I've rewound it to original spec. Not sure if the white/black wires are the correct way around, if not all they need is to be swapped over in the wiring cavity. £50

Everything else handwound in the UK with standard Alegree lifetime warranty to original purchaser.

Custom (very bright) soapbar P90 (top left, choose black or cream cover)
Someone ordered a humbucker sized P90 for a middle position to sound like a bridge position - I made a normal soapbar P90 accidentally. It's low output and made with 41 awg wire and alnico 5 magnets. Very bright, bridging the gap between Charlie Christian and P90. 6k resistance. £45

Heat Wave bridge humbucker (b stock) (bottom left, have 4 of these with shiny nickel or chrome cover - marks are just finger prints, the covers are spotless) 17k hot rodded humbucker with roughcast alnico 5 magnet
Full description here https://www.alegree.co.uk/collections/humbucker-sized-pickups/products/heat-wave
Made for a customer, bobbin cracked in the heat of the wax. Only a cosmetic issue, still works perfectly. Stuck a (shiny) nickel cover on it, so the issue is invisible. £60

Alnico rod humbucker sized P90 (b stock) (bottom right)
7k humbucker sized P90 with alnico 2 rod magnets, uncovered with black bobbin. It was originally covered, but it fell out of the cover in the wax and the bobbin contracted making the string spacing closer to 49mm than the original 50mm - therefore not fitting. Going to be in the vintage-hot Strat tone vein. £55

Funkfingers · October 2019

Alegree said:

P rails bridge trembucker ... One of the coils died ... Not sure if the white/black wires are the correct way around

White and black conductors are for the "Rail" coil.

By SD convention, black = coil start, white = coil finish. Thus, black is hot, white and red form the series/split link and green would be ground. (The bare screen drain wire is permanently grounded.)

In any circuit with P-Rails coil permutation switching, the link between the white and red occurs at the mode switch, push-pull pot or Triple Shot mounting surround.

HTH

Alegree · October 2019

Funkfingers said:

Alegree said:

P rails bridge trembucker ... One of the coils died ... Not sure if the white/black wires are the correct way around

White and black conductors are for the "Rail" coil.

By SD convention, black = coil start, white = coil finish. Thus, black is hot, white and red form the series/split link and green would be ground. (The bare screen drain wire is permanently grounded.)

In any circuit with P-Rails coil permutation switching, the link between the white and red occurs at the mode switch, push-pull pot or Triple Shot mounting surround.

HTH

Are you referring to the black/white as the 4 conductor ones, or the ones directly wired to the coil? Very good information, thanks.

Funkfingers · October 2019

I refer to the colour codes within the 4-conductor + shield output cable.

For the Rail coil, I would expect the start and finish connections to be white to white and black to black.

Alegree · October 2019

Funkfingers said:

I refer to the colour codes within the 4-conductor + shield output cable.

For the Rail coil, I would expect the start and finish connections to be white to white and black to black.

Thank you, I'll take a look inside and see if I can work out if I got it the correct way around.

Alegree · October 2019

And remarkably the replacement Heat Wave I've made has developed exactly the same issue, now there's two available...

Alegree · October 2019

Photos finally added.

Alegree · October 2019

Upon closer inspection, I believe the connections on the P rails P90 side are back to front. I believe it will have to be wired with the green and red reversed.

Alegree · November 2019

These are still available. They shouldn't be at these silly prices.

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