Bass VI pickup rewind

[BigRedX]

Any recommendations for someone to rewind one of the pickups on my Squier Bass VI.

 

Got it out of storage where it's been for the last 4 years in a case and discovered that the centre pickup is dead. I don't want to spend a lot of money because I'm not keeping this bass and it cost me less than £250 in the first place, so the rewire cost has to be close to the value it will add when selling with all three pickups working.

 

Thanking you in advance...

[Owen]

http://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/

[BigRedX]

Thanks, I've sent them an email.

[PaulThePlug]

Dead?..

Sure its not just a wire break, where you can undo a wind a re-solder to the eyelet?

Worth a close look.

Edited Thursday at 16:19 by PaulThePlug

[BigRedX]

I can't even get the pickup out of its cover to see, and if it is it'll probably be lead-free solder which I'm not set up for.

[BigRedX]

After watching a YouTube video I managed to open the pickup up. The wires from the coils are attached to the tags. Still reads open circuit. Off for a rewind.

[NancyJohnson]

Voice of reason:

 

Sell it as is, explain the middle pickup is faulty and that the buyer will need to sort it. They're just Stratocaster pickups anyway.

 

You're going to haemorrhage £££ getting it rewound, just stick a £15 Warman in there and swap the cover.  Nobody will know, or be able to, hear any difference.

 

It's simply not worth the expense or hassle.

[BigRedX]

It's costing approximately £30 plus postage for a rewind. I don't have to worry about doing any soldering more fiddly than connecting the flying leads back to the selector switch and it will be re-wound with the correct gauge of wire and to the correct DC resistance as the original pickup. From what I recall when I was using this bass the middle pickup either on it's own or with one of the others was the setting I favoured for most of the bass sounds, so trying to sell the bass without the most important pickup working is likely to knock off more value than the cost of the rewind.