'New' Offset Restored Day

[StrummersOfThunder]

Looks awesome J...well done!
Really nice sunburst isn't it
Also that truss rod adjustment access is great right?!
Is it a vintage radius ?
I LOVE that headstock

Can you tell me aittle about the pickups? Output ? Would you say they are 'fender jag' sounding ?

Thanks

[AiRdAd]

Did you just rewind the pickup? or did you have to more to it?

I had the original cover but the pickup in it was very low output and not original. So I built a new one from scratch... thought I posted it on "what's on your workbench". Will check and update.

thanks. I probably saw it, but didn't make the connection. it's great that you went to the effort of doing the pickup.

[Jay]

Did you just rewind the pickup? or did you have to more to it?

I had the original cover but the pickup in it was very low output and not original. So I built a new one from scratch... thought I posted it on "what's on your workbench". Will check and update.

thanks. I probably saw it, but didn't make the connection. it's great that you went to the effort of doing the pickup.

No, I didn't post it. Will put some pics in this thread tonight.

[AiRdAd]

I had the original cover but the pickup in it was very low output and not original. So I built a new one from scratch... thought I posted it on "what's on your workbench". Will check and update.

thanks. I probably saw it, but didn't make the connection. it's great that you went to the effort of doing the pickup.

No, I didn't post it. Will put some pics in this thread tonight.

thanks, that's great

[Jay]

Looks awesome J...well done!
Really nice sunburst isn't it
Also that truss rod adjustment access is great right?!
Is it a vintage radius ?
I LOVE that headstock

Can you tell me aittle about the pickups? Output ? Would you say they are 'fender jag' sounding ?

Thanks

Thanks Mr SoT. The truss rod access is superb. Radius a straight 7.25 inch me thinks. Headstock is cool and not sure why Yamaha discontinued it. In fact, both the SG-2 and SG-3 were only made for a year starting somewhere in 1966.

Both models are snapped up pretty quickly when they appear for sale in Japan.

Re the single coil pickups:
Neck pickup original and measuring 9.35 kiloohm. Full grunty sound without getting muddy imo.
I know the original bridge pickup is the same DC resistance as the neck. When I played a fully original one some time ago I preferred the neck over the bridge.
Anyway, the bridge pickup I made follows identical construction as the original. I used AWG43 but have no idea what Yamaha used. DC resistance 7.4kOhm. My bridge pickup sounds pretty good but I am no single coil connoisseur.

You are welcome to try it out next time you are over or wait for Slowy's verdict once he has put it through the wringer


Edit, absolutely no noise, whole cavity shielded

[StrummersOfThunder]

Looks awesome J...well done!
Really nice sunburst isn't it
Also that truss rod adjustment access is great right?!
Is it a vintage radius ?
I LOVE that headstock

Can you tell me aittle about the pickups? Output ? Would you say they are 'fender jag' sounding ?

Thanks

Thanks Mr SoT. The truss rod access is superb. Radius a straight 7.25 inch me thinks. Headstock is cool and not sure why Yamaha discontinued it. In fact, both the SG-2 and SG-3 were only made for a year starting somewhere in 1966.

Both models are snapped up pretty quickly when they appear for sale in Japan.

Re the single coil pickups:
Neck pickup original and measuring 9.35 kiloohm. Full grunty sound without getting muddy imo.
I know the original bridge pickup is the same DC resistance as the neck. When I played a fully original one some time ago I preferred the neck over the bridge.
Anyway, the bridge pickup I made follows identical construction as the original. I used AWG43 but have no idea what Yamaha used. DC resistance 7.4kOhm. My bridge pickup sounds pretty good but I am no single coil connoisseur.

You are welcome to try it out next time you are over or wait for Slowy's verdict once he has put it through the wringer


Edit, absolutely no noise, whole cavity shielded

Quite a big difference between the neck and bridge in terms of resistance..how well do they balance ?
Id love to try it.
Always a sucker for an offset , and love two single coil set up that hasn't been poluted by a strat set up aka the middle pickup of why
Lastly, I've always rated that Yamaha trem design. The roller bridge is a nice touch too. They were really hitting their stride by 66 by the looks

[Jay]

Looks awesome J...well done!
Really nice sunburst isn't it
Also that truss rod adjustment access is great right?!
Is it a vintage radius ?
I LOVE that headstock

Can you tell me aittle about the pickups? Output ? Would you say they are 'fender jag' sounding ?

Thanks

Thanks Mr SoT. The truss rod access is superb. Radius a straight 7.25 inch me thinks. Headstock is cool and not sure why Yamaha discontinued it. In fact, both the SG-2 and SG-3 were only made for a year starting somewhere in 1966.

Both models are snapped up pretty quickly when they appear for sale in Japan.

Re the single coil pickups:
Neck pickup original and measuring 9.35 kiloohm. Full grunty sound without getting muddy imo.
I know the original bridge pickup is the same DC resistance as the neck. When I played a fully original one some time ago I preferred the neck over the bridge.
Anyway, the bridge pickup I made follows identical construction as the original. I used AWG43 but have no idea what Yamaha used. DC resistance 7.4kOhm. My bridge pickup sounds pretty good but I am no single coil connoisseur.

You are welcome to try it out next time you are over or wait for Slowy's verdict once he has put it through the wringer


Edit, absolutely no noise, whole cavity shielded

Quite a big difference between the neck and bridge in terms of resistance..how well do they balance ?
Id love to try it.
Always a sucker for an offset , and love two single coil set up that hasn't been poluted by a strat set up aka the middle pickup of why
Lastly, I've always rated that Yamaha trem design. The roller bridge is a nice touch too. They were really hitting their stride by 66 by the looks

Yeah, I don't have a counter on my drill so calculated anticipated resistance based on thickness of total wire I put on. Surprisingly, despite that is has excellent output and is well balanced with the neck.

The trem is now even better as I have improved on the Yamaha design

[robthemac]

Always a sucker for an offset , and love two single coil set up that hasn't been poluted by a strat set up aka the middle pickup of why

News flash!

[Jay]

thanks. I probably saw it, but didn't make the connection. it's great that you went to the effort of doing the pickup.

No, I didn't post it. Will put some pics in this thread tonight.

thanks, that's great

I didn't document the making of the bridge pickup as it was just going to be a prototype. Really pleased with the result though, so gotta make a 'professional' one now
Got a few photos but also lost a few due to a mobile factory reset... Here are the bits that I do have:

Sourced a strip of soft steel shown on the bottom of the photo below. Drilled 2.5mm holes as per string spacing, then tapped them with 0.5mm pitch.




Creating the "bobbin" from polyethylene material which was taped and glued. Photos from fitting the bobbin bottom section and the timber base are gone. Winding photos also lost. Sorry

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This photo shows the magnet on top of the soft steel section

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And this is the top bit. I sanded the top of the screws to remove the black paint. Then cut two thin strips of aluminium foil and glued that on the top.

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[Slowy]

Thanks Mr SoT. The truss rod access is superb. Radius a straight 7.25 inch me thinks. Headstock is cool and not sure why Yamaha discontinued it. In fact, both the SG-2 and SG-3 were only made for a year starting somewhere in 1966.

Both models are snapped up pretty quickly when they appear for sale in Japan.

Re the single coil pickups:
Neck pickup original and measuring 9.35 kiloohm. Full grunty sound without getting muddy imo.
I know the original bridge pickup is the same DC resistance as the neck. When I played a fully original one some time ago I preferred the neck over the bridge.
Anyway, the bridge pickup I made follows identical construction as the original. I used AWG43 but have no idea what Yamaha used. DC resistance 7.4kOhm. My bridge pickup sounds pretty good but I am no single coil connoisseur.

You are welcome to try it out next time you are over or wait for Slowy's verdict once he has put it through the wringer


Edit, absolutely no noise, whole cavity shielded

Quite a big difference between the neck and bridge in terms of resistance..how well do they balance ?
Id love to try it.
Always a sucker for an offset , and love two single coil set up that hasn't been poluted by a strat set up aka the middle pickup of why
Lastly, I've always rated that Yamaha trem design. The roller bridge is a nice touch too. They were really hitting their stride by 66 by the looks

Yeah, I don't have a counter on my drill so calculated anticipated resistance based on thickness of total wire I put on. Surprisingly, despite that is has excellent output and is well balanced with the neck.

The trem is now even better as I have improved on the Yamaha design

Jay, you keep it until Ants has seen it. His assessment will be far more knowlege based than I could manage.


And I can imagine the two of them gettin' along.

[StrummersOfThunder]

Very kind
Im away for a fair while , so fill you boots