Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement
Epiphone Elitist Casino p90 Pickup Replacement QUESTION QUESTION Hey guys, I recently stumbled upon a basically new Epiphone Elitist Casino body/neck stripped of all of it's hardware for a really dumb low price of $300. The Epiphone’s neck pickup was way overwound, reading over 12k on my multimeter! It sounded super muddy. It sounded super muddy. Modern Epi P-90 neck pickups use a different string spread than the bridge pickup, even though vintage Gibson P-90's are the same string spread for both neck and bridge positions. Selling a high quality and slightly used. 3-ply pickguard, with mounting block attached, for a Gibson ES-330 or Epiphone Casino style guitar. These are thin 335 style hollow bodies with 2 P90 pickups. Would fit other guitars like that as well. Jul 23, 2020 I have an Epiphone Casino Coupe, which sounds wonderful unplugged and plays really well. Unfortunately, plugged in it sounds dull and muddy. I don’t have much experience with fully hollow body guitars, so not sure if that’s just what they tend towards. Or, whether it’s the brass pickup covers, or just crap pickups.
Upgrading the stock Casino pickups for a more vintage sound
Creamery - Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups
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.
Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Body Panels
Mike wanted to tone them down with a rewind and new magnets.
Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Parts
Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups - What's inside
Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Guide
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.