Installing a Rewound 1966 Grey Bottom Strat Neck Pickup - Unpotted

In this video I install and test drive my repaired 3/17/66 Fender Strat un-potted neck pickup. In a previous video, I showed how I damaged the winding with a small screwdriver. I had to send it to Aaron at Rumpelstiltskin Pickups to have it rewound. We decided to try it un-potted with wax but it was still microphonic even with a tighter coil wind. In the next video, we will go through the potting process.

I apologize for the poor audio. I'm still figuring this new system out and I had it in split mode (stereo) instead of merged mode for a single transmitter (mono).

NOTE: The potting video ended up being a disaster. I wish I could post the video but I still have the audio in the left channel. There are some key details left out in the few YT videos I watched on pickup potting. I think I will post on "How Not to Wax Pot a Pickup" as a PSA so someone else doesn't make the same mistake. I am sending the pickup back to Aaron this morning to be repaired.

Here is an interesting article and video of the pros, cons and history of wax potting. https://wgsusa.com/blog/potted-vs-un-potted-guitar-pickups-pros-and-cons

It turns out that Fender never potted the pickups in the beginning because no one was playing super high gain amps back then. When the high gain amps came about, the need for something to cut down on the pickup's microphonics became obvious. It appears that Seymour Duncan was the one that invented it but that may be incorrect.

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