changing polepieces

j.t..i. · #1 11-16-2009, 02:19 PM

i ordered a pickup from Dimarzio, and specified to change the polepieces to black instead of chrome. Well, they sent a regular chrome one. After contacting them, they are sending me some black polepieces.

Need I just remove the chome ones and replace them with the black ones? Nothing more?

djohns74 · #2 11-16-2009, 02:30 PM

I have to believe that they are actually sending new pickups with the correct pole pieces, sending just pole pieces would be a REALLY strange way to handle it as that would not be an easy install.

j.t..i. · #3 11-16-2009, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by djohns74

I have to believe that they are actually sending new pickups with the correct pole pieces, sending just pole pieces would be a REALLY strange way to handle it as that would not be an easy install.

No, they are sending polepieces. They say its actually very common to change the polepieces. It's a pickup with allen head polepieces, btw.

djohns74 · #4 11-16-2009, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by j.t..i.

No, they are sending polepieces. They say its actually very common to change the polepieces. It's a pickup with allen head polepieces, btw.

Not knowing how those types of pole pieces really work, I wouldn't have thought that would be any easier, but I guess I can see it in that case. Regardless, if they're sending pole pieces, then they must be easy to install or they'd never leave it up to a customer to do it.

j.t..i. · #5 11-16-2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by djohns74

Not knowing how those types of pole pieces really work, I wouldn't have thought that would be any easier, but I guess I can see it in that case. Regardless, if they're sending pole pieces, then they must be easy to install or they'd never leave it up to a customer to do it.

I actually have an old QM2 that came out of my s540, and i removed the polepiece to see what would happen, and it just unscrewed like a normal screw.

I just want everything to be PERFECT in this guitar they're going in.

LonePhantom · #6 11-21-2009, 12:22 AM

With humbuckers jt should just be a case of unscrewing the chrome ones, and screwing the black ones in. Pretty simple really.

steve · #7 11-22-2009, 03:51 PM

Straight up swap-out - they're screws or set-screws.
Just be very sensitive to the threading, as with any screw; make sure they're going in straight, exactly as the ones already in there... it's only a plastic bobbin that it's going into, so the bobbin plastic will be first to give if you cross-thread, or go in crooked.

AND, make sure to do just one at a time - this makes perfect sense to me, and was confirmed by the tech department at DiMarzio.
One out, one in... repeat as needed =]

... and you'll have to do some cleanup of the potting compound that will come squeezing out during this process; it's very much like wax, and just buffs away.