MF_Kitten

I learned to solder in about 5 minutes and a soldering iron costs about $10. It's easy, just google "how to solder". You'll find something.

i know how it works, but if anything happens, i don´t wanna be the guy responsible... i like having pros do it, so that if something should happen, i get some sort of compensation, and they fix it again free of charge

if i change my pickup myself and mess it up, not only do i void my warranty, i also mess it up!

i plan on getting more into it some day when i can afford those kinds of hobbies... right now i play it safe

Have you actually tried to adjust the polepieces on the side w/out the holder? Maybe they're not adjustable, Ibanez could have just make that coil match the other one for looks.

EDIT: Or you could just unwind them and rewind them with the same wire but by hand, because hand wound pickups sound better. It will take a long time, though.

@southpa and ibanezlover: i don´t wanna rewind, as i´m not going to do something i´m not experienced at... also, it would require soldering in the end, and i have no knowledge about that... i have thought about scatterwinding them, but i have never done anything like that before, so...

i´m not looking for anything big really... anyone know if there would be any effect in switching the bar magnet in the middle out with another bar magnet of the same basic size, except it´s flatter? like it still takes up as much space sideways and in length, but it´s not as tall...

also, i figured out the polepieces... there IS one adjustable and one un-adjustable side Kind of... you see, both sides look the same on the top, with the allen-wrench-adjustable tops, but the ´´adjustable´´ side is thinner on the underside and has the pole-piece-holder, while the un-adjustable side is thick all the way through, but once you adjust it up, you can push it back in with your finger so i now know what that´s all about...

i´m thinking about getting a hold of an epiphone pickup and try to fit the golden nickel cover on top of this one, and just replacing the adjustable pole pieces of this pickup with the epiphone´s golden ones to match... will the different pole pieces make a difference here at all? like instead of the ones in place, i will put golden screw-style ones in?

Sorry, I don't know that much about pickups, I've never built my own... I have no idea why, to answer your question. Can you actually adjust the polepieces on that side? Most pickups with adjustable polepieces only have 1 adjustable coil, so I would think that your pickup should have 2 holders. Are you the first owner of your guitar? The only thing that I can think of is that someone else opened up your pickups and lost the polepiece holder.

bought the guitar brand new, and the screws that hold the base-plate still had wax in them from the wax potting, so they´re opened for the first time ever here, so nope, they haven´t been meddled with before...

and yeah, both coils have adjustable pole-pieces, but only one pole-piece holder... strange, but interesting maybe a design error? doesen´t really make that much of a difference though, as the pole pieces are standard-shaped with an allan-wrench pattern on top, instead of the conventional screws... so they need about as much holding as ordinary unadjustable polepieces...

also, i don´t know alot about pickups myself either, which is why i came here

Here are 2 pages full of info on pickup types and explaining what differences they make:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Tools:_P...65.html#details

http://galileo.spaceports.com/~fishbake/buck/humbuck.htm

thanks doesen´t quite explain what i´m looking at here though... the shiny metal piece looks like it should be a pole piece holder for the adjustable polepieces... but the polepieces on the other side are identical adjustable ones too, so why don´t they too have that shiny piece of metal on them?

yeah, this is my first post here, found this forum and thought ´´hey, nice place! ´´... i´m not a forum-newbie though, i´m also on jemsite and sevenstring-org

so, on with the topic...

i´ve got an Ibanez RG 350 DX, with stock pickups in a H-S-H configuration... i´m thinking of messing about with the pickups (not with the switching or anything like that, i mean the actual pickups themselves)...

i´m not gunna buy new pickups or components, as i spent my cash on new pickups for my seven string

so i was wondering if anyone could help me with what i can do? for conveniences sake (probably spelled that wrong ), i´ve added pictures of the pickup with the base plate unscrewed... don´t worry, i´ve put her back together... for now...

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6271/toptt2.jpg top view

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/6543/sideviewyd5.jpg side-view

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5589/insidegp4.jpg inside

also inside

so tell me, what am i looking at here? what do these magnets and plates under the coils do? and what´s that shiny metal thingy under the coil on the right? and most importantly, what can i mess with in here, to change how it sounds? ANY suggestions appreciated also, i´m not gunna rewind them, that´s too much of a hassle for me... i´m thinking more about messing with the magnets and things like that.