Silvertone project 5th page

Time to tackle the electronics. The neck pickup was bought as a "project" (non-working). Fortunately I have a few working coils in my pickup box.

This is what the underside of the pickup looks like. Unlike most pickups these are held together by rivets instead of screws.

To open the pickup housing you have to drill out the rivets from the underside:

Here's the pickup with the coil changed for a working one. I assembled it with thin screws in place of the rivets. The next step will be sawing the excess length of the screws off and fastening the pickup to the pickguard.

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