I soldered my first pickup today.

[XmasTree]

Lollar Special T bridge into an '06 Hwy1

..new solder gun
..new solder
..and a soldering crash course off the internet

it worked out well
pretty clean job
im proud
....i put everything back together, new strings, adjusted the intonation and BAM!!!!!!!

 

[rodie]

excellent...now on to a pedal?

 

[Kappy]

Congrats. First thing you've ever soldered, or just first pickup?

 

[XmasTree]

Congrats. First thing you've ever soldered, or just first pickup?

First solder experience ever!

 

[Kappy]

Cool, good work. Got a link to the course you took?

Thanks,

Dave

 

[XmasTree]

Cool, good work. Got a link to the course you took?

Thanks,

Dave

I watched this guy. There's 3 videos.
He does a Les Paul though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7AKOdAP40

 

[XmasTree]

..and another guy doing a Tele.

He suggested to measure where you had your saddles because they have to be moved in order to take the bridge plate off (great idea)

So when i put it all back together, i knew (generally) where to adjust the saddles. From there I just fined tuned the intonation.

Parts were like $15 from RadioShack. Well worth it.
I really didn't want my luthier to do something like this and get charged $30.
...and it would sit there for 3-4 days too. F that.