Upgrading the stock Casino pickups for a more vintage sound. Creamery - Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups. I recently ran one of my regular competitions to wind a set of handwound pickups and the winner, Mike, asked whether he could have his Epiphone Casino pickups rewound/upgraded for a more vintage tone - 'No problem', I said. I've changed this things: - PICKUPS to Bare Knuckles Nantucket P90 - POTS to CTS - SWITCH - BRIDGE to Gotoh Gear used in this video: Guitars: - Epiphone Casi.
- Epiphone Casino Replacement Pickups
- Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Parts
- Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Kit
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- Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Parts
- Epiphone Casino Pickup Replacement
Epiphone Casino Replacement Pickups
- The Epiphone Casino (also the Wildcat) is a 'whole different animal' although it looks a lot like a standard dogear set. Your first decision is whether or not you want to use the chrome covers. Something to consider is that with plastic covers the pickup will have a little more high end because the metal covers will reduce the top end a little bit.
- Take measurements of the pickup height from each string so you can reset it. If the new pickups are different resistances from the current ones you will need to adjust the height to get an even, balanced output between the two pickups. My old tech used to charge $35 for pickup installation and it was an extra $35 on top for having to do a.
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P-90 Single Coil Pickup
Legendary Tone
First introduced in the early 1950s, Gibson's legendary P90 single coil pickup produced a raw powerful tone that helped define the blues and rock and roll in their formative years. Today, the P90's traditional combination of high output and brilliant tone is still considered a favorite among many top musicians. Known by such familiar nicknames as the 'Soapbar' and the 'Cobalt,' the P90 still cuts through any type of music, all while displaying amazing tonal sensitivity for everything from blues and rock to mellow jazz riffs. It's perfect as a vintage replacement, and features vintage, braided two-conductor wiring. It's also fully wax potted to eliminate any chance of unwanted microphonic feedback.
Casino Specifications
Body
Archtop
Layered Maple
5-ply layered Maple with Basswood bracing
Headstock: None
Neck
Mahogany
SlimTaper™; D-Profile
24.75' / 628.65mm
Pau Ferro with Pearloid Parallelogram inlays
12'
1.68' / 42.67mm
16th Fret neck joint
Hardware
Nickel
LockTone™ Tune-O-Matic
Traditional Trapeze
Vintage-style Epiphone
3-ply; White/Black/White with metal 'E'
Vintage-style Gold with metal inserts, and with pointers
Nickel
Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Parts
Electronics
Dogear P-90T Classic™
Dogear P-90R Classic™
2- Volume, 2- Tone
3-way Epiphone toggle
1/4' Epiphone Heavy-Duty
Miscellaneous
D'Addario® 10, 13, 17, 26, 36, 46
In order to continually improve the design, quality and performance of our products and instruments and to make use of the best materials at all times, Epiphone reserves the right to change specifications without notice.
Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Kit
Upgrading the stock Casino pickups for a more vintage sound
Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Brackets
Creamery - Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups
I recently ran one of my regular competitions to wind a set of handwound pickups and the winner, Mike, asked whether he could have his Epiphone Casino pickups rewound/upgraded for a more vintage tone - 'No problem', I said. The stock pickups had a very high output, 12.1k in the Bridge & 11.6k in the Neck, an unsubtle set especially for a Hollow Body guitar.
Mike wanted to tone them down with a rewind and new magnets.
Epiphone Casino Pickups Replacement Parts
Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups - What's inside
Epiphone Casino Pickup Replacement
The first task was to remove the covers and see what's inside. The Epiphone Casino has custom bobbins with a string spacing narrower than a standard P90. The option was to either make new bobbins to match the cover pole spacing or simply use the existing ones. Mike had no issue with me utilising the existing bobbins so the challenge now was to remove the existing overwound coil wire in such a way as to not nick the sides. Any cuts or scratches to the very thin top & bottom layers of the bobbins could catch on the new coil wire when winding, snapping or pulling it leaving a few thousand turns of coil useless.