Epiphone Casino Change Pickups
Upgrading the stock Casino pickups for a more vintage sound
I now have a Epiphone Casino gold top with a Lollar 50's wind P-90 in the neck and a Wolfetone Meaner P-90 in the bridge. It should be noted that I also ordered the shim pack that Jason Lollar sells and they look great and fit perfectly. I have an Epiphone Casino Coupe, which sounds wonderful unplugged and plays really well. Unfortunately, plugged in it sounds dull and muddy. I don’t have much experience with fully hollow body guitars, so not sure if that’s just what they tend towards. Or, whether it’s the brass pickup covers, or just crap pickups.
- Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups - What's inside 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.
- Epiphone Casino Coupe (Image credit: Epiphone) The Casino Coupe has been reborn in a smaller ES-339 body size. The updated Casino Coupe also features new Epiphone Dogear P-90T Classic single coil pickups, a Mahogany neck and vintage styled machine heads. For more on Epiphone's updated Casino line, head on over to epiphone.com.
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 Change Pickups Tab
Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups - What's inside
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.
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. 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.
Change Pickups On Epiphone Casino
Mike wanted to tone them down with a rewind and new magnets.
Upgrading Stock Epiphone Casino Pickups - What's inside
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.