My Mosrite Combo -- Showing Off and Asking Questions
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:02 pm
I'm a bona fide Mosrite guy now! A few weeks ago I was getting more and more into the Mosrite sound and looking into M3 pickups. Fast forward to Friday and I get a Mosrite Combo delivered! It was on eBay and I fell in love so I went to play a Combo 12er and Mark I locally to see if I'd like the necks and I loved them. I've been playing the fudge out of this thing all weekend. The pretty pictures are below (the first 2 from the seller). But I have some questions I hope you can help me with.
1. PICKUP OUTPUT: Mine are about 7.25K and 10.60K. (I actually swapped the neck and bridge so that the higher output pickup is in the bridge now.) Is 7-10K about average for Combo pickups?
2. PICKUP PHASE: The guitar arrived with pickups out of phase in the middle position. So when I swapped the neck and bridge pickups I reversed the leads. But then I was hardly getting any reading on the multimeter--about .05K. I tried resoldering and got the same results. So for now they are wired out of phase in the middle position unfortunately. Does the lead/ground reversal not work for some reason on Semie pickups? Do I need to flip the magnet?
3. DATING: I'm very much in love but that's not the dating I mean. The pots are non-original so it's hard to date my Combo. However I found this list of serial numbers: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mochizuki/kiyosh ... rlist.html. Someone there has SN H0555 and someone else has H0642. Both are 1967. Mine is H0575 so falls in between those. So I'd assume mine is a '67 too? Or was Mosrite numbering more arcane than that?
1. PICKUP OUTPUT: Mine are about 7.25K and 10.60K. (I actually swapped the neck and bridge so that the higher output pickup is in the bridge now.) Is 7-10K about average for Combo pickups?
2. PICKUP PHASE: The guitar arrived with pickups out of phase in the middle position. So when I swapped the neck and bridge pickups I reversed the leads. But then I was hardly getting any reading on the multimeter--about .05K. I tried resoldering and got the same results. So for now they are wired out of phase in the middle position unfortunately. Does the lead/ground reversal not work for some reason on Semie pickups? Do I need to flip the magnet?
3. DATING: I'm very much in love but that's not the dating I mean. The pots are non-original so it's hard to date my Combo. However I found this list of serial numbers: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mochizuki/kiyosh ... rlist.html. Someone there has SN H0555 and someone else has H0642. Both are 1967. Mine is H0575 so falls in between those. So I'd assume mine is a '67 too? Or was Mosrite numbering more arcane than that?