very gently unwrap the tape covering the windings. if you can find the wire at the break, you can gently unwrap 1 wind. then, using a soldering iron (heated up of course) and "scrape" the very end of the wire. the windings are clear coated,and this will melt it off. then after it'smelted off, you can use a multi-meter to check the resistance of the coil. if you have a good unbroken loop now, then you will need to carefully trim the winding so it is the right length to reattach to the leads,then "strip" the coating again in the new spot. verify continuity, then depnding on how the pup is laid out, you may need to just solder the winding to the "connector" that the lead is soldered to (luckiest) , or you may need to try and "scrape solder" the winding and lead together. (hardest).
in "stock" form, sometimes the coil winding had a lonnger area "stripped" of the coating, and bent in a hook shape, then the lead wire was stripped and bent thesame way, so they woould just hook together andnot have a solder joint. but just "lay" across each other, then taped up when the coil was wrapped. what happens a lot is the "wrapping" loosens due to heat an/or age, and the connection loosens....
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I know I could replace it with a new one but I like the sound. I have heard you have to remove the coating from the coil to get a reading. How is this done? Is there a site to get the details of this so I dont do more damage? As I said ,I like the sound and the way it plays. I want to keep it as close to original as possible.
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