Wax Potting Pickups | Super 70 Humbuckers

Wax Potting a pair of Super 70 humbuckers from a 1978 Ibanez 2350 using a slow cooker, paraffin wax and glass marbles.
Transcript
00:02 Super 70 Humbuckers | 1978 Ibanez 2350
00:05 Neck Pickup
00:08 Bridge Pickup
00:11 Melt paraffin wax in a slow cooker on high heat
00:20 After all the wax has melted
00:22 Switch to low heat
00:24 Add glass marbles
00:26 Make sure the bottom is completely covered
00:29 Gently lower the pickups into the wax bath
00:35 Make sure they are completely immersed
00:39 You will see lots of air bubbles
00:45 This shows that liquid wax is displacing air
00:51 Gently shake the pickup leads from time to time
00:56 This will speed up the process
01:03 Less and less air bubbles are to be seen
01:16 Liquid wax has displaced most of the air
01:26 Soon, no more air bubbles will be seen
01:36 When this happens, the job is done
01:46 No more air bubbles
01:48 Turn off the slow cooker
01:50 Gently remove the pickups from the wax bath
01:55 Place them on a paper towel
02:01 Wait until the pickups are cool enough to touch
02:05 Then remove the excess wax with a paper towel

[@PsychoCidWS6]

Very cool, wish there could have been sound clips!

[@DrumWild]

I've never seen this done before! Too cool!

[@bluesguy62]

Thanks 🤗
There are many ways to get the job done, but this is the method I'm most comfortable with.

[@fanoboss]

oh no