Hello, this is Rick Andrews owner of Andrews Guitar and a long time member of EvO:R. This section has been put together to help you with your guitar related questions. I did not agree to do this so I could simply plug my guitars, I did this so you could finally have answers to many of those burning questions you may have had about your guitar.

Well Jason, I would say your pickup is OK. If the pickup is bad then it will not work at all. The fine as a frog hair split 3 ways coil winding once broken will not let the current through and it will not work at all. If it not broke then the current passes all the way through the circuit so it is fine.

There is a slight possibility the high heat could have melted away the shellac finish on the copper wire coil and the current could be shorting through and killing the power but I tend to think maybe you overheated one of the control pots, or a capacitor, or it is possible when you attached the wires it is not grounded well or some wiring is not soldered in a good connection as it should be therefore making the signal work but not very good, only slightly.

Sometimes the metal surface is not cleaned well enough so it only partially conducts the signal. It is also possible the heat ruined the wiper inside the tone or vilume pot.

To trouble shoot I would suggest this: Un-solder the wires and then connrect the pickup direct to the end of your jack cord from the amp bnypassing any controls. This way your amp sends the signal direct through the pickup. Be sure to have a good connection. The pickup should sound full volume and highest treble tone and full strength. If that proves true then you know the pickup is fine.

Next, add the volume control into the circuit and see if it alone operates the volume properly. Then take loose the vilume control and wire in the tone control only and see what it does. Last check the toggle switch itself.

Now at this point you have checked each indivivdual part alone and it will prove to you which one is the bad guy. If they all work properly alone then the wiring and soldering was not a good solid connection. I have seen circuits soldered together that I could not pull the wires offyet the glob of solder was heavy and filled with oils and grity and could not get good conuctivity.

It is like the mtrealic soldering wire is alloyed with non-conductive stuff and inteferes with the signal. You want your soldering to be a good pure metalic through and through to conduct properly. Check out these things in that order and let me know. I think you will find it.