National New Yorker - troubleshoot

[Mark Santi]

Hello friends,
Guess I found out why he accepted my lowball offer, pickup seems dead.
Would really appreciate any help, beginning with: how in the world do you get to it ??

[D Schubert]

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[D Schubert]

After my bad experience with trying to repair, I sold my old New Yorker to a luthier (very low price) who gutted it and installed a modern humbucking pickup, etc.

[Jeff Highland]

What year? the pickups vary dramatically from start to finish of production.

[Mark Santi]

Jeff, I believe it's from 1947

[Jeff Highland]

My 49 had the large combined pickup casing and bridge. It also arrived dead which I blamed on the shipping rather than the rputable seller. I was able to open the casing by bending back the tabs under the mounting plate, the bobbins Lifted off the polepiece screws and I sent them off to Jason Lollar for rewinding (this was over 15 years ago). Yours may be different, the pics I see of 47s seem to have a separate pickup and bridge.

[Glenn Wilde]

Could you put up some pictures so we can see what we're dealing with? Some of those have the standard string through Valco pickup, those are totally rebuildable.

[Noah Miller]

A '47 would have an under-string pickup. Which one is a different question.