Das too much soldering arround...just get ?admas Special Handy Dandy Wire Stretcher.

20 bucks, in an envelop C/o dis here web site.
and Lance will send it right on out to you.

Ouch. Was that really necessary?

that 43-44 gauge pickup wire is fine as a hair, and equally easy to break....i'd be inclined to leave the bobbin contacts alone, and splice further on down the line. if you break the bobbin wire, the pickup is toast, until you unwind a loop or two, scrape the laquer off the wire with fine sandpaper, and manage to resolder....but i'm not sure what you mean by discrete wire. coax?

The manner in which most of these pickups are made they wrap the copper wire around the eyelet several times and then solder, and attach the leads. I seriously doubt it'll come unwrapped in the changing of a single lead. The only other potential harm I see coming here is if he sits on the eyelet way too long with an overheated iron. Those winding threads are thin and I have seen heat eat through them... but it took a bit.
My advice: Concentrate on just removing and replacing the lead, don't fret about the windings.
Chris

The manner in which most of these pickups are made they wrap the copper wire around the eyelet several times and then solder, and attach the leads. I seriously doubt it'll come unwrapped in the changing of a single lead. The only other potential harm I see coming here is if he sits on the eyelet way too long with an overheated iron. Those winding threads are thin and I have seen heat eat through them... but it took a bit.
My advice: Concentrate on just removing and replacing the lead, don't fret about the windings.
Chris

Hey Padma, just some advice which you can take for what it's worth......if you want people to take you serious as a craftsman and a mentor, you may want to consider improving your communication skills.......it's hard to take anything serious when it's communicated in a way that shows the presenter to be of the same mental and verbal skill level as the cookie monster from sesame street. I mean no offense, but that's an honest observation from someone who does not really know you.....that is how you appear to a lot of us, just a buffoon here for comic relief and not to be taken seriously......JS.

.... Padma's builds are usually the most interesting ones on here!....

When I'm doing stuff truly as artistic and requiring of extra-super luthier skills as Duh Padma, THEN I'll start denigrating and insulting other luthiers who have done nothing more than post an off the wall comment on a simple topic.

If all I'm doing is posting builds and instructional videos of something that's already been done a hundred times before me, then I'll try to be polite and ignore people that annoy me.

Really, how small is it if you have to whip out and wave it around on THIS topic?

I get the concept Sandy, I build pickups so I'm pretty familiar with them. Yes, it's a single wire leaving the eyelet going into the coil. However, standard practice is to then wrap the wire around the eyelet a couple times; it's very easy to see if they did it. Because this is wrapped, the concept of it slipping away and making it impossible to re-attach is not a worry. IMO, you'd have to TRY to screw this up... And for those afraid of break the strand going from the eyelet to the coil it's on the other side of the flatwork from where you're soldering, moving the iron around, etc.
Look, COULD you break it, sure. But IMO it's much more likely you won't. And without trying, you'll never know for the future if you're capable. Give it a go. It's really not that hard at all.
Chris