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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:23 pm
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Martian wrote:

Frankly, I think many a pickup maker got their start the same way.



Certainly a interesting field that offers more scope for individuality then any other with the exception of wood carving. I wish i knew more about it.

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nikininja wrote:
I wish i knew more about it.


niki, check out the link I gave in the first posting:

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electro ... -5967.html

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wheyhey bedtime reading :D .
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So how was your reading?

It all looks so simple, this pickup winding business.

Everyone ought to have some magnets to keep their pickups fully charged and to change the magnetic polarity of their middle pickups to RW/RP to get that hum cancelling in switch positions 2 & 4.

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Post subject: Re: Wind Your Own Pickups
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:09 pm
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Anyone here wind (or rewind) their own pickups?

I did one (an old dead 1975 strat pickup) using the method at:

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electronics/Pickup_building/i-5967.html

except I didn't have to assemble the bobbin or charge the magnets.

The pickup turned out pretty good. I hit about 5.7 K ohms and 2.2 H inductance. Not having a counter, I stopped winding every now and then to take a resistance measurement.


The inductance depends by the magnet therefore rewinding doesn't affect it at all.

For the DC resistance, you just have to be patient to do the job properly. Which wire did you use?


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Post subject: Re: Wind Your Own Pickups
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:37 pm
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cuthbert wrote:
The inductance depends by the magnet therefore rewinding doesn't affect it at all.


That's not true. Because an inductor is mainly a coil of wire:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductor

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For the DC resistance, you just have to be patient to do the job properly. Which wire did you use?


I used the 42 AWG wire from Stew-Mac.

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Post subject: Re: Wind Your Own Pickups
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*BUMP*

I like the idea... Darn, I must start getting my gear over from the continent. Bookmarked anyway!

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Post subject: Re: Wind Your Own Pickups
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:40 pm
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Another bump.

Anyone winding pickups?

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Post subject: Re: Wind Your Own Pickups
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Building a winder is on my to do list. But I haven't done it.


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