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Post subject: Re:WHAT HANDWOUND(CUSTOM SHOP)TELECASTER PICKUPS ARE THERE?
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:27 am
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This does not mean they were wrapped by hand, but the wire was guided by hand as the pickup bobbin was spun on some type of device. Fender used to “hand wound” the pickups until 1965.

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Post subject: Re: Re:WHAT HANDWOUND(CUSTOM SHOP)TELECASTER PICKUPS ARE THE
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:46 am
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IMO hand wound never mean people turn pickup and guide wire by hand .

There is alway a pickup winder to turn.

What do you mean by " Fender used to handwound PU until 1965. How they do ?


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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:58 pm
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I worked in an electronics coil winding shop in the 60;s .The only coils wound by hand guidance was a prototype sometimes just to get a rough idea for design purposes .Coils that were " hand wound" were wound on a either a actual hand powered machine or more often a powered machine,both machine guided but both controlled by the operator as to turns and finishing with wax or winding onto contacts .the tension was preset to make sure that it stayed within spec. An actual completely hand wound coil ,ie no machine guidance or tension preset ,would not be very often in spec unless it was to a very wide tolerance or was just a single layer of wire on a former of which we had just one small run sometimes .Other coils were completely automatic .They were would on big turret machines and the operator was a machine minder ,changing bobbins when wire ran out and supplying formers and general running .


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Post subject: Re: Re:WHAT HANDWOUND(CUSTOM SHOP)TELECASTER PICKUPS ARE THE
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:04 pm
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alfsboy, this is I often read.


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Post subject: Re: Re:WHAT HANDWOUND(CUSTOM SHOP)TELECASTER PICKUPS ARE THE
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:07 am
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I understand you can get any Fender Custom Shop guitar with "hand wound" pickups for a certain additional price. The rotation is done by the winding machine (as I believe it always has been), but the guiding of the wire (affecting traverse and tension) is done by hand.
The result is a scatter-wound pickup, which many believe can produce better or at least different sound possibilities compared to the more uniform machine winding.

A nice vid of Ms. Abigail Yberra making her magic in this link


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Post subject: Re: Re:WHAT HANDWOUND(CUSTOM SHOP)TELECASTER PICKUPS ARE THE
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:27 am
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[quote="jmattis"] ......but the guiding of the wire (affecting traverse and tension) is done by hand.
The result is a scatter-wound pickup, which many believe can produce better or at least different sound possibilities compared to the more uniform machine winding.

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I'm shure of that ; better or just different than just by machine.

Can we say that anybody ( if knowing how to guide by hand A.Yberra style ) can result in same good or better tone ? A. Yberra ,a very qualified worker, is usefull only for marketing ?


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Post subject: Re: Re:WHAT HANDWOUND(CUSTOM SHOP)TELECASTER PICKUPS ARE THE
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:07 am
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Nope, there's real magic in the hands of all skilled professionals. :wink:

But feel free to test; everything you need to make a DIY pickup is available from guitar parts stores, and instructions are all around the web.
I'd say it's easy to make a pickup that just produces a sound, a tiny bit harder to make one with a sound that compares to factory made pickups, let alone those one-off custom ones.

Still, when I was younger there was a rumor tha Jimi Hendrix used to re-wind his pickups to overwound ones, so...


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Post subject: Re: Re:WHAT HANDWOUND(CUSTOM SHOP)TELECASTER PICKUPS ARE THE
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:43 am
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jmattis wrote:
Nope, there's real magic in the hands of all skilled professionals.



Every skilled professional learn how to before....... that's what we should understand when I write "... anybody ( if knowing how to guide by hand A.Yberra style ) can....."

I'm sure when A. Yberra will retiring from Fender , Fender won't stop building good pickups.

For making myself pickups ! Why ? there are a lot of skill builders cheaper than doing by myself.


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