Posted by Eric Townsend on August 24, 2011 at 8:02pm
My first pickup from scratch! Couldn't' find any brass eyelets so had to rig my own from grounding tabs. Maple bobbin. sized for a 3-stringer. Bobbin measures between a Strat and a P-90...a little shorter and fatter than a single coil. Wound to 6.2 ohms...probably could wind it to 3.5 and it'd sound great, since this is a little dark without pushing the treble and mids on the amp.
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Thanks Kenneth, I think my next ones will be wound at 3 or so -- thought I'd even try a low-powered humbucker so that both coils add up to 3-ish.... I sure wish I had a woodshop/bench I could keep set up all the time...I have to haul out, set up and put away the tools and/or have everything do double-duty -- like I have to build my winder each time I want to wind...pain in the A and lends itself easily to procrastination ---
as for magnets...gotta find a cheap source for ceramic bar magnets...this is cool and sure works but it's a wide one like a frig magnet...wish these weren't so brittle: I could saw these in half and they'd be perfect sized for the CBG bobbins. I'll let you know when I get the next pickup wound.
Leo"s Strats were 3.5 to 3.8 or so ...Ive had 5 pre BS the ones I tested never got the ohm meter to 4.ohms
even the grey bottoms on my 1965 transitional [4 bolt neck] it could make all the AXIS sounds ..FULL and HUGE with fast gains in the pickups themselves.....all the polepieces were ground slightly different...Alnico 5 mags. the presence very open... the slab Strats 61 62 63 were different [blk bottoms] my faves were the grey bottoms. wish we could sit and strum over coffee good luck KP
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Thanks Kenneth, I think my next ones will be wound at 3 or so -- thought I'd even try a low-powered humbucker so that both coils add up to 3-ish.... I sure wish I had a woodshop/bench I could keep set up all the time...I have to haul out, set up and put away the tools and/or have everything do double-duty -- like I have to build my winder each time I want to wind...pain in the A and lends itself easily to procrastination ---
as for magnets...gotta find a cheap source for ceramic bar magnets...this is cool and sure works but it's a wide one like a frig magnet...wish these weren't so brittle: I could saw these in half and they'd be perfect sized for the CBG bobbins. I'll let you know when I get the next pickup wound.
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Leo"s Strats were 3.5 to 3.8 or so ...Ive had 5 pre BS the ones I tested never got the ohm meter to 4.ohms
even the grey bottoms on my 1965 transitional [4 bolt neck] it could make all the AXIS sounds ..FULL and HUGE with fast gains in the pickups themselves.....all the polepieces were ground slightly different...Alnico 5 mags. the presence very open... the slab Strats 61 62 63 were different [blk bottoms] my faves were the grey bottoms. wish we could sit and strum over coffee good luck KP