Hand wound flat pick up variant! First one and looks good but sounds FU$@IN amazing! Man I shoulda tried this sooner! Just gota build a git for it now! Sound sample in a few days

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Comment by Slow Mick on October 28, 2023 at 9:43pm

Looks impressive! How many threads of wire do you use? What gage of wireˆ

Thank You

Comment by HarleyTodd on May 7, 2013 at 10:07am

Looks great.  I would really like to build my own slim style pickup (really any pickup, but slim seems to work so much better on neck thru design).  I have been to the great Elmar's site and stuff looks great, as does this one.  I read in the comments here about alot of references to parts of the building of this, but for someone who has never made a pickup, seems hard to follow discussion enough to try my own build.  Is there a step by step, with pics, explanation anywhere to making pickups?  I read about "north up, x ohms, magnets in teh middle etc," but never quite understand.  thanks everyone. 

Comment by Maddog on April 18, 2013 at 3:51pm

Looks nice Patrick.

There must be magic in that Sheep Cheese Elmar lol I don't believe the local grocery has that here in Nebraska :-)

These flat pickups ya'll make are quite amazing gentlemen!

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on April 18, 2013 at 7:06am

tin plated cans (which formerly contained sheep cheese from Denmark to be exact :-)

...so that's the secret!  i thought the magic was in the coils....! (-;

 

Comment by Craig Mayhem on April 18, 2013 at 5:53am

well never mind then, lol

Comment by Patrick Snapp on April 18, 2013 at 5:52am
No that's a different more conventional pick up
Comment by Craig Mayhem on April 18, 2013 at 5:47am

Ah, now I see that the steel is sticking out at the top! 

Comment by Patrick Snapp on April 18, 2013 at 5:36am
Just sanded smooth I did think of that prior to winding, should be good only time will tell.
Comment by Elmar Zeilhofer on April 18, 2013 at 5:20am

did you protect the edges with tapes or so? In the beginning, some of my coils were damages due to the sharp ends. They shortcutted

Comment by Patrick Snapp on April 18, 2013 at 5:15am
Regular 22 gauge sheet steel is wht I used

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