Back in the late 90's when I moved my studio to my house I remember a drummer came over and complained because "this isn't how real CD's are made". For weeks on end I heard about how they should be recording in a real studio. After it was released and started getting radio play along side "real CD's" he shut up. Ended up doing several release for the band and not a word out of the drummer..... Great job with the RV, really enjoy your channel!
Dude, that’s really freaking inspiring! You’re successful and you do it in your own freakin terms. Hats off to you man. When I can, I’m gonna get a tele set and a p90 or two. I like your style, I don’t care for pants either!!
Screw your detractors! Dude, seriously, you adapt like few businessmen can. That's a big reason why I watch your videos. It's not only what you do, but how you do it.
Excellent real world video 📹., I liked seeing your motor home that was fun. I recently saw your video on pick up construction and it brought up a question: How it would it change the tone to switch my brass base plate for a nickle plate on my Tele bridge pickup? Would it be worth it? The Pickup measures 6.8k and I wax potted it. But I still find it a bit brash in the higher frequencies. Thanks Dylan 😊
Really cool to see you process first hand with the current setup... Would you care so share some info on how you would do single or dual polepiece pickups as far as DC resistance spec and so forth... I'm thinking cigar box and goofy stuff like that. I want to do a crazy single string electric for some studio noisage use and I was wondering if I should get a longer magnet polepiece to get more winds on the coil... Let me know what you think!!
Can a humbucker have effective noise cancelling if the coil closest to the bridge is wound slightly more than its counterpart within the same pickup? Essentially, in an HH setup, there would be 4 different amounts of winding with less at the neck working progressively more wound toward the bridge using this methodology. How would it sound?
It seems so ridiculous to me that you get criticism for where you work out of! I build guitars out of my home workshop and the only difference between a Les Paul made by Gibson, and one made by me, is that the ones I make stay in tune and never need a headstock repair. It's not the building you work in that matters, it's the products leaving the building that count.
Awesome stuff. Please please also film the magnetizing and waxing parts of the process someday. (And no those things can't be done without pants / in your home / in an RV / in the driveway, how come you can get anything done professionally without a fancy office block and a huge factory lol)
They're called staggered like a single coil strat pickup you mean? there's a little mix of having to do with the curvature of the fingerboard, along with some strings sounding louder than others, and we've also changed gauges, I mean in terms of popularity... We went from heavy flatwounds, to discarding the low E, moving them all up (or down rather) and putting a thin gauge banjo string in place of the high E...man I remember as a kid going with my father in the car across a few counties to get some black diamond or La Bella strings which are only two companies I could even remember back then. Anyway the single coils with the slugs or poll pieces that are staggered-those were almost always made with the pole pieces being magnetized themselves as opposed to a magnet underneath them, and in the old days you'd crank up that guitar and the pull from the magnet could self-generate the string into feeding back, and I'm getting long-winded.... But a funny thing just came to me... I knew a very good bass player, college instructor and all around pro... He showed me his bass, telling me that it was about to go in to the shop for possibly extensive work, maybe moving the side fret markers possibly planing the fretboard, all because it wouldn't play in tune. Mind you it was a fretless, but he was a classically-trained jazz heavy, upright player who pretty much knew his stuff and how should it should be. Me being a strat player, it took me about one minute to figure out his pickups were too close to his strings and throwing all the harmonic content to heck. I lowered them, saved him a couple hundred bucks he bought me a beer and he started throwing me my first gigs... A guy named Joe Tater, 4 hours dinner music on, 45mins off and another four hours dance...80 bucks! I doubled on bass and guitar. if I remember right I think my apartment was 180 or 200 a month. I justremember the Toyota Corolla I drove to the gig I got from him also, I think for $100 because somebody swiped it coming around the corner bending in the driver side front wheel. I replaced the control arm rim and tire for less than fifty bucks, and put almost 300,000 on that car. Wow all that for a couple turns of a couple screws. Haha this is what happens when an old guy butts in, bored from being shut in with this virus. And I've only scratched the surface of the question....... hahahaha.
@@DylanTalksTone Makes sense to me :) Here's another random question, is it possible to get a bridge Tele pickup with a white bobbin, rather than the ubiquitous black. I've even seen exotic wood pup covers, but almost a simple white bobbin. Thanks again!
we have a "home address" where our mail is handled. we have been working to ha e more inventory and order less frequently. I'm starting to figure it out
You’re a brave man Dylan...going pant-less whilst playing about with dollops of molten lead alloy.😆 As to where you made the bits & pieces that you do, e.g., where you you create, make, mod and repair the various and sundry wares and services you offer... What difference does it make? None as far as I’m concerned. If you’d never made a YT video or volunteered where and how you work, no one would have any idea what kind of facilities provide you a space from which you are able to create, make, mod and repair most things guitar related. You are able to offer the requisites of price, customer service and turnaround time; that is what matters. Those who presumptively judge you and call you out because in their blindered assessment, your workplace isn’t adequately professional, such have got their priorities grossly misaligned. Having the business model that you do allows you to offer the aforementioned requisites and remain competitive with the other companies that offer the same.
I swear, you need bias-ply on your wheels if you want that vintage tone. If you put radials on it you lose SOOO much resonance in the pickups you wind there.
Why not run the bottom plate ground with a third lead, separate lead from the pickup's ground, so that the user could reverse the two pickup leads, to match the phase of another pickup, if need be? Obviously not necessary if someone buys a PAIR of pickups from you, but if they buy a single pickup from you, to run with another maker's pickup - that would be very nice to have to easily match phase between the two pickups.
Back in the late 90's when I moved my studio to my house I remember a drummer came over and complained because "this isn't how real CD's are made". For weeks on end I heard about how they should be recording in a real studio. After it was released and started getting radio play along side "real CD's" he shut up. Ended up doing several release for the band and not a word out of the drummer..... Great job with the RV, really enjoy your channel!
Dude, that’s really freaking inspiring! You’re successful and you do it in your own freakin terms. Hats off to you man. When I can, I’m gonna get a tele set and a p90 or two. I like your style, I don’t care for pants either!!
your doing it your way that's what makes you unique
That's a beautiful motorhome !
That looks enormous
I love my Telecaster neck pickup I installed in my kit guitar. I can attest that even made from your home, the quality is amazing.
Thanks for another informative vid, Dylan! Cool to see you keeping the biz alive with a mobile lifestyle, VERY COOL!!
we are trying lol!
Handcrafted Pickups 😁👍
Thanks, Dylan!
Really enjoy the humbucker sized p90s you made for me. Another awesome video... Love it, living the dream.. Thanks Dylan have a great day.
Great video. You are as professional as any other hand winder.
Cool setup mate.
Stay safe and love to all.
Respect mate. Live the dream.
Professional professional. Good pickups are good pickups 😉
This was fun! Makes me want to start another Tele project!!
Me gustan todos tus videos man ! You're doing a great job with this channel!
Pretty neat!!
Screw your detractors! Dude, seriously, you adapt like few businessmen can. That's a big reason why I watch your videos. It's not only what you do, but how you do it.
thanks so much man
Excellent real world video 📹., I liked seeing your motor home that was fun.
I recently saw your video on pick up construction and it brought up a question:
How it would it change the tone to switch my brass base plate for a nickle plate on my Tele bridge pickup?
Would it be worth it?
The Pickup measures 6.8k and I wax potted it. But I still find it a bit brash in the higher frequencies.
Thanks Dylan 😊
no hat-head reveal at 100K subscribers.
hahahahahahahaha
I'll take that bet!!!
Stay safe guys!
Really cool to see you process first hand with the current setup... Would you care so share some info on how you would do single or dual polepiece pickups as far as DC resistance spec and so forth... I'm thinking cigar box and goofy stuff like that. I want to do a crazy single string electric for some studio noisage use and I was wondering if I should get a longer magnet polepiece to get more winds on the coil... Let me know what you think!!
Your fridge is nicer than mine, hey!
Dylan we love you, whatever some stupid people say.
Can a humbucker have effective noise cancelling if the coil closest to the bridge is wound slightly more than its counterpart within the same pickup? Essentially, in an HH setup, there would be 4 different amounts of winding with less at the neck working progressively more wound toward the bridge using this methodology. How would it sound?
Does to matter where you start. Hewlett-Packard and Apple started out of their garage.
Ever consider using a foot switch to control the speed of the winder? Couldn't help but notice the resemblance to a sewing machine.
I used to use one but switched to the hand
It seems so ridiculous to me that you get criticism for where you work out of! I build guitars out of my home workshop and the only difference between a Les Paul made by Gibson, and one made by me, is that the ones I make stay in tune and never need a headstock repair. It's not the building you work in that matters, it's the products leaving the building that count.
Awesome stuff. Please please also film the magnetizing and waxing parts of the process someday. (And no those things can't be done without pants / in your home / in an RV / in the driveway, how come you can get anything done professionally without a fancy office block and a huge factory lol)
So far, 2 people are real jealous because you dont have to wear pants.
lol! it's probably not as much of a benefit currently, but I love working from home.
Three now
Hey Dylan why do some single coils have magnets that are not even across the top two or three will stick up above the bobbin ?
They're called staggered like a single coil strat pickup you mean? there's a little mix of having to do with the curvature of the fingerboard, along with some strings sounding louder than others, and we've also changed gauges, I mean in terms of popularity... We went from heavy flatwounds, to discarding the low E, moving them all up (or down rather) and putting a thin gauge banjo string in place of the high E...man I remember as a kid going with my father in the car across a few counties to get some black diamond or La Bella strings which are only two companies I could even remember back then. Anyway the single coils with the slugs or poll pieces that are staggered-those were almost always made with the pole pieces being magnetized themselves as opposed to a magnet underneath them, and in the old days you'd crank up that guitar and the pull from the magnet could self-generate the string into feeding back, and I'm getting long-winded.... But a funny thing just came to me... I knew a very good bass player, college instructor and all around pro... He showed me his bass, telling me that it was about to go in to the shop for possibly extensive work, maybe moving the side fret markers possibly planing the fretboard, all because it wouldn't play in tune. Mind you it was a fretless, but he was a classically-trained jazz heavy, upright player who pretty much knew his stuff and how should it should be. Me being a strat player, it took me about one minute to figure out his pickups were too close to his strings and throwing all the harmonic content to heck. I lowered them, saved him a couple hundred bucks he bought me a beer and he started throwing me my first gigs... A guy named Joe Tater, 4 hours dinner music on, 45mins off and another four hours dance...80 bucks! I doubled on bass and guitar. if I remember right I think my apartment was 180 or 200 a month. I justremember the Toyota Corolla I drove to the gig I got from him also, I think for $100 because somebody swiped it coming around the corner bending in the driver side front wheel. I replaced the control arm rim and tire for less than fifty bucks, and put almost 300,000 on that
car. Wow all that for a couple turns of a couple screws. Haha this is what happens when an old guy butts in, bored from being shut in with this virus. And I've only scratched the surface of the question....... hahahaha.
Why use a red ground rather than a traditional black? Thanks for all the great vids.
just because it is my favorite color
@@DylanTalksTone Makes sense to me :) Here's another random question, is it possible to get a bridge Tele pickup with a white bobbin, rather than the ubiquitous black. I've even seen exotic wood pup covers, but almost a simple white bobbin. Thanks again!
Cool. How do you receive shipments? If you are in Colorado, Virginia, California...
we have a "home address" where our mail is handled. we have been working to ha e more inventory and order less frequently. I'm starting to figure it out
You’re a brave man Dylan...going pant-less whilst playing about with dollops of molten lead alloy.😆
As to where you made the bits & pieces that you do, e.g., where you you create, make, mod and repair the various and sundry wares and services you offer...
What difference does it make? None as far as I’m concerned.
If you’d never made a YT video or volunteered where and how you work, no one would have any idea what kind of facilities provide you a space from which you are able to create, make, mod and repair most things guitar related. You are able to offer the requisites of price, customer service and turnaround time; that is what matters.
Those who presumptively judge you and call you out because in their blindered assessment, your workplace isn’t adequately professional, such have got their priorities grossly misaligned. Having the business model that you do allows you to offer the aforementioned requisites and remain competitive with the other companies that offer the same.
How would I get a hold of these awesome,e pickups and how much do they cost
dylantalkstone.com
Your pickups will have that elusive motorhome mojo and that's a good thing!
I swear, you need bias-ply on your wheels if you want that vintage tone. If you put radials on it you lose SOOO much resonance in the pickups you wind there.
How do you know when you reach the correct amount of turns?
ah, there is a counter on the front of the winder. I will show you tomorrow on the LIVE tomorrow
DylanTalksTone
Great!!!
How can we get a hold of you. Would like to get a price on a pick up or two
dylantalkstone.com
Why not run the bottom plate ground with a third lead, separate lead from the pickup's ground, so that the user could reverse the two pickup leads, to match the phase of another pickup, if need be? Obviously not necessary if someone buys a PAIR of pickups from you, but if they buy a single pickup from you, to run with another maker's pickup - that would be very nice to have to easily match phase between the two pickups.
we do it upon request. other boutique builders charge 15.00 for that
Sadly, MY day requires pants.
People make big deals out of little things. Pickups should sound good, who cares where they are made?
Are y’all following Phish?
no lol
damn you how dare you live your life the way you want and dammit go put some pants on ...... you be safe and healthy out there
You shouldn't strip wire with your teeth in a time of damnpanic. You might be posting out SARS-CoV-2..