Home made guitar pickup (Start to finish)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Set of hand wound Stratocaster pickup, From assembly to wax potting. Using forbon bobbins, alnico V magnets, and 42 AWG heavy formvar magnet wire.
Thanks for watching and please comment.
Man, I just love Young Lust by Pink Floyd.
Extremely cool Scott. I wish we could've heard em though.
You can wind either direction, just wind the middle pickup in the opposite direction of the bridge and neck pickup to have hum cancelling in the 2 and 4 position.
Yes you could. The possibilities are endless. That is the fun and satisfaction of making your own pickups. I wish I had more time for experimentation but the guitar repair end of the business keeps me pretty busy.
Hearing "John Mellencamp"
on the radio - brought back a few good memories ☺
They really are remarkably simple. I thought more went into making a single-coil. Very cool video, thanks for sharing.
Also discovered that folding the wire back on itself on the end then twisting it with an allen wrench makes it tons to feed the wire into the eyelets(thanks Big D).
Thank you Scott for this! I definitely feel inspired and want to try to make my own gold foils for my Fender mustang. Thank you for the detailed instructions and the confidence boost.
Very interesting.Very nice info video.
Thanks
Scott
Great videos of your huge hands...
Thanks Scott.. Great video on how to make electric guitar pickups!!
Thanks for sharing and nice pups!
outstanding video, thanks
Love Gumbie and Pokey hanging out while you build
I like the stylistic choice to place the camera on the same table he is pounding on with a hammer, it brings a whole new level of shaky cam to cinema. And really vintage is just a buzz word. Make pickups with good tone/sound.
Daetalus67
I make many styles of Strat pickups and they all sound great. If you want to replace a dead PU in your 60s Strat (which I do often) then Vintage becomes very important. Magnet material, diameter, strength, height.bobbin material,wire gauge,coating and even using original cloth hookup wire is necessary.
Vintage... Vintage... Vintage vintage vintage vintage...
Wow. The marketing depts. of these companies really have guitar players by the balls. ^^
the tone has us by the balls not the marketing dumbo...
psadlkfpsk the word is used as a code word to describe making a pickup for sound instead of for profit only, and cutting through the endless sea of bullshit consumer-grade products.
Brian LaForge that's not the whole story... that vintage cloth-wound wire offers no tonal advantage.
It's for the vibe, guys who know what they are looking at like the older wire, work in a Vintage shop for a while & you use it all the time.
4:17 ... lol! Rolling Stones "Start Me Up" playing in the background, excellent timing!
Thank you very much for this video. Very educational!
hey. those are great looking pickups. i. i started my own businesses about 4 years ago doing this. i have never tried the lacquer before and that kinda got me thinking. those old spools of that nos wire is pretty tricky to wind with. great pickups man.
strat pickups with john frusciante in the background. I love it
I love this video... Great stuff scott.. I'm half tempted to try and build one myself..
Thanks for the comment! The NOS wire is definitely a challenge. I have a few spools I mostly use for vintage rewinds. It's great you do this for a living! I just wind for my customers when they ask but maybe in the future I will have the time to make more of a business out of it.
Nice video....I can't play but I want to learn to build, even if its just components like pick-ups.
Good afternoon. Excellent video. Please, I ask you to answer a few questions. How many turns of wire equals 5.83K? How many turns of wire equals 0.1K? Thank you very much for answering.
You have to use copper magnet wire. You can use wire with different coatings. I would suggest a 42 SPN (single poly nylon) when you are beginning as the cost is much less and easier to use.
I used a 42 AWG heavy formvar magnet wire because That is what Fender used during this time period (late 50's early 60's)
Just my fingers for tension. I had a tensioner set up and hated it. I like to feel the tension and control it as I go, It's just a mental thing with me. I watched your vid, the PAF's sound great!
Could you wind the first half of the coil with formvar wire, then somehow attach plain enamel wire to the end of the formvar wire and finish the second half of the coil with plain enamel wire ? It might sound really cool. The formvar part of the coil will be closer to the magnets, where the magnetic field is stronger, and the enamel wire will be farther away by will have more turns because is thinner. Might be a cool experiment who knows
great video!
This can be very complicated but very generally speaking, less turns will be brighter with less output and more turns get darker with less articulation between strings but more output. The fun is experimenting to find the sound you like!
I'm going to wind some custom pickups with 41 gauge heavy enamel (I'm using a slightly taller bobbin build and longer magnets to correct for the difference in wire thickness.) I guess I'll go for 8000 wraps. I'm also going to make a non-magnetic pickup to act as a dummy coil. I haven't totally decided how I'm going to substitute the magnets on that yet, but I'm thinking that if I'm careful I can probably use dowel rods.
sounds pretty cool. That would make an interesting video.
Vintage is Voodoo. But your Work are very good. Thats the reason to pay more for the Pickups. Otherwise the magnets are also importent for the sound (output gain)
It depends on the sound you are looking for. For a classic sound a good place to start 5.8=bridge 5.7 middle 5.6 neck
FYI.. an engineer's opinion, use a rubber hammer. Hitting magnets like that, especially with a metal hammer will change their magnetic properties.
thanks for watching! I wasn't actually hitting the magnets with the hammer but a spacer that fits between them. I did not show it but I charge the mags again after potting. I do have a vid showing the process.
Scott thanks for clarifying that.. Also love the video and those look like some nice pickups! Cheers.
Good video, but can you put the camera directly above the winder showing your hand moving technique holding the wire feed method and how the pickup wire is gaining in size from left to right as it is being wound during the wire winding?
where to get these magnets? there are surely magnets with a different strength...How to determine it?
Few quoestions. Does it matter what material are the bobbins made of? For example could I use plastic or thin plywood? What's the wire thickness in millimeters? How does the size of those alnico studs affect the sound?
Something about Pink Floyd and working on electronics that just goes hand in hand.
i can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord ;D
Yes,you can use different materials for bobbins. .06350mm. Thicker magnets tend to sound louder and more aggressive. Thicker magnets also reduce the number of turns of wire you can get on a bobbin reducing output.
Thanks for watching!
I am very much a beginner when it comes to doing electrical stuff like this, but my love of electric guitars and how they sound has got my curiosity going and I have at my disposal a very cheap Strat copy, which I've taken apart. The main things I wanted to ask you are why did you have the magnets on the p'ups at differing heights, surely that could make it easy for the string to touch them? Did you make the wire winder yourself? One for the UK, why do Americans say solder like saw-der, and in UK we say it like soul-der? Thanks for the vid
One question about your technique- what role do Gumby and Pokey play? Would other claymation characters work just as well? I have a Mr Bill but don't know if I'll get the same pre-CBS vintage feel. But seriously, great video. Thanks for posting.
very helpful
I do luvs me some pickups, very interesting i must say, gona try this myself ,when get all i need. Subscribing btw. Thx
I use Neodymium magnets to charge the Alnico rod magnets.
They look indentical to a fender tex-mex set i have except for the color of one of the lead wires :) Do you have a video of their sound?
I haven't tried the Schatten winder. I like the SideWinder. I have the right side setup for single coil width and the left side setup for humbucker width. Since the bottom is dark green, I put white computer paper over it so I can see the wire go on. haha.
I wind a lot slower than you... are you using just your hand for the tension? I'm trying to figure out how to make a tensioner so my hands can just worry about the winding pattern.
BRAVO!
To check for a short in the coil and to make sure im where i want to be when making a matched set of pickups.
Please make another video for making soundhole pickups
This vintage look is very cool..but, I always have a problem with B string...its a little bit quiet among others..
Have you ever designed and built rail-style pick ups?
waxing will prevent microphonics and feedback. the number of winds, the wire gauge, and thickness of the bobbin are all equally important, to few winds will produce a very thin, weak, and trebly pickup. too many winds make a high output pickup without clarity and very muddy. finding the balance is the tricky part.
Won't different resistance readings give an indication of how much winding there is?
It does covering from start to finish, yet I don't get how to hook the wire to the eyelets, what if we reverse the winding but not the polarity of the pole pieces for the mid pu, thanks anyway, and the mono tone voice over too
What a great job!!!!I am a 35 year guitar player and have never seen this done. Would you consider this skatter wiring?
Please place your camera a little differently, difficult to see the process. Thanks :)
Hey Scotty boy! We have the same name haha. Can you give some advice on how I could get started in making guitar pickups, and the equipment that I would need in order to begin this kind of endeavour. Many thanks!
I have that same winder! Except the wooden bottom is green. What's the red switch above the on/off switch?
A person who makes his own pickups can only have Pink Floyd & Stones in the background :D
can i used different type of wire instead magnet wire?pliz give me some suggestion tq =)
It's a reverse switch. How do you like it? Way more power than that POS Shatten winder. It's light weight, takes up very little space and I wish I had two......
great pickups, want to build for my cigar box style instruments, is waxing necessary and how much variation can happen with the number of winds, thanks for posting
Hi, I got a microphonic pick up. It wasn't when I buyed the guitar. I wax potted it myself and it's still microphonic. It's a humbucker with a nickel cover. Have you any input why the wax potting didn't work? Can my pick-up be "dead"?
BTW, what would be the "vintage" sound? 🤔
Thanks for posting this, I found it really informative. Any idea where to look for the winding machine you use & the hot glue pot? I am up in Vancouver, B.C. but come down to Seattle 2-3 time per year for guitar stuff. Do you have a store down there? I was just down to Seattle for the Guitar Show in Kent last month.
Thanks for watching. The glue pot is from Stewmac, The winder is no longer manufactured .
Bummer on the winder but thanks for the info on the glue pot! I subscribed to your channel and look forward to more great vids from you. Thanks.
the number of turn only effect the sound produced right?if i used less no of turn i might have slow sound produced right?
what is the purpose taking the resistance value after the winding?
I have a question? This is my first time trying to build. I just want to know which side of the coil is positive or negative? many thanks. cheers
in the sense of clockwise or counterclockwise
Very nice video Mr. Scott!!! I have a CS69 Fender in my FSR 2009 Strat. In your opinion, can I hamer, without damages, the poles to improve more volume on the B and E(high) strings? Are too much weaks than the others... I adjusted the width of pickups, but the problem still there. The D and G too much louder then... Can you help me? Thank you. Rgds from Brazil.
what is type of wire u used to wind the magnet n what is the number of turn?
noticed the opposite locations of the start and finish locations for the lead wires and color i think match the start and finish ends, whats the reason for that , also i've seen some of these that have a heavy string winding cover over the wire winding [ also included in the potting wax], regards
I am not sure if i understand the question. the middle pickup is reversed wound and reverse polarity and has a yellow lead to distinguish it from the bridge and neck.
Scott lajoie
On some (10 string pickups) that I built in '62 the "start" [inside] end connected to the "hot" lead, and the finish end of bobbin was the ground, at the time it seemed to make common sense even though I had very limited information, asking others to the point of being a pest.
on youtub at least some other information the finish end of bobbin winding is terminated to the "hot" lead wire, then it follows that the wire start of winding is connected to the ground lead. I was trying to determine if that is true on each of your pickups?
regards
LLuE88 Yes, The start of the coil is ground and the finish is hot.
hello how do tou do if you have a knot in th bobin before ending ?
noticed on all of this style pickup that the magnet tops are varied in height about the same on all i've seen, ??? are the magnets varied in length or just positioned differantly? regards,
on many vintage reproductions the magnets are staggered. the actual magnets are the same diameter but each one a different length.
Great video sir...I am a beginner in this business and wonder...would using silver wire & Neo magnets make a higher quality?
short?what do u mean by short in the coil?how possibly it could happen?
Can you tell me about wax mix up. Witch chemical you used. And the dipping process. Maybe i cant understand... Please help me out...
Thank in advance.
What is the measurement of the spacer that you use when putting the bobbin together?
it could be you didn't pot them long enough or check that your pickups are mounted securely.
In today's world of unwound G strings and flatter fingerboards, are staggered pole pieces really needed?
hi I am using neodymium magnets for the poles of my pick up. Do I need to charge them??? If not, I have tried connecting the pick up and its not working. I went through all the steps you showed
Can you make a lipstick pickup? That would be cool. Have you ever broken it? If you did I guess you'd just have to start over. Has anyone ever made pickups with one big magnet instead of 6 little ones? Just curious.
Sorry for the very late reply. I have been very busy lately.....I do make Lipstick pickups. Maybe i will do a video on that soon. If you break the wire you can solder it back together but i just start over. I do make single coil pickups with one magnet. It's a blade style.....Thanks for watching
Scott lajoie Okay, thanks.
Hi Scott, thanks for your video it's very interesting... May I ask you a question? By pulling out the pickguard of my strat, I guess I accidentally broke one of my pups right in the spot where you make those few wraps inside through the eyelet and around the edge of the bobin.. Haven't checked already but it seems to me that everything work normally as usual... Does this affect the tone or compromise it someway? Sorry for my english and for my dumb question! cheers
if you broke the wire to the coil it would not work at all. if the pick up still works then no worries....
hello thanks for video, may iknow what number of winding to get high output humbucker pickup range 11k - 17k?? and how many for vintage single like texas special sound??
Hi great video. I was just wondering how you magnetize your pole pieces? I've noticed that most are supplied un-magnetized. Many thanks.
Vintage stagger? Okay other than .187 magnets, how long and ho many of each one?
Hi there. Great video: really interesting. Are there any websites or books you could recommend on this subject? I have a lot of questions but don't want to ask you because you must be very busy
how to calculate how many laps have been made?
Wondering what your spool of wire rides on. Do you have it on a shaft? I'm setting up a winder and using a sewing machine with a counter. Having a little trouble with the wire developing slack then pulling and breaking. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks👍😎🎸🎶
Set the spool vertically on a stool or small table under the hand that's holding the wire.
@@rpack78 ok...thanks a lot for the tip! I was just thinking about that a little while ago!👍😎🎸🎶
How does Gumby and Pokey figure into all of this?
why not to bobbin each core instead one Getting 6 series coils clockwise o counterclockwise
Can you please tell me where or how you acquired your pickup winder? Thank you.
can i know the reason y u used this type of magnet wire?
hello
Can you tell me winder showing what mode ?
Does it make any real difference having the outermost coils closer to ground? I don't mean out of phase with another pickup, I mean when only that pickup is selected
Awesome ! Do you make humbuckers?
Thank you, check my channel, I have two videos on making a humbucker.
where do you find those plastic pickup plates?
Nice video!, My question is :What is the use on using wax? Does this hold the wire more firmly?
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Thanks!
stops microphonic vibrations inside the pup
those are neodymium magnets right?
steve nickson!!!