When you solder the leader wires to the coils, don't you insulate these before wrapping around the coil? I would think there is a chance of these soldered joints to short out!. Do you wax the coils before putting them inside the covers? I know you say you send them to be waxed after they are complete, but does the wax penetrate into the windings, as you have already taped the windings up?.
How would you wire this, the url is cryptic or YT wont show it. I want to know what wires get sectioned of and joined and which then go to hot n ground and why does the biggest fattest black/bare wire cut the sound off completely? Dont copy and paste the URL its cryptic.
As soon as I taped the 2 wires wound to hot or gound and did the same with the other 2 i got sound, but the pickup had to be very high to get decent volume. Also the 5th thick wire (black) sometimes called bare, if I grounded it all sound was cut off imediately. Im very cnfused in that two wires are said to be twisted and sectioned off and the other two act as hot and ground. This would not work. And the wires to twist were supposed to be red n white. But have a look at the back of my pick up.
ive recently put a hot rail in my tele neck. 5 wires coming from the pickup was really confusing and advice i got was poor, but may have been for a big name p.u. mine i think is generic it was a gift. everything i was advised didnt work, the bridge is s.coil and i have a hot n ground routed into the neck cavity. i was advised to wire 2 together off the pup and section them off making it humbucking, then the remaing wires one to hot one to ground. Nothing!!!
Thanks to upload a video!!! good stuff you made there!!! tell me if i wanna order a pickup, can i do it by internet? you send it in all world? sorry for my english!!
@BIGSOULJAS you gotta realise that silver is a better conductor that copper.. which is why i think more number of turns are used to increase the inductance of the coil in order to get an output which is loud enough(if we speak of passive pickups) so if SD made an active pickup with silver, i think they were just wasting silver ...you see better conductor= lesser inductance= lesser output.. and since gold is a bad conductor of electricity i think you can make guitars with more bass with it :)
@fleeper4 Dude why not just save the money and buy a Bare Knuckle Pickup. You can find them used all over the internet and honestly by the time you scrounge up all the parts to make one that isn't as good you could just save a little more and get the real thing.
Where would you go about buying ceramic magnets? Those would be handy to keep around to change out in old shitty stock pickups but I can't seem to find any (other than ones you would have to fabricate yourself) is there a store that carries them?
And technically is this 5 strand wire because he seems to ground one of the wires to the base plate. Im assuming this 4 strand wire comes with a ground wire with no coloured insulation.
@outofslumber The bare grounding lead isn't typically thought of as a "wire" in guitar applications. When you look up wiring diagrams for 4 wire humbuckers on the web the information you see with pertain to pickups built in the manner shown in the video.
Its a great video. The only thing unclear to the newbie like me is the wiring. Which wires were twisted together and where do they get soldered to. Which are ground wires which are hot etc. Very confusing.
@outofslumber Which wire goes where depends on what you plan to do with the pickup. Its coils can be wire in series or in parallel. You can wire them in phase or out of phase. You can disconnect one coil so that you have a single coil sound. With enough switches there are hundreds of wiring possibilities. My color code is the same as that used by Seymour Duncan. If you go to his web site and look to "4 wire Humbucker" you can see some of the possibilities there.
@SearcySW Umm... Humbuckers aren't meant to be hand wound. You have voltage issues and sound problems with non parallel winding. Just thought you'd want to know.
@2011dtish21 Clearly you have no experience with guitar pickups. I have been building and restoring them for over 10 years now and I can tell you that all of the classic PAF Gibson humbuckers were hand wound. This is actually common knowledge.There are no "voltage issues and sound problems" with unequal windings which is what I assume you mean by "non parallel". I'm always happy for people to add information to these comments but please don't confuse people by just spouting off nonsense.
Hi! Back with another question XD 7:22 You put in a smaller piece of metal on the outside of the bucker... is that just a spacer to keep bobbin from wobling, or is that a magnet too? so like this: ''magnet (small)-coil-magnet(big)-coil-magnet (small)'' OR ''spacer-coil-magnet-coil-spacer''? Thanks in advance & VERY nice vid :)
@PitchBlackGuitarMan Correct. The magnet is the black thing that sits under and between the two coils. It's magnetic fiend is transferred through the coils and to the strings via that slug poles in one bobbin and the screw poles in the other.
@LTLfilms My shop and home are still being rebuilt so I'm not taking new orders just yet. If you friend Searcy String Works on Face Book you'll get a notice when I'm up and running again. Hopefully by Spring I'll be winding again.
@FatKidCookie You know... that hat died in a horrible natural disaster and I had to get an even newer hat ! Guess I'll have to make a new video so you guys can see it...
@guitarlord247 Yes you can. It's tricky though. You have to use 600 grit sand paprt and sand away some of the insulation. You may want to practyice this a few time on some magnet wire before you try it on a coil you're winding.
When your done winding the bobbins you will have a Start wire and a End wire. That's what are sticking out of the bobbins. It's important to keep track of which wire was the Start and which the End as you will need to know in order to wire it up properly.
Are the magnets giong to be isolated so that the copper wire dosent touch them? Also, if im gonna make a humbucker pickup, i just make two single coil pickups and wire them in a serie?
hi ! I want to know if its possiblle to convert a 2 conductor humbucker in to a 4 conductor . the reason that i want to ask is i want to put a push pull pot on my LP to achieve a out of phase sound on my bridge pickup.
Hey, great video! What's your average RPM winding speed? Do have any preferences when it comes to speed/tension when winding, or is it a personal feel?
@spunkybrewster1972 I havn't chance to tach this winder. The tension is just a matter of feel at this point. Too much tension and the wire breaks. To little and you get sloppy feed back.
hey i have a question. I recently took some single coils and paired them together to make a humbucker. it works great but is wired in parallel im gunna put either a push-pull pot or a switch of som sort to switch between parrell and series. the problem is that i dont know how to wire single coils into series..... i know there a way to do it but i havnt really found anything on it. if you can tell me how or at least tell me how a series humbucker is wired it would be greatly appreciated
where do you get the suplies to build a pickup? i know a place, but it doesnt have the right magnets or the right screw poles for that kind of pickup.
Searcy. quick question.. magnets provide different tones yes. would a simple magnet change change the sound. or would i haveto re-wind the whole thing??
Do you also have a video on how to wax a pickup? I am going to make an electric guitar as a school project (I know it's is a LOT of work, but I have a lot of time as well) and as I have no experience with it, I'm finding these instructional video's very helpful.
how would you make a stacked humbucker? i get all the wiring, its just the pole pieces. can i use the adjustable pole pieces and just make them go right through both bobbins? and also where would the magnet go? can i just put it underneath with the south side touching the poles?
lol i know, lotsa questions but it would really help me out alot with some answers.
its impressive how this is done. it's kinda similar to making a piezo pickup, only more complex. two q's though: where could i buy a baseplate/what can i use to substitiute a baseplate? also, what kind of cable was that at 5:27 for example that was connected to the baseplate?
I did pot these pickups. I mentioned that in the last 30 sec of the video. I wax or epoxy pot all my pickup unless I'm asked not to. Some folks like them a tad microphonic.
ok so say i dont really have all these crazy sick machines and that amazing hat. how much wire do i need for this and how strong does the magnet have to be
I'm so sorry to ask another question, so this is the last one. Where can you get a bar magnet like the one that you used, and how do u install? (I'm into hardrock, and my bands lookin for a new guitar sound, so rather than spend hundreds on a new pickup, I decided to do this!)
my dads an egineer, he can help me with wiring question, however i do have 1 other questions, 1: where do i get guitar bobbins. 2: Why do you did dip them in wax, and how do you do it?
The wax stops the wire from moving on the bobbin... if this happens bad things happen... microphince feed back can happen(sounds lkike crap)... as well as other bad bad things... long story short...
80/20 mix of perapin waxe to bees waxs will do you up right...
don't let the wax get too... hot(no hotter than 150)
Ok this is probably a bit of a n00b question but i'll ask anyway.
How do I know (if going by say, dimarzio's wire color code, and winding both coils the same way) which color wire to connect to each coil's start/end?
Naming "The Best" pickups is a highly subjective thing. Take the Les Paul for example. Are you trying to sound like Les Paul himself or Jimmy Page or Zakk Wild? Each of those players has a different sound that is perfect for them and each uses very different pickups.
It's all about what you feel is your musical voice.
1: The srewpoleblabla and the other non screweble poles (the 12 dots) are not magnetic at al? Because at other youtube films they magnetice the metal...
2: For metalmusic, how many windings is optimal (neck and bridge)and how thin is the wire? (what is #42 in mm or inch?)
3: In the beginning you mesured the Ohm? Resistance?
(like in question 2, what is the total optimal Resistance in Ohm per humbucker? neck and bridge)
1: The screw and slug poles are made of magnetically soft steel that will not hold a magnetic charge on their own. They do not become magnetic until they contact the actual magnet. Then they are charged as either North or South poles depending on what side of the magnet they are touching.
2: "Metal" means different things to different people. The pickup made in this video uses about 7500 turns on each coil. 42AWG is a standard for measuring wire diameters.
3: This was a bridge pickup. When the coils are combined on this humbucker it will read just over 13K. That's not super hot but it's hot enough to drive some heavy distortion. It was paired with a neck pickup that ran about 10K.I have made bridge humbuckers of 20K but I'm not crazy about them. They start to lose definition and are hard to get a clean sound out of. There is no optimal formula for making a pickup. One luthier I make pickups for wants his to be 7K and loves some as low as 4K.
Now I have to find a supplier in Europe that can sell me a big fat ceramic magnet and 0.0633 mm (#42 (42AWG)) coper wire. This is gonna be hard... Thanks again!
@rskid23 Ceramic magnets work fine for all sort of music. Joe Barden has been using them in his pickups for years. Gibson 496R and 500T pickup use ceramic magnets and are far from Metal monsters.
So can you give me the contact info for the winder?
conjering 2 days ago
I m new to pickups..wanna know how to determine north and south...
mohiitjaitly 3 weeks ago
You don't pot your pickups?
MalchikBlue 1 month ago
When you solder the leader wires to the coils, don't you insulate these before wrapping around the coil? I would think there is a chance of these soldered joints to short out!. Do you wax the coils before putting them inside the covers? I know you say you send them to be waxed after they are complete, but does the wax penetrate into the windings, as you have already taped the windings up?.
veldtroche1 2 months ago
How would you wire this, the url is cryptic or YT wont show it. I want to know what wires get sectioned of and joined and which then go to hot n ground and why does the biggest fattest black/bare wire cut the sound off completely? Dont copy and paste the URL its cryptic.
htt*://3'w's.allthechords.webspace.virginmedia.c-o-m/pickup-shematic.jpg
Any help or advice would be most gratefully recieved.
outofslumber 2 months ago
As soon as I taped the 2 wires wound to hot or gound and did the same with the other 2 i got sound, but the pickup had to be very high to get decent volume. Also the 5th thick wire (black) sometimes called bare, if I grounded it all sound was cut off imediately. Im very cnfused in that two wires are said to be twisted and sectioned off and the other two act as hot and ground. This would not work. And the wires to twist were supposed to be red n white. But have a look at the back of my pick up.
outofslumber 2 months ago
ive recently put a hot rail in my tele neck. 5 wires coming from the pickup was really confusing and advice i got was poor, but may have been for a big name p.u. mine i think is generic it was a gift. everything i was advised didnt work, the bridge is s.coil and i have a hot n ground routed into the neck cavity. i was advised to wire 2 together off the pup and section them off making it humbucking, then the remaing wires one to hot one to ground. Nothing!!!
outofslumber 2 months ago
so the pickup winder was new?
KidWithABulletSoul93 3 months ago
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how do you determine the pickup if it is a middy, treble and bass?
yvesttt 4 months ago
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yvesttt 4 months ago
great video!!! Do you wind both bobbins in the same direction? Does it matter in what direction you insert the magnet?
sli43 4 months ago
I gotta agree with Junk3t. Awesome video.
mm57677 4 months ago
This is out-and-out porn to a guitar geek like myself!
Junk3t 4 months ago
where do you get the materials to build a pickup?
evilguitar9430 5 months ago
@evilguitar9430 Most of the parts in this video came from GuitarPartsUSAdotCOM
SearcySW 4 months ago
Thanks to upload a video!!! good stuff you made there!!! tell me if i wanna order a pickup, can i do it by internet? you send it in all world? sorry for my english!!
abrumy 5 months ago
1:00 i got a new hat by the way :D
165ole 6 months ago
what is the fewwest amount of wraps so you can still hear it and what is the point of zebra humbuckers if it is covered
etrinityguitar 6 months ago
where would a person learn all the knowledge like you have on building pickups? Are there schools or courses out there ???
micmoable 6 months ago
Seymour Duncan has started to make pickups wound with silver my question is, is it worth it? and how would gold wound pickups sound?
BIGSOULJAS 6 months ago
@BIGSOULJAS you gotta realise that silver is a better conductor that copper.. which is why i think more number of turns are used to increase the inductance of the coil in order to get an output which is loud enough(if we speak of passive pickups) so if SD made an active pickup with silver, i think they were just wasting silver ...you see better conductor= lesser inductance= lesser output.. and since gold is a bad conductor of electricity i think you can make guitars with more bass with it :)
notdacoolest 6 months ago
WHERE IS TESTING? :)
andrynanquil 7 months ago
im doing this for a project at school. but i dont have an actual spin counter. whats the best way to wrap the coil with the acual machine?
iwishourbassowned 7 months ago
How many times should i wind a pickup if i want to make a BKP pickup and
will i need a ceramic magnet if i want it to sound like a metal guitar
fleeper4 7 months ago
@fleeper4 Dude why not just save the money and buy a Bare Knuckle Pickup. You can find them used all over the internet and honestly by the time you scrounge up all the parts to make one that isn't as good you could just save a little more and get the real thing.
bw2938 7 months ago
Where would you go about buying ceramic magnets? Those would be handy to keep around to change out in old shitty stock pickups but I can't seem to find any (other than ones you would have to fabricate yourself) is there a store that carries them?
MattixIcexBaby 8 months ago
And technically is this 5 strand wire because he seems to ground one of the wires to the base plate. Im assuming this 4 strand wire comes with a ground wire with no coloured insulation.
outofslumber 8 months ago
@outofslumber The bare grounding lead isn't typically thought of as a "wire" in guitar applications. When you look up wiring diagrams for 4 wire humbuckers on the web the information you see with pertain to pickups built in the manner shown in the video.
SearcySW 8 months ago
Its a great video. The only thing unclear to the newbie like me is the wiring. Which wires were twisted together and where do they get soldered to. Which are ground wires which are hot etc. Very confusing.
outofslumber 8 months ago
@outofslumber Which wire goes where depends on what you plan to do with the pickup. Its coils can be wire in series or in parallel. You can wire them in phase or out of phase. You can disconnect one coil so that you have a single coil sound. With enough switches there are hundreds of wiring possibilities. My color code is the same as that used by Seymour Duncan. If you go to his web site and look to "4 wire Humbucker" you can see some of the possibilities there.
SearcySW 8 months ago
how many times should i wind a pickup if I want to make a P90 pickup and with what size coil should I use, 42 or ,43?
KingsField418 8 months ago
@KingsField418 10,000 turns of 42ga will get you that classic Gibson P-90 sound.
SearcySW 8 months ago
@SearcySW Umm... Humbuckers aren't meant to be hand wound. You have voltage issues and sound problems with non parallel winding. Just thought you'd want to know.
2011dtish21 5 months ago
@2011dtish21 Clearly you have no experience with guitar pickups. I have been building and restoring them for over 10 years now and I can tell you that all of the classic PAF Gibson humbuckers were hand wound. This is actually common knowledge.There are no "voltage issues and sound problems" with unequal windings which is what I assume you mean by "non parallel". I'm always happy for people to add information to these comments but please don't confuse people by just spouting off nonsense.
SearcySW 5 months ago
@SearcySW i Work at Seymour duncan sir
2011dtish21 4 months ago in playlist GUITAR TECH
@2011dtish21 No.... you don't.
SearcySW 4 months ago
Hi! Back with another question XD 7:22 You put in a smaller piece of metal on the outside of the bucker... is that just a spacer to keep bobbin from wobling, or is that a magnet too? so like this: ''magnet (small)-coil-magnet(big)-coil-magnet (small)'' OR ''spacer-coil-magnet-coil-spacer''? Thanks in advance & VERY nice vid :)
Explorerrule 8 months ago
@Explorerrule It's a spacer. There were some pickups that used 3 magnets back in the 70's and 80's but that fad died out.
SearcySW 8 months ago
is one turn when winding the pickup a full wrap around or just half way around, so is it a 360 degree or 180 degree turn
WizzardClassHacks 9 months ago
@WizzardClassHacks
360 is 1 turn
outofslumber 8 months ago
@WizzardClassHacks One turn is one 360 degree run around the bobbin. Like a race car making one lap around the track.
SearcySW 8 months ago
humbucker is finaly 10 k dcm ?
francheskolini 9 months ago
What type wire is it? Copper I know, but what brand, guage, etc..
playguitarlars 10 months ago
Could you make gold covered gibson paf copies w/ one mounting hole for a hsh strat
rockystretch1 10 months ago
Do you do pickups for 8 strings?
MattixIcexBaby 10 months ago
@MattixIcexBaby I've made a few 8 string guitar pickups and a few 8 string bass pickups.
SearcySW 10 months ago
Aw you don't have to do all the fancy stuff with graphics and text. this was plenty fascinating on its own.
TheBigMclargehuge 11 months ago
KENNY POWERS!!!
ahahah thanks for posting these great vids, i'm learning a lot.
MrNixon79 1 year ago
@MrNixon79 step into my office lets do some blow
MattixIcexBaby 10 months ago
@MattixIcexBaby it was the egg rolls, not the ecstasy.
MrNixon79 10 months ago
What makes the sound difference between the pickups.The copper wire or the magnet?
nocrytonight 1 year ago
omm tell me all the metrial and how much it cost all toghter
1996PhYcOmExIcAn 1 year ago
tell me all the matrial u used and how much it cost all toghter well not the thing thats like a iron i have that
1996PhYcOmExIcAn 1 year ago
1 question : The 2 single coils don't have magnets in them ? right?
PitchBlackGuitarMan 1 year ago
@PitchBlackGuitarMan Correct. The magnet is the black thing that sits under and between the two coils. It's magnetic fiend is transferred through the coils and to the strings via that slug poles in one bobbin and the screw poles in the other.
SearcySW 1 year ago
how can i get a custom ordered pickup?
LTLfilms 1 year ago
@LTLfilms My shop and home are still being rebuilt so I'm not taking new orders just yet. If you friend Searcy String Works on Face Book you'll get a notice when I'm up and running again. Hopefully by Spring I'll be winding again.
SearcySW 1 year ago
@SearcySW awesome!! how much is just one custom humbucker?
LTLfilms 1 year ago
NEW HAT!!
FatKidCookie 1 year ago
@FatKidCookie You know... that hat died in a horrible natural disaster and I had to get an even newer hat ! Guess I'll have to make a new video so you guys can see it...
SearcySW 1 year ago
i have a question,using a digital multimeter,can you test the dc resistance of the pickup before cutting the coil wire?
guitarlord247 1 year ago
@guitarlord247 Yes you can. It's tricky though. You have to use 600 grit sand paprt and sand away some of the insulation. You may want to practyice this a few time on some magnet wire before you try it on a coil you're winding.
SearcySW 1 year ago
i need an multimeter measuring inducyance to do this right?how many henries or mh probably?must i get?
bombthesystemsnl 1 year ago
how do you make the pickups with one big, long magnet (like a DiMarzio X2N)? because i pretty much want an 8 string X2N.
deathcore1239 1 year ago
Yes you can.
SearcySW 1 year ago
can u use electrical tape instead of that other tape?
miners300 1 year ago
That "gizmo" at 2:39 is called a roach clip
acasale 1 year ago
hey man how do u hookup the lead wires
rskid23 1 year ago
hey if you could answer me a few questions i have about pickups would u please be able to email me ill send my email to you in ur inbox
nicksapps123 1 year ago
So funny and informative :D
apinakapinastorba 1 year ago
When your done winding the bobbins you will have a Start wire and a End wire. That's what are sticking out of the bobbins. It's important to keep track of which wire was the Start and which the End as you will need to know in order to wire it up properly.
SearcySW 1 year ago
when you wound each bobbins you had the 2 wires out, was that from the same line ? or did you have two ends of wire sticking out each bobbins ?
leegeddyfan 1 year ago
is that hard soldering or normal soldering?
CArebox3000 1 year ago
New New New haha
CountCane1994 1 year ago
Awesome man, totally awesome!!!!! I Absolutely dug you video!
MrBenCleaver 1 year ago
hey bro a very nice step by step video,,!! but i wanna ask something,, which kind of wires are you using..??
MohitThe1988 1 year ago
@MohitThe1988 I think I used 43AWG on this one.
SearcySW 1 year ago
where did you get your parts?
jykonrock 1 year ago
also what is the difference between making a bridge and a neck pickup?
jykonrock 1 year ago
@jykonrock You can get every part used on this video at the GuitarPartsUSA Website
SearcySW 1 year ago
Yes and yes
SearcySW 1 year ago
Are the magnets giong to be isolated so that the copper wire dosent touch them? Also, if im gonna make a humbucker pickup, i just make two single coil pickups and wire them in a serie?
forsoabba 1 year ago
i dont know where to place the magnets!can anyone be helpful?????
tdaiboo 1 year ago
@tdaiboo They go under the bobbins between the poles.
SearcySW 1 year ago
hi ! I want to know if its possiblle to convert a 2 conductor humbucker in to a 4 conductor . the reason that i want to ask is i want to put a push pull pot on my LP to achieve a out of phase sound on my bridge pickup.
GUITAPHIL 1 year ago
@GUITAPHIL It is. I'll do a video about this soon.
SearcySW 1 year ago
in the photos there were front plates with no holes. are they made the same.
LADYSMAN930 1 year ago
@LADYSMAN930 Yes
SearcySW 1 year ago
what was that little device you used to test the k of the pickups?
guitarlord247 1 year ago
@guitarlord247 That's a digital multimeter. It reads voltage and resistance. Set it to resistance to read how many K ohms your pickup is.
SearcySW 1 year ago
How many turns you have make for a single coil pickup?
ittnokia 1 year ago
@ittnokia For a Strat I like 7600 turns of 42AWG
SearcySW 1 year ago
Hey, great video! What's your average RPM winding speed? Do have any preferences when it comes to speed/tension when winding, or is it a personal feel?
Oh, and nice hat... ;-p
spunkybrewster1972 1 year ago
@spunkybrewster1972 I havn't chance to tach this winder. The tension is just a matter of feel at this point. Too much tension and the wire breaks. To little and you get sloppy feed back.
SearcySW 1 year ago
hey i have a question. I recently took some single coils and paired them together to make a humbucker. it works great but is wired in parallel im gunna put either a push-pull pot or a switch of som sort to switch between parrell and series. the problem is that i dont know how to wire single coils into series..... i know there a way to do it but i havnt really found anything on it. if you can tell me how or at least tell me how a series humbucker is wired it would be greatly appreciated
gorgainin 1 year ago
I'll send you a link...
SearcySW 1 year ago
@SearcySW Thanks
gorgainin 1 year ago
where do you get the suplies to build a pickup? i know a place, but it doesnt have the right magnets or the right screw poles for that kind of pickup.
mykittytoby 1 year ago
@mykittytoby Try searching for Guitar Parts USA
SearcySW 1 year ago
@mykittytoby go to stewmac.com they have alot of things for making pickups
rskid23 1 year ago
Searcy. quick question.. magnets provide different tones yes. would a simple magnet change change the sound. or would i haveto re-wind the whole thing??
MrGrumpyGinger 2 years ago
be kind rewind
ShitCrap 2 years ago
@MrGrumpyGinger I wold rewind it but idk if changing the magnet would do anything but buying another pickup would be easier then rewinding it
rskid23 1 year ago
thank you. i have watched a ton of these videos and yours is the first that i actually learned something from
floydfan831 2 years ago
same here. what you wanted to know right off the bat lol
MrGrumpyGinger 2 years ago
nice to know someone cares enough to actually put the information in the video that the title implies is there
floydfan831 2 years ago
Do you also have a video on how to wax a pickup? I am going to make an electric guitar as a school project (I know it's is a LOT of work, but I have a lot of time as well) and as I have no experience with it, I'm finding these instructional video's very helpful.
Arcenicum 2 years ago
Why do you say soddering? It blantently has an L in it.
RazorRoundMyNeck 2 years ago
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -- Abraham Lincoln
SearcySW 2 years ago
That's a lovely phrase but it still doesn't change the fact that it's pronounced soldering.
RazorRoundMyNeck 2 years ago
In the U.K. the "L" is pronounced. In America, where I live the "L" is silent.
"two countries separated by a common language"
SearcySW 2 years ago
I can see why this bothers you. When you here soddering it sounds like sodding...which last I checked was a bad thing... :-)
PuYanHui 2 years ago
can u use any magnet in pickups??
onofregarcia88 2 years ago
Just about any magnet will work. Traditionally Alnico and Ceramic is used.
SearcySW 2 years ago
i have searched here..they dont have those long small magnets u guys have..ive only seen round flat one's the hieght of 1/4 of an inch
onofregarcia88 2 years ago
also where did you get the solderable wire? i hate fileing off that stupid coating
Drokthemetalband 2 years ago
can you show me how to make the kontrol box? i have the lathe so if theres anything i need to know about it plz add it in too
Drokthemetalband 2 years ago
@Drokthemetalband i would just make a calculator into a counter and not mess with that box
rskid23 1 year ago
@rskid23 The calculator wired to a mechanical switch only works if you're willing to wind very slowly. Too slow for me.
SearcySW 1 year ago
what were all the thin colored wires for if they get tucked in???
earsBLEEDmetal1 2 years ago
@earsBLEEDmetal1
Those are the leads that will be attached to your switches and pots in the control panel at the other end.
SearcySW 2 years ago
they connected the pickup to the 4 conductor hook-up which will be connected to the guitar to make the pickups work
rskid23 1 year ago
its called a soldering mate i think
Semimentalman2 2 years ago
i have one of those gismo's, with a magnifying glass
Semimentalman2 2 years ago
i have the helping hand to
amast3rMind69 2 years ago
thanks for putting this video up. very well explained and very much apreciated. 5*+ ^^
afrorory 2 years ago
hey great video 5*
how would you make a stacked humbucker? i get all the wiring, its just the pole pieces. can i use the adjustable pole pieces and just make them go right through both bobbins? and also where would the magnet go? can i just put it underneath with the south side touching the poles?
lol i know, lotsa questions but it would really help me out alot with some answers.
thanks
4Get2Crunkin0 2 years ago
Sounds like you have it figured out! Look up some information on a Gibson P-100 and you will see something very much like you are describing.
SearcySW 2 years ago
its impressive how this is done. it's kinda similar to making a piezo pickup, only more complex. two q's though: where could i buy a baseplate/what can i use to substitiute a baseplate? also, what kind of cable was that at 5:27 for example that was connected to the baseplate?
Aldotheapache66 2 years ago
GuitarPartsUSA has the base plates and the 4 lead wire.
SearcySW 2 years ago
@Aldotheapache66 4 conductor hoop-up wire the bare is attached to the baseplate for ground
rskid23 1 year ago
I noticed you didn't pot the pickups,
why is this?
skatepark02 2 years ago
I did pot these pickups. I mentioned that in the last 30 sec of the video. I wax or epoxy pot all my pickup unless I'm asked not to. Some folks like them a tad microphonic.
SearcySW 2 years ago
how much are you pickups?
DyingxInYourArms 2 years ago
Depends on the pickup. These are $130 each.
SearcySW 2 years ago
How many turns are the coils mis-matched by?
EuropeFactor 2 years ago
Just a few hundred turn. One has 6100 turns and the other has 5700 of wire.
SearcySW 2 years ago
Good vid searcy .
peterm3964 2 years ago
he's skipping parts on purpose. the only good thing about him is his new hat!
chrisekelman 2 years ago
Really? What part did I skip?
SearcySW 2 years ago
the part where you get kicked by a ninja monkey
(thnx for the video it was helpfull for me)
238lamain 2 years ago
Ninja monkey no can defend against power hat of doooooooooommmmm!
SearcySW 2 years ago
ok so say i dont really have all these crazy sick machines and that amazing hat. how much wire do i need for this and how strong does the magnet have to be
guitarguru333 2 years ago
wait... where do the magnets go?
LDawgydog27 2 years ago
You can see it going in at about 7:00
SearcySW 2 years ago
I'm so sorry to ask another question, so this is the last one. Where can you get a bar magnet like the one that you used, and how do u install? (I'm into hardrock, and my bands lookin for a new guitar sound, so rather than spend hundreds on a new pickup, I decided to do this!)
huzapro0 2 years ago
my dads an egineer, he can help me with wiring question, however i do have 1 other questions, 1: where do i get guitar bobbins. 2: Why do you did dip them in wax, and how do you do it?
huzapro0 2 years ago
also, how do you do the cool designs?
huzapro0 2 years ago
Epoxy magic!
SearcySW 2 years ago
You can get the parts on line at Guitar Parts USA.
SearcySW 2 years ago
now sorry to ask so many questions, but is the spacer only for if you add in the large bar magnet?
huzapro0 2 years ago
The plastic spacers help the bobbins sit flat. They are handy to have but you can make your own out of wood.b
SearcySW 2 years ago
Wax potting prevents microphonic feed back.
SearcySW 2 years ago
The wax stops the wire from moving on the bobbin... if this happens bad things happen... microphince feed back can happen(sounds lkike crap)... as well as other bad bad things... long story short...
80/20 mix of perapin waxe to bees waxs will do you up right...
don't let the wax get too... hot(no hotter than 150)
ArkAngelHFB 2 years ago
Well said!
SearcySW 2 years ago
Ok this is probably a bit of a n00b question but i'll ask anyway.
How do I know (if going by say, dimarzio's wire color code, and winding both coils the same way) which color wire to connect to each coil's start/end?
BlackHawk2029 2 years ago
Adjustable Pole Start = Green , Finish = White Slug Pole Start = Red, Finish =Black
SearcySW 2 years ago
Thanks a ton.
BlackHawk2029 2 years ago
@BlackHawk2029 look on stewmac.com they have all the color codes
rskid23 1 year ago
do you wax pot those?
screamsofinsanity 2 years ago
That set of pickups did get wax potted before they were sent out. .The Saturn set that I make does not get wax potted.
SearcySW 2 years ago
You make handling such fine wire look easy. GREAT VIDEO!!
trideciple 2 years ago
what pickups are best for a gibson les paul or epiphone or a fender strat
tippytheman667 2 years ago
Naming "The Best" pickups is a highly subjective thing. Take the Les Paul for example. Are you trying to sound like Les Paul himself or Jimmy Page or Zakk Wild? Each of those players has a different sound that is perfect for them and each uses very different pickups.
It's all about what you feel is your musical voice.
SearcySW 2 years ago
Got some questions:
1: The srewpoleblabla and the other non screweble poles (the 12 dots) are not magnetic at al? Because at other youtube films they magnetice the metal...
2: For metalmusic, how many windings is optimal (neck and bridge)and how thin is the wire? (what is #42 in mm or inch?)
3: In the beginning you mesured the Ohm? Resistance?
(like in question 2, what is the total optimal Resistance in Ohm per humbucker? neck and bridge)
Thanks a lot for this film, it helped me a lot!
Explorerrule 2 years ago
1: The screw and slug poles are made of magnetically soft steel that will not hold a magnetic charge on their own. They do not become magnetic until they contact the actual magnet. Then they are charged as either North or South poles depending on what side of the magnet they are touching.
2: "Metal" means different things to different people. The pickup made in this video uses about 7500 turns on each coil. 42AWG is a standard for measuring wire diameters.
SearcySW 2 years ago
3: This was a bridge pickup. When the coils are combined on this humbucker it will read just over 13K. That's not super hot but it's hot enough to drive some heavy distortion. It was paired with a neck pickup that ran about 10K.I have made bridge humbuckers of 20K but I'm not crazy about them. They start to lose definition and are hard to get a clean sound out of. There is no optimal formula for making a pickup. One luthier I make pickups for wants his to be 7K and loves some as low as 4K.
SearcySW 2 years ago
Thanks a lot for the info!
Now I have to find a supplier in Europe that can sell me a big fat ceramic magnet and 0.0633 mm (#42 (42AWG)) coper wire. This is gonna be hard... Thanks again!
Explorerrule 2 years ago
@Explorerrule it doesnt have to be a ceramic magnet unless ur a metal head
I would use an Alnico Magnet but thats my opinion
rskid23 1 year ago
@rskid23 Ceramic magnets work fine for all sort of music. Joe Barden has been using them in his pickups for years. Gibson 496R and 500T pickup use ceramic magnets and are far from Metal monsters.
SearcySW 1 year ago
what direction is a neck humbucker spun? both pieces
fireitup9 2 years ago
You can wind them both in the same direction so long as you link them together right.
SearcySW 2 years ago
good lessson !!
snimrod6 2 years ago
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shytu 2 years ago