Searcy String Works - How to make a guitar pickup

A demo of what goes into making a custom order humbucker here at Searcy String Works. All the backing music was played and recorded by me this time.
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Music

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• Searcy
• String
• Works
• Pickups
• Humbucker
• Winder

[evilguitar9430]

where do you get the materials to build a pickup?

[SearcySW]

@evilguitar9430 Most of the parts in this video came from GuitarPartsUSAdotCOM

[conjering]

So can you give me the contact info for the winder?

[mohiitjaitly]

I m new to pickups..wanna know how to determine north and south...

[MalchikBlue]

You don't pot your pickups?

[veldtroche1]

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?.

[outofslumber]

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]

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]

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!!!

[KidWithABulletSoul93]

so the pickup winder was new?