Rish's Lego Pickup Winder

Rish's Lego Pickup Winder made with NXT Mindstorm

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Howto & Style

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• Lego
• NXT
• Minstorm
• Pickup
• Winder
• Guitar

[zeppeled123]

how do you get all this wire???

[caulinrocker1]

@zeppeled123 1 spool can make many pickups ... you can get them on stewmac

[RishPickups]

@caulinrocker1 : I worked it out a while back, I think I made 5 pickups of around 7700 to 8000 winds from one spool (that said I had a few winds break) but I wanted lower output pickups. So I limited my winds to 8000 as a max.

[RishPickups]

@zeppeled123 Hey there sorry for the delay in the response. Quite correct StewMac is a great site for this sort of thing. Not so easy to get it in Europe though. So I had to import it from the US and Canada. I got everything else from StewMac. They are fantastic.

[ChrisWoodle]

This is genius.

[Burntoast2000]

Cool lego winder!

[LollarGuitars]

this is funny- the first pickup winding machine i made was very similar- some sort of lego set and I made it guide the wire back and forth automatically with a wire guide on a plastic lego worm gear track with a reversal switch on each end of the track- that was 1979.

[JonDeth]

@RishPickups the flip side to that tonal outlook is of course, a pickup with a dominant midrange spike and adequate bass. I notice pickups with a VERY dominant midrange hump produce a flux that gives a near wah effect to their "yahw".

That means big buck name brand, trying dozens of boutique brands or building your own to find this characteristic. Hopefully I build my own soon as I have also invented a new type of pickup.

[JonDeth]

@RishPickups I feel pickups primarily just need to be quiet and sufficient output with a balanced frequency spectrum production. A nice "yahw" sound is also preferable. I use primarily boutique brand pickups as they tend to be cheap and very high performance. Most are coming out of Korea who is known to produce the best outsourced parts in the world and I tend to agree.

I engineer and build my own overdrives/preamps so virtually any pickup sounds good through them, granted they're noiseless.

[RishPickups]

@JonDeth I have worked with many pickups over the years, and by all counts there are really just a few from varied manufacturers that I like. But there is nothing more satisfactory then making your own. You make it to spec of your amp and the effects you use. It takes time to get there, but the result is finding your own sound, which is best for you and makes you unique.