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The wrapping around the inner core (spring steel) of most guitar strings are made from a non-ferrous material such as bronze. Bronze is an alloy of copper, tin and zinc. Bronze is not attracted to the magnetic field in a guitar pickup. You can get sounds out of a acoustic guitar string because the inner…

For years players have customized their guitars by adding different types of pickups to get that all-in-one sound. Albert Collins and Keith Richards put humbuckers in the neck position of their Telecasters and Alvin Lee from “Ten Years After” put a Stratocaster pickup in between the two humbuckers on his Gibson ES-335. Years ago Eddie…

Normally the lower 4 strings of acoustic guitar strings are wound with a non- ferrous alloy (usually bronze). The E-1st, B-2nd and inner core of the 3rd to 6th string are made from a ferrous material called spring steel. When plucked it will move the magnetic field in the pickup and generate an alternating current…

The pickups can be made with a staggered pole piece pattern similar to a Fender Stratocaster. The arrangement of the pole piece give the pickup a string balance but also is important to the tonal character of the pickup. By lowering or raising certain poles the pickup will have it’s own inner phasing due to…

You’re trying to achieve the same pickup angle as Jimi Hendrix. Jimi was left handed and played a right handed guitar. You are right handed and should play a left handed guitar to achieve the same results. If your using a right handed guitar and want the pickup slanted, here are few things you need…

Always keep then protected and wrapped using paper towels and keep in a safe place. Pickups are very delicate and if one turn of magnet wire gets broken, the pickups can quit working. On Fender Stratocaster pickups the older pickups used 42 Formvar and later 42 Plain Enamel. The diameter for 42 Plain Enamel is…

I wouldn’t suggest it for several reasons. The pole spacing on the Jaguar is narrower than the Stratocaster,and the Strat pickguard would have to be modified to fit the Jaguar pickup with existing cover and steel claw. The pickup needs to be tapped 6/32 to accommodate the two height adjust screws. I would suggest finding…

The larger the diameter of the string, which is often called “music wire”, is actually spring steel. The increase in diameter moves more of the magnet field through the coil thus producing a stronger signal to the amplifier. I remember a band in Southern, New Jersey during the mid sixties called the “Sterling Brother” and…

The pickups will fit into the older style Firebird mounting rings and modification has to be done to have height adjustment. On the Deluxe mini humbuckers the height adjustment is done with a spacer between the leg and modified P-90 cover. The 3/48 machine screw is screwed into a threaded ferrule pressed into the bottom…

During the early days of Fender they used a company called Race and Olmsted which was near the Fender plant in Fullerton, California. They used a treatment called case hardening or surface hardening of the steel bridge plates. The surface hardness of steels can be changed by a surface hardening treatment. This can give the surface of the steel…