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I basically sit down and analyze each step in the winding process and do one step at a time. One of my oddest situations was when winding an old ’63 Telecaster Rhythm bobbin. Normally the average DC resistance would be about 7.6 K DC resistance for the particular number of turns that I use. Each…

Some early design of pickups the impedance was rated in ohms and 400 or 1000 Hertz (Hz). The majority of guitar and bass amplifiers are designed for high impedance guitar and bass pickups. Low impedance pickups often have a step-up transformer so the player can use low impedance directly into a recording board or high…

The DC resistance can vary from pickup to pickup on the same instrument being measured. The DC resistance is basically telling you what the resistance is for the length of wire being used on that particular pickup. The tone of an instrument is also determined by many factors such as wood, finish, bridge, string gauge,…

This would be a project for you as there are many variations in the number of turns on the many model of Duncan, Gibson, Fender, DiMarzio and other pickup manufactures. Find some old broken pickups and count as you remove the magnet wire turn by turn. It would take you some time but it will…

Here are a few of my own suggestions and other friends of mine. Don’t realign or push the poles down on single coil pickups. Vintage design pickups usually have the magnet wire in direct contact with the pole pieces. The older sand cast magnets have pits and voids where the magnet wire can settle as…

Plating is the method of covering the covers with a thin coat of metal done by electrodeposition. The gold used on covers is usually 24 karat in color and uses a specific chemical process in combination with or without electricity. Plating is used to keep the metallic object from either rusting or oxidizing over time….

You can split a humbucker by connecting a lead wire to the two finish wires in each coil. When you connect the lead wire to ground, it shorts one of the coils out leaving one coil operative. When you split a Gibson style humbucker, the stud side or non-adjustable side is operative and the adjustable…

The most common way is to look for the black hookup wire. The majority of pickup companies connect the black and ground wire to the beginning of the coil. The beginning of the coil is wound directly to the rod magnets in vintage style single coil pickups. Looking at the pickup from the top and…

Normally hardware used on musical instruments is either machined, cast or fabricated with some material suitable and plated either to cover up the cosmetic appearance of the bare or raw material or plated for longer durability. Many pole pieces are in their natural cast state and are not plated and as the instrument is played…

The term BOM mean bill of materials and is important when manufacturing products. It’s basically the list of all items that are used to make a product. You can have a part number, inventory, location, vendor, cost and amount used in making a product. A simple BOM list for a pickup can be as follows…