Matt

thanks psw, the sustainer I have not made yet, its fairly simple and am afraid its nothing like the hex version that you seem to be nursing through its first few stages. but ill post you when i get around to making it. really the aim of my idea was to experiment with different ways in suping up the output without getting to complicated. Matt

Thanks. Ive just found out a useful bit of info for anyone thinking of making a bladed PU, stanley-knife blades are good conductors of magnetism, and plus they are cheap and already blade-like. Matt

Ok sorry, I understand i was being a bit pedantic and I dont expect everyone to spoon feed me everything. I would have done the Patent search earlier, but i had not seen the numbers. Matt PS sorry this is a bit off the original issue

Thanks guys I have actually done alot of research over the past 6 months or so, Really what I wanted to know, was some idea of the guage of wire. I thought it might be 44. Ive managed to get some rare earth magnets, so im planning now to use them as small poles, or at the bottom connected to blades. These are BL**DY strong, so im going to have to have the PU set pretty low. does anyone know how hard it is to wind using 44 or 45 wire? PS in the DGB website, looking at the specs for the humbuckers, in the 2nd bit theres three sets labbeled RG WG RK what does this mean? cheers Matt

yea i was looking at those but i was wondering if anyone has any idea how they work or how i could make one? i think they are basically normal coils turned on their side with neo magnets and three sets of poles. Anyone know what a triple blade pickup in this arrangement would be like?

Does anyone have an idea how id wind a pickup like tha dimebucker, for example what sort of wire should i use, and would this be achieveable using a sewing machine. i hope to use this as a start to a more major project. Matt

yea cheers for the post, for now ive done some thinking and i reckon the hex pickup system maybe a little advanced for me at this stage, so im now gonna look at winding my own dimbag darrel pickup. but i haven't much to go on. anyone know what wire i should use? Matt

Ok well i think its probably a shoot off between the motherbucker and the dimebucker. cheers for the posts, does anyone know what would give better harmonics? really i want to now how to wind one as i have half of the stuff i need to wind one already, plus i got hold of some rare earth magnets, so they should sup it up a bit as well!! Matt

besides the custom PU is £100 so ony £20-30 more than a SD or DM Matt

well i was really just looking at a range of opinions, i had considered the motherbucker for a long time, but then the dimebucker caught my eye, as well as the Evo. Does anyone have any ideas for example pickups that i could try and wind myself? As i said im quite interested in the dual-resonance coil thingy- any idea's? I thought about 5500-6000 turns of AWG 41 and 43 ????? Cheers Matt

OK well my guitar is sitting on the workshop table in two bits ready to have its final sanding, touch ups and glueing the neck. but im stuck for choice of what pickup to put in the bridge. I want something that would be really hot and great for distortion (not too bothered about clean as long as it sounds half decent), something that would scream and spit harmonics. heres what i was thinking:- SD Dimebucker Dimarzio Evolution Bill lawrence 500XL Kent armstrong Motherbucker (www.wdmusicproducts.com) Kent armstrong ultra distortion SD invader SD full shred really i want something thats quite trebley and middly with alot of output, not too muddy, I was thinking of building my own PU, and was looking at winding a PU like an Evolution with coils of different guages, but apparently this could be hard to do as it would give unexpected results anyhow has anyone got any opinions or how i might wing a PU to my specs? either that or ill get www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk to do it as they are bloody ledgends!! - and make VERY nice PU's. cheers Matt

ok well ive just drawn out the fret positios on the fingerboard. i got the dimentions form a fret calculator thing and so id expect them to be fairly accurate. BUT i combared it with my strat (they are both the same scale length) and the frets star to go out from about the 8th and are up to 1-1.9mm out or shorter that what my squier strat has. will this make a difference and what could be wrong? im pretty sure i havn't made a mistake in the marking and measuements. Matt

thanks guys, because my fretboard is so thick, it means that for the same overall thickness of the neck, the back of the neck piece has to be thinner.

well looking at the Dimarzio patent, it says it uses wires of different guages with the same number of turns, to give two different resonant frequencies, but also to keep the humbucking effect with the same number of turns. Does anyone know what they might be doing? Or even better does anyone know how i might be able to achieve the desired effect anyway, i was thinking of AWG 41 and 43 to keep the higher freqs, but I want a higher output than the evo. I suppose having coils of different resistant would give different res. freqs. but also would not humbuck verywell?

Im making a neck out of birdseye maple and have glued the thing together The fretboard (ebony) is really thick (about 6mm), and ive put the truss rod in, but what is the minimum thickness to be safe with between the truss rod and back of neck, so that there is no danger of the neck either snapping or the truss rod preasure cracking the back of the neck? Matt

I really like the fact the body shape follows the contours and markings of the wood!!

OK well i think ive got an idea how to do it. I was using the different guage wires but same number of turns to try to create the Dimarzio evolution humbuckers way of getting more harmonics let say the core dia of these things is about 6.5mm for a 5mm core, with the overall dia of the top and bottom plate 10mm? I thought of small cotton bobbins but didn't now where to get any or if they come that small. Matt

Hi, Im wondering aout winding a hex type pickup in humbucker style. So have two sets of 6 individual pickups. But im stuck on how to make cylindrical bobbins with a 5mm dia hole for the pole/magnet. and the whole thing to have a dia of 10 mm (so they can fit in a line together) Also im wondering if these would need an preamp. im hoping to wind one set with AWG 41 and the other set with AWG 43. The boobins also need to be about 10mm tall. Has anyone any ideas? ive herd of the using relays idea, but i suppose ud need a preamp for those as they wouldn't have much output. Matt

Hey whats with all the blood on the rose? how about having BURNING rose? i think that would look awsome if it was all burning and withered and wilting as it was burning sort of look. dunno how ud do it but anyway. Matt

Cheers psw that was quite helpful, thing is i dont know how to make the preamp, fuzz circuit, im not that electronically minded. But lets say i wound custom bobbins for each string, so one set being wound with 43 guage and another at 41 guage. would these have enough output not to need a preamp. i tyhought that having 6 seperate coils could mean u could get a better output? Matt

ok thanks alot.

Well i like making my own stuff and plus life is a learning curve so id like to learn from it. basically theres a manufacturer who makes pickups called 'hexdistortion pickups' which use transistors in the pickup to create the distortion link http://www.osmusictechnology.com ande im wondering how this is done.

Cheers, yea i have quite a bit of research but its just this thing thats bothering me, ive got most of everything sorted, such as a homemade sustainer and ive looked at a load of dimarzio patents as well as lace and SD for info.

Hey were those useful? the 'little gem' thing was soppose to not have any hum or EMI Matt

thanks but ive been there but noones answered my post