mikke

Its been done before:

Whats the EVO shape like? never heard of a EVO-named bass... (Steve Vais main Jem guitar is named evo though...)

kinda offtopic, but...

A way to prove this is by playing a string while damping it at the bridge. It still plays the same pitch untill you move your finger too far along or press too hard.

At least I can hear a difference in the pitch of my acoustic when i dampen it. and no, im not pressing hard or too far from the bridge, actually i dampen the strings as close to the bridge as it can be done so that the guitar actually dampens....(And as light as it can be done on my guitar... I dont actually have to press the strings really... just place my hand slightly touching 'em...)

the difference definitedly isnt a too noticeable or distracting, but it can be heard. at least i can. at least on my acoustic(its quite crappy one though so it might be the reason of the pitch change... i just cant figure out how )

Maybe the springs(not strings) are bad, and when you pull up, they adjust to the compression(is that the right word?), and when you dive low, they stretch?

Ive only used 13 sets and 10 sets and I think i like the 13's over tens.

Jotenki kummasti nyt mieleen hiipi olisitteko suomalaisia mahdollisesti....

Thats pretty cool looking project.... But quess what.

Im not sure are you aware of this but "lumi" means snow in finnish.

Ive been thinking about the rods for a while too...(actually, ever since i read about them at benreuters.de!)

But one thing Ive been wondering is that should the rods be solid or would hollow ones be okay?

Thats a nice looking guitar!

Maybe some of the components in the emg preamp are dead?

didnt he say bolt on neck? theres no glue put in the neck pocket of a bolt on.

or wait.. did i misunderstand something? sorry i have a little bit of a bad english, so i might sometimes misunderstand things.

I use mainly tens and nines, though i have used strings from 13 set, when i last time broke strings, cause i was too lazy to go to a msic shop and my bro had a spare set of thirteens

loved the thirteens, by the way.

i have a quite low action, i have only my crappy williams acoustic(with a hell of a lot fret buzz ,should fix that)

but then, one day... in school, i got to try a nylon-string (rather cheap quality) acoustic, which had an action so high that i could have put my mobile phone under the string with strings not touching it, and playing with it was just... amazing. loved that.

but high actions not good for me really, cos every once in a while i have problems with using too much pressure pushing the strings.... not good considering the fact that i play piano, plus i sometimes have the notes sounding out of pitch(although rarely, mainly when im nervous, i also often do have a light kinda touch to playing)

wish i could adjust my acoustics action though, would put it super high

+Does the kahler spyder lock the strings to the trem like in floyds

Wants to hear what it sounds!

Well a friend of mine has used the stuff thats meant for removing hair color from hair, and in his use it has worked.

Sorry for posting to a old topic, but could anybody explain me how the eerie dess swirl is done?

You won't find anyone willing to pull apart a perfectly good pickup to measure wire gauges! Howerver...a little research got me this...

Evolution Patent Summary

2. A transducer as in claim 1, in which said coil wires range in diameter between about 0.00078 inch and 0.00400 inch.

3. A transducer as in claim 2, in which the wire diameter of one of said coils is about 0.00249 inch, and the wire diameter of the other of said coils is about 0.00198 inch.

pete

And btw, that same patent is used in every single dimarzio pickup that has dual-resonance....

so most likely the wire thicknessess in that are just examples for the patent stuf....

That said, wire gauge is only one element of a pickups structure and sound. DiMarzio is renown for patenting anything and everything (different wire winding is not a unique concept for instance) and pursuing it if you were considering marketing such a thing as a product. Winding your own won't necessarily give you the same thing either, or even close.

In order to wind pickups to get a sound or "plan in your head" you will need to take a fair bit of research and understanding of various pickup elements (inductance, magnet strengths and qualities, turns, coil matching, etc) and a fair number of attempts and comparisons.

pete

Yes Im aware that there are many things, like for example the fred and breed both use alnico 5 as their magnets, but evo and evo2 use ceramic magnets...

I can tell you that the DiMarzio FRED has a DC resistance of 10.07K and a resonant peak around 5.34kHz - I got the resonant peak info straight from the engineering dept at DiMarzio via email. Maybe you can work the numbers backwards to figure out what gage of wire to use?

They should have the DC resistances for all of their pickups listed at their website. They don't include the resonant peak info on their website because they say there is no standard for measuring that, so they don't publish it.

I can also tell you from looking at DiMarzios patent documents, that on their humbuckers, they use a different gage wire for each coil. DiMarzio claims that by using two different wire gages with the same amount of turns on each bobbin improves the 60 cycle humbucking while improving frequency response.

I hope that helps...

Yes I know about the different wire gauges..... However im surprised to hear that they told the resonant peak.

This info has been quite helpful....

Just noticed the breed dont use the dual-resonce coil patent....

Anybody?

Just got another idea... read from the "edit:" thing down this post if you dont wan

So somebody who owns one of those (and something that could be used to measure the copper wire's thickness), If some one of you wold be kind enough to measure the thickness of the copper wire(s) in the coils, Id like to know it. All those models propably have the wires a bit different for different frequency wariation, but... Id like to know the copper wires thickness of any of those. Note that as far as i know, the wires are different in both coils, so id like to know the thickness of both coils wires...

Please somebody? Id really like to know those things for the pickup plans I have in my head, creating the Right Sounding Pickup for Me an stuff.

Edit: Another way would be measuring te DC-resistance of another one of the coils... would be enough information for me about the pup