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Thanks. There's a good source of info about Fenders pickups over at the links in Ampage. Did you mean i should overwind all of them or the bridge one?
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I wanna make three singles for a strat style knockoff. It has a Basswood body, Maple neck and some wierd fretboard wood I've never heard of (Sonokilin or Sonokeling anyone?) I was pretty much planning on making the earlier vintage Fenders, but I want to know if anyone has a different suggestion. No humbuckers. Plus, what should I wind for the different positions etc etc, any useful footnotes that could help me are good.
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There's only one common factor to the signal all the pickups produce, and thats the string. If it was just on one pickups then it's a 90% chance the low E magnet is dead. Anyway, perhaps the action on that string is higher? Just to be on the safe side,change the string to a brand new one intonate it, check the bridge saddle, check the nut, check everything that's possibly related to the string. Nothing works? Send it to a guitar tech.
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Look at the magnet, could it have possibly sunk in a little? Most chances that it's just lost a bit of it's strength, you gotta rechargh it. See stewmac for more info. EDIT:: Oh, I didn't see you wrote it's on all of the pickups settings. Well, have you tried changing the string?
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Google Jon Tirone, look at his website, great for what you need. Plus, go to stewmac and look for the humbucker guide.
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Is it 43AWG? Cuz with 42 AWG it would add up to 13,000 winds making it bigger than a P-90.
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1) Take the motor out, so you just have a spinny thing and a foot speed controller 2) Mount it on a piece of scrap ply, or something 3) possibly make a 'flywheel' type thing out of, say, scrap corian, mount it on the shaft (this to 'smooth out' the spin up and spin down 4) mount bobbing, start winding. That's how I've seen it doen, anyway, and what I'm planning to do with the cheap surplus sewing machine motor I got. ← It could be great to have a foot pedal and all, but no chance my parents will let me take apart the sewing machine. Not yet atleast.
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Checking Dc Resistance While Winding.
NinjaTaiken replied to NinjaTaiken's topic in Electronics Chat
Okay... I have a 4" diameter one here somewhere heh. -
Stewmac says you have to peel off the coating with a knife and be careful not the cut the wire, and I doubt I can scratch a wire thinner than my hair without breaking it. Any tips on how its done?
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Well that makes sense. Thanks. Guess this isnt as hard as I thought. What about covers? Could I get away with cutting off the top of a normal cover and painting the forbon white or something neat?
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No clue on the resistances, but I'd guess you'd want the same kind of figures as you get from a regular humbucker (what, 4-7k per coil? I'm sort of guessing here..). And yes, higher gauge = thinner wire. But 41 still isn't 'thick' by any traditional meaning of that word ;-) ← Thicker, that is. (: The resistance is 11.78k bridge position and 9.86k for neck position. So how much resistance would I get for 2000 winds per coil with 44 gauge? Where exactly does the magnet go again? Is it the big orange thing in the schematic?
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Yeah, I figured because it's a helluva thin coil I need more winds. The resistance should still be pretty low shouldn't it? How much res do I need typically? Plus, how thin of a wire? Could 44AWG do? Uh, 44 is thinner than 42 right? It's backwards isnt it? 41 is thick?
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So I wind the wire around the blade? wouldn't it make the coil shape a bit wierd? Or maybe it would just contribute size-wise? Winding square like that oughta make the wire a bit more susceptible to breakge right?
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Shouldn't there be a core? Like in normal humbucker bobbins? or maybe I could just make a bobbin with walls, stick in the blades and fill it with wax or epoxy or whatever to use as a core?
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So it's like a normal humbucker, bar magnet and all, but instead of polepieces you got a barpiece with a blade looking thingie on top? So technically, I could make single coil sized pickups with normal polepieces, only they'd be too big... Meh, screw it.
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Yeah, but I'm don't want minibuckers, I want single coil size humbuckers, Seymour Duncan style. Can't find any schematics anywhere ):. ← Stacked would be single coil. Standard dimension coils, just one on top of the other. You don't get the 'two blade' look, but it is humbucking. And nope, no schematics. Pickup schematics are rare beasts anyway; only the most common ones are out there (strat, tele, humbucker, P-90, P-bass, Jazz Bass) and easy to find. ← Yes, I know, but I'm still looking for information about railbuckers. Anyway, about the stacked ones, it would be taller unless its smaller bobbins, right?
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Yeah, but I'm don't want minibuckers, I want single coil size humbuckers, Seymour Duncan style. Can't find any schematics anywhere ):. ← So, instead of polepieces you got rails inside the bobbin? And very thin bobbins?
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Yeah, but I'm don't want minibuckers, I want single coil size humbuckers, Seymour Duncan style. Can't find any schematics anywhere ):.
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Stewmac has nor instructions nor materials for single sized humbuckers.
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Two very thin coils with rails on them and no or one big spacer on the bottom? Anyone got some instructions or a diagram of a single coil sized humbucker? Plus, where do I get the materials? the rails and whatever that is?
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Holy crap, thats faster then a proffesional winding machine.
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Really? Damn, thats awesome... No break or anything? It's gonna be a problem though because I want to make a counter... And mattia, you can solder it together but it's really not very recommended. ← There's no problem at all with resoldering it. Read my pickup tutorial if you want to see how I do it. http://home.zonnet.nl/wilmaremy/makingpups.html ← Still, it can get unpleasent if something screws up and you find your self dewinding a bajiliion turns. How much time did it take you to make the first one? BTW, just a tip, instead of soldering a chunk on the wire, tin a really little amount of solder on one end of the wire, then solder them together with no extra solder.
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Really? Damn, thats awesome... No break or anything? It's gonna be a problem though because I want to make a counter... And mattia, you can solder it together but it's really not very recommended.
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The problem is I'm not very patient about these things... Plus if I break the wire after an hour of winding I'll probably be smashing the table against the wall