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Mystic

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  1. How about these... http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Guitar,...es.html#details
  2. Here's how I do it. http://mysticpickups.com/MysticPickups/Assembly.html It's not as easy as it looks.
  3. I added some assembly pictures to my web site. Here's the link http://mysticpickups.com/MysticPickups/Assembly.html Comments? sugestions?
  4. The other thing to remember is that no 2 PAF pickups sound the same. Some sound great and some sound not so good. I've heard sound clips in A/B test and the boutique ones sound just as good maybe even better. (I'm kind of biased though since I make them). The only way I'd spend the money on the real deal is if I was restoring an old guitar that was worth six figures.
  5. the other thing to keep in mind is thet pickups which are scatterwound do sound better and a machine has a hard time duplicating that. A lot better? maybe yes maybe no, it all depends on the guitar and most of all your ears. I agree that spending a lot of money on pickups is silly, but not all hand-wound pickups are expensive. I think once you go over $140 per pickup you have entered " Hype land"
  6. There are over 30 partys in a humbucker pickup. There is a picture on my web site ( http://mysticpickups.com/MysticPickups/pictures.html ) Everything contributes to the "tone" a pickup gets. There are a lot of different types of wire and the wind pattern makes a huge difference (how many wraps per turn, scaterwound, etc). Even cheap ones sound good in the right guitar, but "boutique" pickups have had more R&D go into what they sound like. It takes me about 3 hours from start to finish to make a pickup. Even a few hundred turns + or - makes a difference that can be heard. Whether it's potted or not and "how it's potted makes a difference too. Some cars cost over a million dollars and some cost verry little, It's the same thing with pickups, Made by hand one at a time or made on a machine twenty at a time and assembled in China.
  7. here are instructions for humbuckers. There are instructions for other types on this site as well http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_p...61.html#details
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