The Art of Winding Pickups | A Relaxing Guide
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- The world is scary right now. Stay calm with this contemplative pickup winding video while learning about the merits and processes behind making your own humbuckers.
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The world is scary right now. Stay calm with this contemplative pickup winding video while learning about the merits and processes behind making your own humbuckers.
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This video was very calming and also interesting. Most excellent.
Colin, I’ve been winding for about 5 years myself. I had that winder for a bit. You should check out Thomas Pickup Winders in Brooklyn NYC on eBay. Hand made by this older gentleman named Oliver, I have 3 of his winders and the latest one he made custom for me including a foot pedal. They’re also about half the cost and last forever.
Wish Nebula could ship right now, I like those covers and aluminum mesh pieces. They’d go really well in some of the custom builds I have sitting unfinished in the house.
Cheers,
Nick
Been a fan of you for years, and this is by far my favorite video of yours. Love it brother and thank you for everything you had to teach me.
ONLY for those afraid of their own shadows!
How do you count the amount of turns you put on ?
Wind me right round, baby right round, like a pick up baby, wound wound wound wound
That was really great stuff! Nice work, Colin!
Does it interest me? Yes.
Will it make me rip my hair out trying to figure out where to put more gear. Definitely.
Will this stop me? Probably not!
The gearhead's equivalent of knitting. Imagine doing this at 80 while sitting in a rocking chair and endangering the tail of your cat.
Honestly I love that 2:10 is the most replayed in this video, purely for the disperate moment in the ocean of calm.
I would genuinely enjoy a full length tutorial on the entire process from assembly to soldering in
1:19 - OH SH*T! I almost fell out of my chair. You do the thing with the ring too. Man. I thought I was alone in the universe. And a fellow scotsman too. I salute you!
I didn’t even notice the ring, I thought he had super human strength
I'm terrified of that super thin wire slicing through your hand
The copper is far too soft and thin for that to happen, the required force to cut flesh would snap the wire long before it could breach the skin.
@@ScienceofLoud fair play, I still have to look away though 😂
Also I'd love a TATA episode on if I plug a bass into a guitar amp with it blow up
Short answer: No it won't. It's not bass frequencies that damage guitar speakers, it's the power of a bass amplifier going into a guitar speaker that does.
Bass guitar into guitar amp is ok (but won't sound all that great), bass amp into guitar speaker is not.
I did a video about this with Orange Amplification a few years ago where we put a 200W bass head into an 8 inch guitar speaker rater for 20W. The speaker cone took it fine, it's the voice coil that melts and kills the speaker.
You can see the video here: th-cam.com/video/vuQAJCDQd5E/w-d-xo.html
@@ScienceofLoud But if the Cab is sufficiently high rated for the power of the amp, it should technically be ok, right?
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It's the secret weapon in easy coil winding.
Where the fuck is this talc causes cancer bullshit coming from?
Is this typical American hysteria based on mistaken causality like how vaccines apparently cause autism?
@@ScienceofLoud ok Colin just went from 10 to 100 in half a second. Lmao fuck em up Colin
Talcum powder is talc. It's talc in powdered form. That's literally the only ingredient.
I have zero tolerance for idiots spreading misinformation on the internet.
There is no evidence of any substantive nature to support these claims. As a fucking scientist I object to this nonsense on principle.
We're currently involved in a global pandemic where people are burning down 5G towers because they think the radiation is giving them Coronavirus.
This sort of unfounded speculation in the absence of scientific fact is dangerous and damaging.
see how the coil is made is very satisfactory 🦖🌸
I'm so happy you enjoyed watching it :)
Never miss a video, enjoy all the content.
Hello from Washington state!
Thanks for your dedication. You rock!
Companies in the past had a thing about stationing women on the string winders to 'hand wind' the Pu's The Fender Custom Shop still has an elderly lady doing the hand wounds. Rickenbacker makes PU's primarily as replacement parts and the lady that comes in to make them a few hours a week is in her late 80's. She made the first high gain PU for Townsend in 1966. It is really by today's standards a medium gain PU. She made one for me ... technically since it is listed as a replacement part it cost me $75.00 US lol. The in house triple chrome plating costs more. lol I put it in a Fender Duo Sonic at the neck and I have a Duncan hand wound ' 55 Tele PU at the bridge. I get both of the two sounds Townsend used on early Who records and gigs out of one guitar. Yes it does sound great! My Plexi helps too. LOL
This is super zen man. Good stuff.
I've been winding my own for almost 40 years, using a MUCH cruder process than you show. But then, winding only a couple of pickups in any given year, I've never felt the urgent need to either invest in or build a winding machine or jig. Perhaps it would have paid off had I obtained one 40 years ago, but amortized over the number of pickups I expect to make over my remaining years, I see no point in changing my methods now.
So how do *I* wind them? I use an old-school hand-drill; the kind you crank. The chuck doesn't turn with the smoothness or precision that your winder does, but it works well enough. I also like it because unlike a motorized winder that has a certain momentum, if I feel a snag coming on, the stopping is instantaneous. The bobbin is held in place via a slender boIt that feeds through the centre hole in the bobbin to the chuck, such that the bobbin spins around like a propellor. I get 4.25 turns of the chuck/bobbin for each turn of the handle. When I'm on a roll, I can crank about 80 times a minute (340 turns of the coil). Assuming I don't need to stop very often, that works out to around a half-hour for a typical Strat coil. If I was running a business, that would be no way to make a living. But since these are pickups for ME, not for a customer, a half or even 3/4 of an hour is fine. It would take me at least that to get in the car, drive to the nearest music store, get a clerk to provide me a pickup (they're generally behind the counter), and drive back home.
I clamp the hand drill in a vise and secure it to the bench-top, making sure I have clearance for unobstructed access to the drill crank-handle. The spool of wire goes on the floor immediately below, such that it unspools vertically. I like to put a sheet of black foam or felt underneath, such that when I look down at the spinning bobbin, the shiny copper wire is easy to see against the dark background, helping me to distribute the wire evenly across the coil.
Sometimes the results are fabulous, and sometimes not so much. Because I was able to obtain large 5lb rolls of #42 wire from a scrap dealer for $2/lb, I don't mind tossing a coil if it either ends up sounding poor, snapping once too many times, or being loose and microphonic.
In some instances, one is *obliged* to wind your own, simply because no commercial product fits the bill. I have a pre-war Kalamazoo archtop that desperately cried out for a pickup near the fingerboard. Sadly, there is very little clearance between the body and strings to accommodate even the thinnest commercially-available unit. And I wasn't about to cut a hole in the guitar to accommodate what WAS available. Over the course of several years, I found some suitable material to make the flatwork with, and some suitable tiny "button" neodymium mags, and wound a pickup that is about 1/8" thick, and still leaves room for picking the strings. This week, I should probably get back to rewinding an original "gold foil" I have. I've wound unusual things in past. Last year I rewound a 1948 DeArmond pickup.
I wound many pickups on a hand cranked drill before I finally upgraded my process. I got some great results out of that old jig, but it was stressful in many ways.
With this new machine I can great very professional coils easily and quickly, and I'm more relaxed in the process.
I'm glad that your process is so similar to my early DIY setup.
@@ScienceofLoud Hi Colin. Thanks for the reply. One of the reasons, among many, that I wind the way I do, is because I bought all my wire (many gauges, from #36-#44) from a scrap dealer. The wire is good, but spools are of varying sizes, shapes, and weights, such that a setup which mechanically unwinds from the spool consistently, across spool types, is difficult, if not impossible to devise. I've watched enough episodes of "How It's Made" to know that one can design machinery to accomplish the most exotic of tasks. But for a dozen pickups per decade, for a "non-paying customer", it hardly seems worth it. Besides, I'm more interested in the experiments and serendipitous outcomes than in consistently replicating a target tone, as one might with customers. It's like cooking. Seasoning to taste and unplanned-but-pleasing outcomes is something you can do when you're only cooking for your own table and not customers.
Potting: Soaking the wound pickup in liquified wax is obviously best, but not everyone has that sort of setup. Realistically, it's really more the outer 1/3 of the coil that is most susceptible to loose winds and microphonics, with inner winds generally being tighter. I lie the wound coil on its side, hold a candle 6 inches or so above the coil, and melt the candle with a heat gun such that it drips onto the coil. The thermal "shock" when it hits the coil impedes it soaking in, so at a lower heat I will blow hot air on the wax until I see it soak in. Naturally, you have to flip the coil over to do the other side. Once semi-potted and cleaned up, I like to wrap a few winds of teflon plumber's tape around the coil. It fits perfectly in most instances (Jazzmaster and P90 PUs will be an obvious exception), and you can pull on it to tighten up the tape and apply pressure inwards on the coil. Plus, it's adhesive-free, so it can be removed at a later date without damaging the coil, and provides a kid of protective layer between the coil and adhesive of the finishing tape.
Great video! love the sound
Thank you for continuing the silly endings. They are a cherry on top of the great content you make!
Cheers, mate. Nice, relaxing video. Just what I needed... and some tasty playing, too. Stay safe and well.
Nice choice of riffage around 6 minute mark. Saxon - Denim and Leather. Great sounding pickups by the way
6:19 *DENIM, AND LEATHER, BROUGHT US ALL TOGETHER!*
Never been so relaxed by winding up. Thank you
I’d love to try this some day! I modded my first pedal yesterday!
Pickups sound great at the end :)
Lockdown has me too skint for that sort of investment. And besides, it's my lack of talent that deserves most of the credit for how bad I sound, gear is a distant second.
Seeing the site now and there's telecaster parts on here. Time to see what these guys are all about.
Yup, there are a few tele parts on there.
They are just newly opened and will be adding more items as time goes on.
there are far better shops, also the best is order at the source you will save up to 10 times.
What the pickup was thinking: "spin me spin me all around, let me never touch the ground" obviously singing to whatever tune I come up with :P
Nice !!!
Great video Colin! I wish I could do such modifications on my own guitars myself
funny and relaxing video, would recommend to a friend, 5 stars.
Get recommending! Thanks for your support.
You've absolutely got me interested in making my own pickups. Has a very pilgrimage-like vibe about it and brings me back to that old bit of Star Wars lore: Jedi make their own lightsabers as a rite of passage.
Denim and Leather is rather an appropriate base for distorted tones to demonstrate on. By the way, the whole video gives out a relaxing vibe which is very pleasant. Man, it is also quite motivating to show that piece of craft and creativity at least by your own hands when everyone else just makes exclusively promotion content and nothing more. We need more stuff like this. Cheers!
good video, lots/10
Hey - these actually sound pretty damn good!
You shouting "Fucker!" was my favorite part of this video. I enjoyed the articles positing that Scotland is the birthplace of this most useful of words.
these humbuckers sound like the synister gate specials, all warm no treble
Great looking pickups and great sounding too! But it didn't look all too relaxing when you had to cut the windings back off though. Love those last 2 seconds every time!!
I just purchased my fitst pickup winder kit...will be here next week...cannot wait to get winding! Do you wind single coil pickups and if so do you have videos?
This has really inspired me to wind my own pickups! Gonna check these guys at Nebula out, hope they can ship their products to brazil. Beautiful video man
Thanks buddy! Hopefully they'll be able to ship to you.
Him: a relaxing guide to pickup winding to relax you and teach you how to wind a pickup
Also him: 2:10
2 minutes 10 seconds: “Fu**er”. Ha ha genius!!
They sound fucking sweet tbf
You’re getting really stuck in and after all of that hard work you drink alcohol. My god. Thanks though
First pickups I ever wound was a set of P-90s. I had to re-wind those little f*ckers four times before I finished them :-)
Great tutorial, gives me the inspiration to try for myself. Those Medusa pickups have such great clarity on high gain, really impressive
If a pickup is basically a bobbin with magnetic pole pieces wrapped with fine copper wire and dipped in wax then what distinguishes all the different pickups? Is it just the number of times its wound? There are so many pickups out there. Are they all made of the same materials? For example, is the difference between a Fender Fat 50's and a Fender Tex Mex just the based on the number of winds or is there something else that separates them in terms of materials used?
what a coincidence, I've just today received the 1000:1 current transformers in the mail that i need to make a set of low-Z pickups. hopefully the 22 gauge magnet wire doesn't snap before it's completed it's 19 turns, ha!
Would you give details on the design of the neck pickup?
I've potted pickups with the cover on, but whatever works for you.
Cool
Sort of incredible that we have electric guitars and basses at all: voodoo!
6:50 that Paradise city though 😍 and 7:49 that awesome nothing else matters.
Ahhh man, those sounds delightfully tasty
I want to try winding pickups for a while now.
Do you have any recommendations for a pickup winder?
I don't have the room/tools to build something myself and live in the Netherlands.
I'm curious to hear what you recommend.
Great video man :)
Where did you get that winder from?
Do you have a link?
Thanks
Your accent makes me feel like I'm listening to a Peaky Blinders episode about guitars
This man played the entire solo from "Nothing Else Matters" and thought we wouldn't notice.
It sounded real good, though 🤔
hey man great video!, where do you find the machine to coil them?
Question from a guy who’s effects knowledge only goes about as far as distortion, flange, and sustain/compression! In your playing at 5:35, would you call the “echo” effect you have reverb? Or are you using the chorus pedal you showed? Thanks!
I'm using chorus and analog delay pedals as seen on the board, as well as an extremely light touch of plate reverb added in post.
What you are hearing is a bucket brigade delay, there is a recent video on my channel detailing it.
CSGuitars thank you!!!
Would love to give this a go. I'm currently working on a mod project and I need a new bridge pickup. What winder would you recommend Colin
Is there a “recipe” book for winding pick ups? I am just starting to learn. Any help is appreciated
Mellow bruvv
Does the base plate provide bass to the sound ?
I was always wondering. How does the Tele or Strat pickups differ from the P90s for example. Like how exactly are they build different?
Hey thanks for the video. I have a winding setup for coils.
With the filament being so fine, how imperitive is it for the windings to stack perfectly?
Any measure of variance that’s acceptable/unnacceptable? Thanks!
"I can't put my finger on exactly what I find so relaxing about winding coils..." *snap* "...Fucker!"
That Nebula s the most expense store for parts a good place to avoid. Couldn't you just continue to wind that pickups to sand down a bit wire and solder it and good to go.
That’s British sounding
I have a set a pickups that do not have any wiring. How do you solder the wiring to the pickup?
You'll have to open up the pickup and find the ends of the copper coil, but if the wiring has been removed by force chances are the coil will also be damaged and unsalvageable. You'll probably be looking at getting a rewind.
@@ScienceofLoud gotcha. thanks! advice and video super helpful as always!
Going to make some of those with an actual hand powered winder cause money 🤣
the whole video: ahh look how relaxing winding coils is
the intro : FUCK YAAA GUITARR
I defiantly want to know more about winding, wide, Flat, thick , thin, double single,
With how many times I hear you play the Nothing Else Matters solo, I can't help but think that The Black Album is one of your guilty pleasure albums
It's just the only solo I know. I learned it to play a wedding. It was work.
Thanks cool
I'd like to build a neck pick up for a tele I have. The home made retrofitted neck has a 48 mm nut width, but a standard bridge. Because of this altered geometry there is a slight misalignment of strings over pole pieces, suggesting a longer pup might help with tone, balance, aesthetics and general wellbeing. Can anyone point me towards a supplier of kit, parts, etc that would enable me to achieve this goal? Or is there another way man?
Thanks
Cool project. Probably decently expensive as one-off with the winding system etc. Not really my sound, maybe about the general sounds and not the pickups, but sounded a bit too powerful for my taste. But this would be fun to do, would've been interested in the cost of this kind of project though.
I wound these to be hot pickups, there is no obligation for anyone else to do so. The blue Poseidon humbucker was wound for a more PAF style output.
Plenty of inexpensive DIY options for creating a winder. I wound a multitude of pickups on a handcranked jig (made of scrap wood and hand drill) and got great results before I decided to spend the money on a proper motorised winder to streamline the process. Now I can get equivalent sounds much easier with a more professional set up.
@@ScienceofLoud haha absolutely it's very personal decision how you actually decide the windings. The quality of the pickups sounded good despite my personal preference.
Ah hand winding those sounds like a big commitment and I assume it requires extra focus to be doing it for a good while, that's why my first thought was the motorised winder. Your winding process looked very clean and focusing on the key part with that tool. The pickup kits themselves were very affordable definitely.
Anyhow, very into your more "nerdy" tech videos like electrical engineering takes or these DIY things. Maybe even an amp one day? 👀 Just made my first pedal and I can see the attraction to making these things yourself.
My Patreon supporters have chosen to fund a valve amplifier build which I'll be starting very soon.
The associated video series will feature much tech talk as well as interviews with some professional amplifier builders.
Plus you can think of the potential of the wonderous notes that will be played through the pickup one day.
omg, this video was sooo helpful, but in a different way:
I'm planning to restore some humbuckers of mine, were the threads for the adjustment screws have worn out
and some of the mounting brackets even broken off entirely.
Furthermore, I'm planning on modifying all my PU's to be able to support coil tapping/splitting
I went to nebulas website and it turns out, they have EVERYTHING, not only to build pickups from scratch,
but every possible individual component can be purchased separately!
Thx mate, you unknowongly did me a solid
I'd love to make a humbucker "Hot Rail" pickup to fit a J-style bass pickup. I've replaced my P-style pickups with some DiMarizo DP127's and I love it so much so I'd love to make something similar for the J pickups!. I have a lathe so I could perhaps wind coils with that, although I have no clue how to keep track of the number of windings... maybe rev speed and timing?
Attach a small neodymium magnet to the spinning shaft and use a reed switch or hall effect sensor to sense the magnet each time it spins passed.
Hook up the output into a counter that increments by one each time the sensor triggers.
My first winder used a reedswitch wired into the = button on a pocket calculator. Set the calculator to do the addition 1+1 and each time the = is triggered it increments the number. The reedswitch has poor resolution at high speeds, it wouldn't have time to reopen before the magnet swung round again. A Hall Effect Sensor would work far better.
how do you wind bobbinless PUs like trisonics?
Hi there, I'm an amateur blacksmith/metal worker (& bedroom guitarist) from north Wales. I'm wondering if there is anything I could make that would be of interest to you. I'm thinking, pickup covers/surrounds, nut's, scratchplate's or any other decorative parts, (I dont tihnk you'd want a metal bobbin), I can heat treat metal parts to colour them blue/purple or black/gray, I can give things a highly polished finish or hammered 'forged' finished, anyways, I'd love to kick around a few Ideas with you, I'm not after money.
its funny, despite having some quite nice gtrs i always find myself going back 2 my 2009 ART100, still has everything stock, couldnt find anything i wanted to change honestly.
The first two minutes were super peaceful and chill, right up until "FUCKER!" 😂
Still, Colin - what *have* you been smoking?!
the zeus pickup sounds fucking incredible.
the ability to get pro quality components by learning to diy is so inspiring to me. thank you for giving me a great place to start with making my own pickups (and subsequently my own guitars)
I don't know why Alnico magnets sound better, I've often changed out ceramic magnets for Alnico and they sound better, perhaps ceramic are often higher output whereas I do like low output pickups
@CSGuitars Where can I find the Coil winder you are using? Whatever I google I cant find anything that looks like this beside some 30€ China stuff.
I had my 1959 Gretsch guitar tron pickup rewound. Its impedance is now just 2.9., Did they us too much wire or to little wire? Not sure where it should be?
They started with a 3d printed winder, but they don't sell a winder... ?
So it's 6 coils per pickup, 12 per hum bucker? How many winds are we talking?
That wire can't be cheap!
"I'm checking them out because I wish to scrutinize their quality for myself"
Really?
Loved this! Beautiful playing as well, cheers from London- ❤
Those pick ups sound good Col! \m/
I have a CNC coil winder, but I never thought about winding my own guitar pickups....hmmm
Where I can buy such coil winder?
That is the worst shop and probably the most expensive, plus they sell something what was shared for free like that machine for winding. Shame is to support such people.
I have a question since I’m uninformed and quite curious would a bridge pickup sound like a bridge pickup if it were in the neck,basically is it the position that makes it sound like that or is it the way it’s wound?
Dat Corona Beer hahahahaha
I'm mexican
UK: We make our own guitar pickups
USA: we make our own boolits.
I know there's a matter of the number of windings, but does it matter if the wire is would closer together on each turn? Like, can you get more wire on the pickup and would that matter?
Carl Thompson will be winding a custom humbucker for my bass build, which is badass.
That was the most relaxing"FUCKER" I've ever heard