Bart Kerswell: According to spellcheck you and I both spell our last names wrong. Oh, darn, your time limit on editing has run out for your comment I'm replying to. Ah well, these things happen; ...you misspelled a word. You left one "r" out of "furry" in your reference to Mad Max's furry guitar. Was that in a sequel? I missed it. I never knew Mad Max had a guitar, furry or otherwise. -David, a.k.a. the ConnMan.
It's amazing how good these can sound! I needed a pickup for a 3 string cigar box guitar, so I used the same basic design and it sounds fantastic! I definitely recommend people who are into making their own instruments, give this a try. They work!👍😎🎸🎶
would love to see you build a double coil/humbucker pickup. You're awesome and you probably saved me from spending $100+ on branded pickups haha. I'm currently on a budget 😬😬
Honestly this is great content, and I don't understand why you don't have more subscribers. This video well explains how to do a simple project like this without giving too much information (it's short and to the point which I like).
I don't play guitar, but for some reason I want to build one. How would I ever know if I did a good job? It doesn't matter, it would make me happy just to build it. Great video, I now understand how the pickups work and I feel inspired.
Very cool! Just found your channel from your upcoming collab on YT art project. I had no idea that's how the pickups worked. If you do again, using nails instead of screws would probably help with the snagging while winding as you wouldn't have threads to catch on. Does the polarity of the magnets direction matter? Like all south or north facing same direction? Ok, well now to binge all your videos, as the painting that led me here is inspiring, but the wood working and general tinkering that seems to be your style is definitely more in my wheelhouse!
Drill the holes for the first piece of wood just put that on top of the second piece and then drill through the first holes. It'll line up easily that way
awesome piece of advice for future builds, use heat shrink to insulate rather than hot glue, youd be surprised how large a diameter heat shrink comes in ive had heat shrink up to a meter in diameter, simply cap the ends with hot glue and youll geta very neat end product
It's funny to read the comments attempting to steer this incredibly creative project towards orthodoxy, as if you/we are not aware. In fact, the more one knows about the conventions of a guitar pickup the more fun this is. Fantastic.
Re-purposing discarded stuff is a good thing. Would large iron nails make better magnets than the (slightly) hard machine screws? As a kid, when we made electro-magnets and small motors, nails were preferred because of their permeability. Nice Jules Verne looking guitar. Thanks for posting.
This is damn creative!!! I have the most respect for you!! Awesome to see how you build your own guitar from used materials!! Keep up this awesome work.
Thanks for the video. I'm looking to custom build an electric violin using the unique pickup method that Fender used in his electric violins and, being as there isn't anything using that method that's commercially available, I'm going to need to build them myself. This video seems very helpful in the basics of what I need to do. I'll probably just salvage most of the components from a crappy guitar pickup that I have lying around but this video is still very informative
Great building! I tried this it seems like the heavier gauge size works better and it should be easier to work with. I'm trying to build one for a three string and pulling apart an old pickup that was potted is impossible.
Maybe, but you'd need some sort of metal bit vibrating for the magnets to pick up on. I think you'd probably be better off using a piezo pickup, though feedback may become an issue with how resonant wind instruments are
I made it and it rlly did work.. mine was 300ohms wich is a weak one but still works... It was not fuzy at all but I had an issue where the cupper wire where the insulation was scratched on the nails I used so there was some noise from the inviroment coming from these nails where the scratched copper was having contact with... so u all guys better isolate the nails, rods or whatever you use to avoid such simple but imprtant issue!
Super cool project and I really dig the guitar. I've been building guitars out of found material for 15 years or so. As far as the pickup goes I wouldn't exactly say it sounds great. But I'm going to guarantee that's because of the gauge wire that you used. I would harvest the thin wire another one of those Transformers. For your Winder if you want to use an electric drill you're going to need to put it of course on the slowest speed you're going to need something to tape or hold the trigger down and you're going to need something to slow down the speed even more. Two different size pulleys and some sort of little belt, two wooden circles with groove cut around the circumference oh, you get it. Mount Your pulleys kind of close to each other diagonally offset on some nails or shank bolts with the smooth Part near the head, you can use some washers for spacers or bearings set up a little stand on the back side of the board that you have mounted these pulleys on, stand the board up vertically. You're going to want to space things so that the battery of the drill or the handle touches the table as does the edge of the mounting board. The bolt that is going to attach to the drill needs to go all the way through the wood so you can Chuck it in the drill. I can't do much better explaining in a TH-cam post but I am sure you can figure it out from there. I would get it going pretty slow. Like 100 RPM or less. Wire tension with wire that thin is the most critical thing. I just use my fingertip, in a glove, after much "testing" i.e. screwing up I got the feel for it. Also a quick shut off that kills the power to the drill or something would be handy, if the wire breaks and doesn't tangle which in my experience usually doesn't happen at those slow speeds if you can shut the drill off pretty quickly, you can literally burn off the enamel on both busted ends. Tie together. Dot of nail polish, clear enamel paint etc. Do 10 or so turns by hand, and have at it
Always good to see diy. Need to armchair some advice; wire works better on smoothness, wrap a layer of tape first as screw threads are terrible.. As to noise hot glue does nothing, the wire to wire capacitance is working to absorb that in this pickup, the other way to go is to use foil wrapped once without touching itself and connecting one end to the pickup wire as your final outside layer.
Actually, getting back to the glue. When I first watched this I was thinking ac/radio noise, but yes, glue/varnish/wax will stop the wires from physically moving causing vibration noises. Of the options, wax is a good one, it soaks in but doesn't stop you from fixing the pickup in the future.
Cool. Thank you for this . My logic oriented brain can't get enough for the info delivery method . Excellent infographics, editing, and pace. It was also actually very very informative to see you build your first draft . I had no idea plugs had copper wire, I suppose I have a new task today. I'm going to try and build this. Do you think that silicone glue sealant would work as a good insulator? If the coiled wires are not perfectly aligned, does it change the sound?
Silicone might work? I don’t see why it wouldn’t but I dunno. All great questions, and having similar questions is what drove me to make this, so I guess just experiment! Youll find a lot of the hard-set rules ppl have about these things are really much more flexible than expected. Good luck and be safe!
how thick is your wooden ruler? I made 2 of these and it works but holy hell, the wooden ruler breaks everytime. Super frustrating but thank you for making this video! Would love to see u make a humbucker
i dunno about using several wires, i believe one, long, continuous wire is best practice. I did a few hundred wraps on this one, but for the best results you should use a thinner gauge wire and do upwards of 1000 wraps.
Love the video. I do notice your string spacing (e to E) on the pickup is too wide but.....it’s a win. I am doing something rather similar and will be posting videos about it. Your video here has given me some ideas. Ideas of which I have too many of, and as such tend to leave a lot of little things lying around half finished for too long.
I followed this but my pickup doesn’t pickup any sound from my guitar. When I tap the screw heads I get slight sounds from it but that’s it, what am I doing wrong here? What are some common mistakes?
i wouldnt really know, ive only done it one time. my guess is that either the winding got messed up or it might not be grounded properly. Good luck with it!
I cant remember exactly, but they were late 70s/early 80s, had a silver steel band with a red cover, red cups with no padding, and an "N" logo in red/blue/silver on each cup. my assumption is most stereo type headphones from that era would work.
I use a neck through design on cigar boxes, meaning I have to notch down into the neck to make room the pickup. Obviously weakening it. What's the absolute minimum depth I can get away with using this method?
You need about 8000 turns of wire to get a good sound and usable output. For that you need 42 gauge wire or thinner. A sewing machine works ok as a winder, a microswitch and a digital counter helps. The more turns of wire the more output you have, but the less top end. A massively underwound pickup will sound obnoxiously bright.
@@Brandonh-vc6hd this is a contentious one. Not for the same number of turns and the rest of the pickup design being the same, provided you have the pickup in a regular guitar control circuit and plugged into something that behaves at least on the input side like a guitar amp. If you have no load or external capacitance across the pickup (no vol pot, near infinite amplifier DC resistance, no long coax cable), for example just using oscilloscope probes, there is a measurable difference but as soon as you simulate the rest of the circuit the difference is swamped by much larger capacitances and resistances. If the difference in wire gauge is huge then the difference in coil area will change the inductance. But you can totally make 42, 43 and 44 awg coils with the same turn count that sound and measure identical under real world conditions. This is used by pickup manufacturers to obscure what they're doing for example the Dimarzio Evolution has one coil of about 7000 turns and one of about 7200 IIRC but one is 43AWG and the other is 44AWG so they have very different DC resistances. They are slightly mismatched, but actually less so than a conventional PAF with slugs and screws as the amount of core material alters the inductance, and my understanding is the 7200 coil replicates a slug coil and the 7000 coil replicates a fillister screw coil, whereas the actual construction is set screws (whatever the US size nearest M5 is) which are somewhere in between the two in behaviour. DC resistance is only useful for comparison with the same wire gauge and the same construction, wherein it's a proxy for inductance. Yes lots of people say they don't like pickups with 44AWG because it sounds so dark. What they really mean is they don't like pickups with so many turns on them that have to be made out of 44awg because that many turns of 43 and 42 awg won't fit. I'm not convinced by wire insulation thickness either as the difference in capacitance might be 10 to 20pF but the capacitance of an instrument cable can vary between 300pF for a short good quality one and over 1000pF for a long awful one. Shielded hookup cable like you'd use on a humbucker can be particularly high capacitance, like 320pF/metre whereas twisted pair can have good noise rejection and a capacitance of well below 50pF/metre and is getting to the point where me holding the probes alters the results so I don't have good numbers. I could set up stands in a test rig but mostly it becomes about measuring the test rig.
yup, that would make it a lot better for sure, but it was late and i didnt want to go buy thinner ire (or wait for it to come in the mail) so I went with what I had.
This is the guitar you pass around to your freebird hollering savages over a case of beer in the garage to keep them away from your Les Paul or Strat. A random stray dart toss away from your baby and into this thing just gives it more character. This thing will attract stories, and become legend of the watercooler.
A thinner wire means more turns you can wrap around and this gives you more output. If I understood that correctly. But does ist cange the tone as well?
To have ideal coverage by the magnetic field, the screws must be directly underneath each string. To be honest in this case, I think a rail core would have been a bit more suited. It would also allow you to put more magnets so a stronger field could make the output louder
Theres a lot of potential. Emphasis should be made on these are homemade. You can measure the strings location on your guitar to make the perfect fit you never see with factory pickups
What an interesting video! So cool! I want to try to make a pickup and guitar from scratch too! Do you have two wires going from each end of the pickup that then connect to the plug going to the amp? I'm going to thumbs up and subscribe to support you as this was very helpful!
Absolute spammy site. You want good woodworking instructions complete with video tutorials go the traditional route with Fine Woodworking and Woodsmith. Avoid Ted's (and the like) at all costs.
Is there a way to make a very slim guitar pickup at home? I'd like to make one that's fairly flat for my archtop. There isn't much space between the top and the strings.
Yep. I made this one too tall actually, but you can set your post height to whatever you want, so long as you can wind enough wire around them. If you can fit enough winds, you can make it wider or possibly longer to compensate. All of these will affect the tone/signal in their own way but experimenting is part of the fun!
please continue to make stuff. you are good at it.
ok FINE
@@KeithDecent ❤️
Bwahaha great minds...
Does it do a rock, distortion sound?
@@iridios6127 yeah, you're right. he's better.
this is basically a post apocalypse build of a guitar. good work man!
Thanks!
That is one Mad Max Fury Road looking guitar. Sound good to 👍👍
thanks! yeah its very post apocalyptic haha
Bart Kerswell: According to spellcheck you and I both spell our last names wrong. Oh, darn, your time limit on editing has run out for your comment I'm replying to. Ah well, these things happen; ...you misspelled a word. You left one "r" out of "furry" in your reference to Mad Max's furry guitar. Was that in a sequel? I missed it. I never knew Mad Max had a guitar, furry or otherwise. -David, a.k.a. the ConnMan.
It's amazing how good these can sound! I needed a pickup for a 3 string cigar box guitar, so I used the same basic design and it sounds fantastic! I definitely recommend people who are into making their own instruments, give this a try. They work!👍😎🎸🎶
Taking the wire out of old wall warts is clever! I've been playing with some ideas for DIY pickups and I hadn't considered doing that.
Automotive relays have more easily accessible magnet wire spools inside them. For what it's worth. Great video, keep them coming!!
would love to see you build a double coil/humbucker pickup. You're awesome and you probably saved me from spending $100+ on branded pickups haha. I'm currently on a budget 😬😬
That’s cool and all but you left out how you did the electronics for it. I’m wanting to learn so was keen to see how you wired it to the jack etc.
Honestly this is great content, and I don't understand why you don't have more subscribers. This video well explains how to do a simple project like this without giving too much information (it's short and to the point which I like).
what would happen if you winded up each bolt/magnet separately?
it would still work. some pickups are wound like that
i don't know why, but seeing this dude cutting that old ruler made me an instant subscriber
Cool vid, brother!
thanks Jonny!
Used these for a guitar last year and am making them again now for a bass works great cheers bro
awesome, glad to hear it!
I actually followed that tutorial and made new pickups for my brand new guitar. Nothing like home made.
thats awesome! if you're on Instagram I'd love to have you send me a link! Im @keithdecent
@@KeithDecent I'd love to but I was joking haha. Great video though :)
What is the mm of the coil pls? I love to be following u pls
I don't play guitar, but for some reason I want to build one. How would I ever know if I did a good job? It doesn't matter, it would make me happy just to build it. Great video, I now understand how the pickups work and I feel inspired.
Leo Fender invented the solid body electric guitar and he wasn't even a musician. So you have the potential to do something great.
@@natanaeldamian2192i was about to say this
@@natanaeldamian2192also no, he didnt invent it. he just made the first commercially successful one
Very cool!
Just found your channel from your upcoming collab on YT art project.
I had no idea that's how the pickups worked.
If you do again, using nails instead of screws would probably help with the snagging while winding as you wouldn't have threads to catch on.
Does the polarity of the magnets direction matter? Like all south or north facing same direction?
Ok, well now to binge all your videos, as the painting that led me here is inspiring, but the wood working and general tinkering that seems to be your style is definitely more in my wheelhouse!
This is helpful, I'm planning to make an electric guitar just for fun.
'Potted' with hot glue? Nutter.
Liked and subscribed.
Drill the holes for the first piece of wood just put that on top of the second piece and then drill through the first holes. It'll line up easily that way
Great! would be amazing if you show how to do another one and how to connect the cables that come from the pickup
awesome piece of advice for future builds, use heat shrink to insulate rather than hot glue, youd be surprised how large a diameter heat shrink comes in ive had heat shrink up to a meter in diameter, simply cap the ends with hot glue and youll geta very neat end product
It's funny to read the comments attempting to steer this incredibly creative project towards orthodoxy, as if you/we are not aware. In fact, the more one knows about the conventions of a guitar pickup the more fun this is. Fantastic.
Re-purposing discarded stuff is a good thing. Would large iron nails make better magnets than the (slightly) hard machine screws? As a kid, when we made electro-magnets and small motors, nails were preferred because of their permeability. Nice Jules Verne looking guitar. Thanks for posting.
thx bro i'm doing a violin pickup and i needed to make sure i had it right in my mind how everything works ;)
This is damn creative!!! I have the most respect for you!! Awesome to see how you build your own guitar from used materials!! Keep up this awesome work.
Today I'm gonna make one but for the bass. It's the same but I just need 2 more screws and magnets for a 4 strings bass. Cool video man!
Popsicle sticks make great bobbin tops and bottoms.
Awesome work dude! You definitely don’t see anyone doing work like that these days.
So awesome!
thank you so much, i was searching for a video like this for a week or so!!
Wow looks horrendously amazing.
I built my own pickup like yours before I saw video abd damn I had to hand wind mine never thought if a bolt with drill
Thanks for the video. I'm looking to custom build an electric violin using the unique pickup method that Fender used in his electric violins and, being as there isn't anything using that method that's commercially available, I'm going to need to build them myself. This video seems very helpful in the basics of what I need to do. I'll probably just salvage most of the components from a crappy guitar pickup that I have lying around but this video is still very informative
Holy cow that's really cool makes me want to try this out !
Just discovered your channel, I love it! Now I have to find some Transformers.
This looks awesome! How did you wire the pickup to an output jack?
i left the beginning and the end of the coil wire outside of the coil to form the connection.
that guitar looks amazing
This was a really great video. Cool guitar too!
I can't understand how you got two terminals for your output jack can u please explain 🥺🥺🥺
you leave the beginning and the end of the wire that you coil, sticking out from the wrapped coil, those are your terminals
Great building! I tried this it seems like the heavier gauge size works better and it should be easier to work with. I'm trying to build one for a three string and pulling apart an old pickup that was potted is impossible.
This is awesome! I’m making a slide bass guitar out of scrap wood for fun and this should be perfect! Would this work for a bass guitar?
Absolutely.
@@mahbuburrahman926 it did work too
I'm trying to make an electric pan flute, and I was wondering if this pickup could be upscaled to fit the size of the pan flute. Could this work?
I dunno, but it's so easy to build, why not just give it a try?
Maybe, but you'd need some sort of metal bit vibrating for the magnets to pick up on. I think you'd probably be better off using a piezo pickup, though feedback may become an issue with how resonant wind instruments are
quick & simple teachings. excellent video.
3:24 how do i wire it to the pots and jack? :O
Is that a Tim Sway pickguard
Awesome build. Perfect pickup for that guitar. Don't stop talking! That's the good stuff.
Great video. Is there a video on how you wired it to the output jack? Sorry if I missed that part.
Thank
i included it in the main guitar build video, you can see it on my channel page.
Thanks
Decent pickup man!🤘
Thanks!
So good! Pretty Cool!😊 it has impetus
Is the coil wire have to be continues?? Can i just put a bunch of different wires?
How did you wire the wires for the jack output (input?) to the single coil tho??
You are a true McGyver disciple. Well done compadre.
I made it and it rlly did work.. mine was 300ohms wich is a weak one but still works... It was not fuzy at all but I had an issue where the cupper wire where the insulation was scratched on the nails I used so there was some noise from the inviroment coming from these nails where the scratched copper was having contact with... so u all guys better isolate the nails, rods or whatever you use to avoid such simple but imprtant issue!
Hi, i m building a 2 string bass guitar . Should i follow the same process? And of what gauge copper wire will be the best.
Super cool project and I really dig the guitar. I've been building guitars out of found material for 15 years or so. As far as the pickup goes I wouldn't exactly say it sounds great. But I'm going to guarantee that's because of the gauge wire that you used. I would harvest the thin wire another one of those Transformers. For your Winder if you want to use an electric drill you're going to need to put it of course on the slowest speed you're going to need something to tape or hold the trigger down and you're going to need something to slow down the speed even more. Two different size pulleys and some sort of little belt, two wooden circles with groove cut around the circumference oh, you get it. Mount Your pulleys kind of close to each other diagonally offset on some nails or shank bolts with the smooth Part near the head, you can use some washers for spacers or bearings set up a little stand on the back side of the board that you have mounted these pulleys on, stand the board up vertically. You're going to want to space things so that the battery of the drill or the handle touches the table as does the edge of the mounting board. The bolt that is going to attach to the drill needs to go all the way through the wood so you can Chuck it in the drill. I can't do much better explaining in a TH-cam post but I am sure you can figure it out from there. I would get it going pretty slow. Like 100 RPM or less. Wire tension with wire that thin is the most critical thing. I just use my fingertip, in a glove, after much "testing" i.e. screwing up I got the feel for it.
Also a quick shut off that kills the power to the drill or something would be handy, if the wire breaks and doesn't tangle which in my experience usually doesn't happen at those slow speeds if you can shut the drill off pretty quickly, you can literally burn off the enamel on both busted ends. Tie together. Dot of nail polish, clear enamel paint etc. Do 10 or so turns by hand, and have at it
You could sell it has a boutique pickup. :)
Always good to see diy. Need to armchair some advice; wire works better on smoothness, wrap a layer of tape first as screw threads are terrible.. As to noise hot glue does nothing, the wire to wire capacitance is working to absorb that in this pickup, the other way to go is to use foil wrapped once without touching itself and connecting one end to the pickup wire as your final outside layer.
Actually, getting back to the glue. When I first watched this I was thinking ac/radio noise, but yes, glue/varnish/wax will stop the wires from physically moving causing vibration noises. Of the options, wax is a good one, it soaks in but doesn't stop you from fixing the pickup in the future.
Hey man great video, how do you know what kind of headphones use those coils from the beginning?
Thanks! Lots of the big, over-ear type from the 70s/early 80s have them. I had to open these ones up, I didn’t know in advance.
Hinge Tailpiece/Bridge is pretty sick
Cool. Thank you for this . My logic oriented brain can't get enough for the info delivery method . Excellent infographics, editing, and pace. It was also actually very very informative to see you build your first draft . I had no idea plugs had copper wire, I suppose I have a new task today. I'm going to try and build this. Do you think that silicone glue sealant would work as a good insulator? If the coiled wires are not perfectly aligned, does it change the sound?
Silicone might work? I don’t see why it wouldn’t but I dunno.
All great questions, and having similar questions is what drove me to make this, so I guess just experiment! Youll find a lot of the hard-set rules ppl have about these things are really much more flexible than expected.
Good luck and be safe!
how thick is your wooden ruler? I made 2 of these and it works but holy hell, the wooden ruler breaks everytime. Super frustrating but thank you for making this video! Would love to see u make a humbucker
that guitar is super cool
How to conect it to audio
jack?
This dudes a hero
How many wire wraps did you do? Also can you use several wires (wound/ soldered together) to get the needed length?
i dunno about using several wires, i believe one, long, continuous wire is best practice. I did a few hundred wraps on this one, but for the best results you should use a thinner gauge wire and do upwards of 1000 wraps.
@@KeithDecent Thanks. Your video inspired me to make my own guitar.
Love the video. I do notice your string spacing (e to E) on the pickup is too wide but.....it’s a win. I am doing something rather similar and will be posting videos about it. Your video here has given me some ideas. Ideas of which I have too many of, and as such tend to leave a lot of little things lying around half finished for too long.
That's so awesome
I followed this but my pickup doesn’t pickup any sound from my guitar. When I tap the screw heads I get slight sounds from it but that’s it, what am I doing wrong here? What are some common mistakes?
i wouldnt really know, ive only done it one time. my guess is that either the winding got messed up or it might not be grounded properly. Good luck with it!
hi, great video! im planing to make one myself. could you say approximately how many turns youve made?
i dont recall, but theres lots of info out there about how many winds are necessary
What were the headphones you showed us at the start? Modern headphones just have a speaker. I think I could make something with those in the vid.
they were some late 70s / early 80s stereo headphones I found at a garage sale. theyre super cool.
here's a secret: speakers and microphones are essentially the same thing, only wired backwards.
Could you tell us what brand or where we could find headphones that you used
I cant remember exactly, but they were late 70s/early 80s, had a silver steel band with a red cover, red cups with no padding, and an "N" logo in red/blue/silver on each cup.
my assumption is most stereo type headphones from that era would work.
What makes a quality humbucker?
cool, i built self CBGs and crazy guitars too...
You can easily chisel out the EI steel core of the transformer.. 😁😁
By the way, nice demonstration...
I use a neck through design on cigar boxes, meaning I have to notch down into the neck to make room the pickup. Obviously weakening it. What's the absolute minimum depth I can get away with using this method?
This sounds like my first guitar
Please can you tell me how the wires are connected on the pickups
Can I connect this pickup with my laptop in my DAW with a headphone jack?
Kinda crazy how simple this is. What do the magnets on the bottom do?
they magnetize the posts (screws) to create the magnetic field around the pickup
ahh yes! That was what you said when the squiggly lines were on the screen. Is the pickup wired right into the jack?
you CAN wire it right into the jack, but in this case I wired it through a volume knob and then into the jack.
Really awesome, Keith! I learned something new!
Also, I saw your shoutout in the Modern Maker video recap. Thanks!
You need about 8000 turns of wire to get a good sound and usable output. For that you need 42 gauge wire or thinner.
A sewing machine works ok as a winder, a microswitch and a digital counter helps.
The more turns of wire the more output you have, but the less top end. A massively underwound pickup will sound obnoxiously bright.
good tip!
That's 0.063 mm wire, thin as fuck.
Doe a thicker brass wire effect the sound and what if you use 2 different sized brass wires and use both on a pick up will that effect the sound
@@Brandonh-vc6hd this is a contentious one. Not for the same number of turns and the rest of the pickup design being the same, provided you have the pickup in a regular guitar control circuit and plugged into something that behaves at least on the input side like a guitar amp. If you have no load or external capacitance across the pickup (no vol pot, near infinite amplifier DC resistance, no long coax cable), for example just using oscilloscope probes, there is a measurable difference but as soon as you simulate the rest of the circuit the difference is swamped by much larger capacitances and resistances. If the difference in wire gauge is huge then the difference in coil area will change the inductance. But you can totally make 42, 43 and 44 awg coils with the same turn count that sound and measure identical under real world conditions.
This is used by pickup manufacturers to obscure what they're doing for example the Dimarzio Evolution has one coil of about 7000 turns and one of about 7200 IIRC but one is 43AWG and the other is 44AWG so they have very different DC resistances. They are slightly mismatched, but actually less so than a conventional PAF with slugs and screws as the amount of core material alters the inductance, and my understanding is the 7200 coil replicates a slug coil and the 7000 coil replicates a fillister screw coil, whereas the actual construction is set screws (whatever the US size nearest M5 is) which are somewhere in between the two in behaviour.
DC resistance is only useful for comparison with the same wire gauge and the same construction, wherein it's a proxy for inductance.
Yes lots of people say they don't like pickups with 44AWG because it sounds so dark. What they really mean is they don't like pickups with so many turns on them that have to be made out of 44awg because that many turns of 43 and 42 awg won't fit.
I'm not convinced by wire insulation thickness either as the difference in capacitance might be 10 to 20pF but the capacitance of an instrument cable can vary between 300pF for a short good quality one and over 1000pF for a long awful one.
Shielded hookup cable like you'd use on a humbucker can be particularly high capacitance, like 320pF/metre whereas twisted pair can have good noise rejection and a capacitance of well below 50pF/metre and is getting to the point where me holding the probes alters the results so I don't have good numbers. I could set up stands in a test rig but mostly it becomes about measuring the test rig.
@@TheErilaz I've got some 0.050mm and I think one step thinner. For reference, printer/copier paper is usually around 0.10mm thick.
You could have improved it so much with the thin wire and more turns! Going slower while winding the coils takes patience but it's worth it.
yup, that would make it a lot better for sure, but it was late and i didnt want to go buy thinner ire (or wait for it to come in the mail) so I went with what I had.
This is the guitar you pass around to your freebird hollering savages over a case of beer in the garage to keep them away from your Les Paul or Strat. A random stray dart toss away from your baby and into this thing just gives it more character. This thing will attract stories, and become legend of the watercooler.
@@freedommatters9596 ... You're speaking my language Mr Freedom
@@KeithDecent had same thing happen with a girl ...lol
A thinner wire means more turns you can wrap around and this gives you more output. If I understood that correctly.
But does ist cange the tone as well?
To have ideal coverage by the magnetic field, the screws must be directly underneath each string. To be honest in this case, I think a rail core would have been a bit more suited. It would also allow you to put more magnets so a stronger field could make the output louder
Theres a lot of potential. Emphasis should be made on these are homemade. You can measure the strings location on your guitar to make the perfect fit you never see with factory pickups
Cool! Thanks for sharing, that's inspiring a lot of people!
What an interesting video! So cool! I want to try to make a pickup and guitar from scratch too! Do you have two wires going from each end of the pickup that then connect to the plug going to the amp? I'm going to thumbs up and subscribe to support you as this was very helpful!
thanks! Yeah you attach the beginning and end of the coil wire to the wire that leads to the jack on the guitar.
Could you possibly use copper tape instead or wire?
i dont know, but itd be an interesting experiment!
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I love that Shanta
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Absolutely fantastic plans. I love it Shanta !
Seems like holding a lighter on the coated wire risks destroying the insulation?
the point of holding a lighter to the wire is to destroy the insulation, yeah.
So you solder the start of the copper wire to positive and the end to ground, or do I have that backwards, or am I just totally wrong?
Can i use it for a bass
What!
So it's that easy
no way!!!!!!
WoW
I could not hear your guitar played could you make recordings for that that's very interesting how it sounds :-)
Is there a way to make a very slim guitar pickup at home? I'd like to make one that's fairly flat for my archtop. There isn't much space between the top and the strings.
Yep. I made this one too tall actually, but you can set your post height to whatever you want, so long as you can wind enough wire around them. If you can fit enough winds, you can make it wider or possibly longer to compensate. All of these will affect the tone/signal in their own way but experimenting is part of the fun!
Perfect!
simple and clear Explanation , love brooo
Ooooooooooh! Totally lovely! Just go for it! :D
that guitar looks rad AF!!!! love the pickup build too, this is exactly what i'm looking for!
Could you use disturtions?
yes you can