Awe man!!! That pickup sounds awesome!!! Ive never really got into the p90 that is until now, it IS the sound in my head, once again thank you SO much, awesome video.
Thank you for watching and leaving such a kind and positive comment. I thought the exact same thing when I started researching the subject. The first one I made using a ruler nails and fridge magnets and wound it with my hand and when it worked and sounded pretty good I was really confused. It also made me decide that a cheap pickup probably isn't a bad pickup. There arent enough parts there...Its just that getting a custom one or certain brand. Is just a matter of them using a different type of wire, magnet, and winding technique to get a particular tone. Thanks again I'm just glad I could help you out.
Thanks for the kind words Rob. I have to see how far I can push it. I'm not quite rolling my own capacitors just yet but its not out of the realm of possibilities I got some aluminum foil and tape on top of the fridge. LOL
Thank you so much homie, If the first one you make doesn't work well or at all just keep at it. Tinker with reflowing solder joints and even re-wind it if you have to. Its not a hard thing to do but the wire is very delicate and sometimes the smallest thing will prevent it from working at 100%. Once you get a good one though, its like second nature and you can start changing magnets rewinding or custom winding pickups for friends and such. Let your mind run wild. You may even invent the super mack daddy bad@ss pickup on accident, on the first try.
I love the background music while you're making the pickup! I've learned so much from this video----I've watched it several times. The only part that wasn't clear to me had to do with attaching the coil wires to the lead wires, but I bet you show that in more detail in some of your other pickup videos. Thank you for your creative, innovative, educational, and very entertaining videos!
It's fantastic to see people throwing out most of the ''rules and myths'' and just going for it and getting results that are pretty damm close to manufactures quality for a fraction of the price. I've often thought that the price driffrence from 30 to 150 bucks gets a little ridiculous and that probbably from 50 bucks you're just paying for the name. Nice video and nice pickup.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such a kind comment Morten. SO right you are. I grew up in an classic car restoration shop that my mother and stepdad ran and I saw then as a kid a theme. You can buy a decently fast 1980s Mustang or Camaro for example for hypothetically lets say 3500 bucks and it will probably already have some performance parts and mods on it as they often do.. it will be a tire burning fun machine but it you want to make it twice as fast and have a competitive racecar will cost you well over 10,000 dollars and months of weekends in a hot or freezing garage... not just another 3500.. If you now want it twice as fast as that... not 10 grand more it'll be about 35,000 dollars and a year of work plus test and tune etc. Its the law of diminishing returns almost all that extra money is in the last 5-10% better If you learn to build and mod the parts yourself though, you can do it almost as good for wayyy less. Buy pipe and a welder learn to weld exhaust instead of buying it pre made and paying for brand name + install, buy a die grinder and port your heads instead of buying name brand racing ones, learn to tune and diagnose it yourself etc. Same with gear. A Squire telecaster is a decent guitar especially a made in Japan one from the 80s. But a classic 60s tele that is twice as good is 20 times the price... but you can build a damn good custom one for a whole lot less and still have the tools at the end to do it again. I think it mostly comes down to whether you have more money or time and the drive to want to build you own things for pride and self worth's sake. Hell same with tools, buy a cheap tool that will work decent or an expensive one that will be 15% better for 3x the price or maybe you can build one somewhere in the middle.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such a kind comment Micah. I got that guitar for $30 from a thrift store and it became "the pickup testing mule" Hopefully it will see many more pickups before retirement.
Man, I love your content. I'm just kinda sad that the Mythbuster guitar is 3-4 years in the making and still not done yet. Hope you're doing okay, Clementine!
It might be all together and clearcoated and sitting in the corner in need of the electronics soldered and a setup... but that could be a rumor. Hahaha yeah bro Im good I was just doing life stuff I got a lot of stuff done for the channel just not much uploaded or edited yet.
Thank you so much Simon. I have to say I feel pretty lucky, I am just happy that people have seen it. I appreciate the interest and kind words as well as the subscription. Thanks again.
So I can easily mod my old duncan designed humbuckers with those neo magnets and get the pickup working to my taste... man you saved me getting rid of one single and three humbucking pickups... Please go on these series. Rock on
Thanks for watching and taking the time to watch and leave a kind comment David, Yes you can absolutely loosen the coil screws on a humbucker and slip the magnet out and slip one or maybe even 2 bars in there. If you have already tried the experiment let me know what kind of results you got.
I m in the middle of winding a rickenbacker bass pu. Thanks for the inspiration. And yes, wherever there is a hidden agenda, you can find a myth. Good work.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave such kind words Tom. It seemed like the right move for the oak guitar I am building. I cant wait to see what they look like in the holes. It was pretty kick@ss looking on the rendering and so far it is ending up to be pretty true to life. Thanks again.
I am just getting the interest in building my own 10-30 watt tube amp.. real basic.. and it led me to want to also see what it would take to build the electronics in a guitar, specifically the p90, and hotter single coils in an eventual effort to build my own t-style guitar and amp set up.. just to see the time, money it may take to do such a thing.. this is probably the best vid I’ve seen instructionally geared toward like you said myth busting and purist ousting lol. Thanks a ton.
Thank you so much William! I'm right there with you I really want to push it and see just how much I can do myself and how cheap I can do it as well as what is fact and what is marketing or "guitar dude" rules. I built the little yellow tube amp you see in the demos its a tweed champ circuit with an old 60s speaker from ebay in a recycled cabinet. I made a video on the amp build if you think that might help you in some way: th-cam.com/video/KEja2LBmGHs/w-d-xo.html If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment on one of the videos. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I took a break from YT but I'm back ready to work with a fresh perspective better videography gear and a lot of upcoming projects. Thanks again I'm glad that you enjoy my unorthodox approach and I hope the videos can help you in some way along your journey.
Man, that thing sounds great! I love P90s, definitely my favorite. I will definitely be giving this a try. Oh, by the way, I got a huge block of beeswax at Goodwill for a couple bucks, and a block of paraffin from my local pharmacy for a couple bucks. Got the "boutique" blend of roughly half and half for next to nothing 😁
Thank you I mostly did this as a proof of concept that a neo-magnet pickup could sound good but I guess I converted myself. I think most all the pickups I build from now on will be neodymium. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and leave kind words.
Thank you so much Rob I hope that this video could help you with building or understanding pickups in some way or at least let you chill and escape for a few minutes. thanks again.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a kind comment Alfred. Got a lot more pickup experiments coming in the near future. I'm glad you can handle my strange attitude and understand where I'm coming from with these experiments.
Absolutely hahaha. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Brad. Yeah I need to bust one open and build a legit winder from its motor and controller
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment J. I tell you what, I sure did... I hate those damn things. They sting the hell out of you and they come in here every spring and search everywhere for any open container or crumb. I even have to keep dog food in a closed Sterilite bin. I tried to edit around them but it just wasn't possible without cutting useful info.
Amazing video! I need your help, I am trying to build a pickup but I don't have that orange cable. I bought some spool of copper for welding, but the resistance of the pickup is about 0. So I wonder if the orange cable should be stripped??
Thank you for commenting. But, no stripping the welding wire wont help you out the problem is that it is already conductive on the outside so that it can work in a mig welder making contact with the tip and passing current. (I was a welder for many years) What you need is a copper wire that is coated so it is NON-conductive on the outside. It has to keep from making connection with the other winds of wire or it will have zero resistance as you have found and will be shorted out with no sound. The polyurethane or varnish coated wire you need can be found in coils like inside a wall charger or a hair trimmer. It is very thin like smaller than a hair but this allows much more winding and higher resistance that will equal a louder pickup. You will need to sand or burn the ends though so it will remove the coating and make contact when you need to hook a wire to it. Here is a video showing a pickup I wound with the wire from an electric hair shaver. th-cam.com/video/VLMNXMMaU8o/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for watching and leaving such an interesting question Victor. I dont see any reason why this wouldnt work. It would likely sound like a goldfoil but with a lot more focus and clarity... I will put this in my suggestions and if/when I make the video I will give you a shoutout. thats a good question, thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave a comment Wallace. I did make a set of split 3 pole humbuckers if they were put on a plate it would be a 3 string humbucker but I did it to use as singles like a Z-coil or P-bass pickup. But, I am sure I will make many more pickups for future projects and firebird pickups have a great sound. Thanks again. Here is the split humbucker video: th-cam.com/video/Nz5GDlFqHO4/w-d-xo.html
Love this, dispelling the bs that flies around. So, if you wound about 8000 it would be about 8ohms, 10,000 10ohms? So you don't need any kind of wood spacer between the two wood pieces? Use put the poles in then wind around them? Hmm. I suppose you could use the right metal screws/poles so you could adjust the height of each pole, but the outer ones might come out and mess with the whole spacing thing??
Thanks Michael, The wraps to ohms thing all depends on pickup size and design and wire type and coating type/thickness as well as tension or stretch put on the wire and how scattered or uniform it is. I'm sure their are calculators you can find online that show certain ball park estimates for winds vs ohms on certain pickup designs with a specified wire sizes and traverse or scatter. Different types of pickups have different builds, an old strat pickup was made with a black thick cardboard material as the flat work and the wire was just wrapped straight on to the poles but I think the original P90s had a wooden spacer in the middle that the wire was wrapped around, They also had adjustable screws like you mentioned, it is possible with the wooden spacer because it doesn't scratch the coating off the wire and short the winds out if you screw it in and out. Many of the newer pickups and even the older cheap pickups use a 1 piece plastic bobbin that has a spacer built in, that can be a good thing because the wire cannot corrode and short to the poles over the years, a strip of tape on naked poles can prevent this as well but it may change the sound maybe 1-2% from an original 50s pickup, its all small changes but it all adds up to a finished product in the end. 10 things slightly different at 2% change equals a 20% different operation in the pickup so basically a totally different sound waveform to the amp so after amplification and depending on the gain stages of the amp and the pedals etc = completely different sound to the ear.
Thank you so much RAMA. If you can handle my strange attitude and outside the box way of thinking and building then... I have no choice but to like you as well. Thanks.
heavymetalATC..i wonder how warm the wax was in the wonderwaxpotter..i seem to remember that above 70 or so Celsius the metals in neodym start to re-arrange and they lose their power..
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write write such an intelligent comment Mikko. I think I had someone ask me this on a forum and I thought man that is a great point, it may be doing that, and I don't actually know how hot the wax is getting but id say 100-120F It wont burn you, you can stick your finger in it...it could have an effect? though I didn't notice any difference in output before and after potting. Great comment.
@@heavymetalATC 120F would be about 50C which is quite well below that temp at which SUPPOSEDLY neodyms lose their attraction..keep your tail up high!!!..that is a Finnish term that refers to a happy cat i think..
@@heavymetalATC Yeah man, it was very risky. Magnets are best glued after waxing. And on a simpler glue, which will be easy to peel off, in case of repair, for example.
The magnets in this pickup have the south pole glued to the back of the bobbin. but it can be either as long as they are both the same... It doesnt matter which way unless you are using it with other pickups and in that case you want them to match for in phase or be different from each other for out of phase... you can check it with a simple compass.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment CU. Yes the split pickup is a double 3 humbucker I have a build and test vid of it here: th-cam.com/video/Nz5GDlFqHO4/w-d-xo.html
In your split humbucker build, you mentioned that you eventually added 12 more neodymium button magnets to this P90 to "match perceived output." I am doing a single pickup for an acoustic guitar. Could I simply add on additional bar magnets (instead of button magnets) if I wanted to increase this P90's output? Or would 2 bar magnets be enough for an acoustic pickup, where I am not using multiple pickups? How does more magnets affect the tone (brighter or warmer)? Thank you so much! I would much rather make my own pickups instead of invest in a real one, because I am only be using it pickup to test out an amp that I ordered, but only have an unplugged acoustic. I have an acoustic-electric guitar coming on the way, later this year, so I won't really be needing an external pickup. This project would just be so I can test my amp with the guitar I have right now, until the new guitar comes.
Thank you for watching. 2 bar magnets should be just fine for an acoustic pickup maybe even one bar. You can do some experiments before you decide to glue it or them on. More magnet and diferent magnet placement can slightly brighten the tone and affect dynamics like how thumpy or twangy it is but it mostly just makes it louder. More winds of coil wire like 8-10 thousand will also make it louder but it will dull the sound a bit (you will still need several thousand winds minimum for it to work right though). The best way to control the tone and the overall volume is to vary the pickup placement. how close it is to the string = how loud it will be and if you place it towards the neck end of the sound hole it will have more bass and if you place it closer towards the bridge it will have more treble sound. You may also catch the bug and find yourself experimenting a lot with the pickup and maybe even building another. If you get it to sound the way you want you may even find that being an actual magnetic pickup and not a contact pickup like in most acoustic electrics it could even sound better than the new guitar in certain ways. Best of luck and if you have more questions or any problems feel free to message me. It may take me a while to respond but I'll eventually do so. If all else fails there are some cheap acoustic pickups on the market at as low as $10-$20. They wont sound fantastic and wont be able to be easily modded to your tone preferences but you will be able to test the amp and play in the meantime. Thanks again for checking out the video.
I don’t get the hate for neo’s, my favourite pick ups are neodymium and they’re just such a nice, versatile sound to me, but hey if more people liked them they’d get more expensive
Thanks Jacob and yes I'm right there with you. Its just marketing and myths spread in the guitar community but if you know better then its a good thing because like you said its still cheap right now.
Correct. Its kind of a mix of an even bigger Jazz Master pickup and P90 magnet setup and mounting minus a backplate (would add too much bass) but Its just specific to this guitar build and a function of working around the rare earth magnets to prove a point I've even used framing nails as poles in tests and as long as its steel it makes next to no difference.
Thanks Rama. I actually did end up adding 12 neo buttons on this pickup when I built the split coil 3 pole humbuckers for the neck. It didnt have enough output to compete. The reason I didnt just put it on the low strings is because the split coils are designed for a very bass heavy vintage strat sound and I am going to put them on blend knobs to act like a physical equalizer so I wanted the p90 to stay very bright and high. Thanks again.
Hahha ah, I shouldve been more clear. A normal pen shaped or solder station type soldering iron uses a resistive heater that is safe for magnets a big industrial pistol-grip style iron uses a big coil to generate the heat and it puts off a strong magnetic field... the normal little soldering iron everyone uses is safe.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment Jack. The reason for the wax is to kinda glue the coil together. if the winds are loose the pickup with react to vibrations like if you tap the guitar you will hear it and it can feedback at high volume but if you are going for a more open acoustic sound and not using high volume or distortion you may want to leave it unpotted or put it in the wax for a shorter amount of time. Thats part of customizing your tone. as well as how much magnet power you use will affect volume and gain: more is more here. If you want a darker blazing strong modern sounding pickup use more winds like up to 9000-12000 or just fill the bobbin up. If you want a softer more articulate in the treble range sound like a vintage pickup use less winds like 3000-5500 or just 3/4 fill the bobbin. They all work together and you can make it sound any way you want with trial and error. It makes me so happy to hear that you want to try some experiments and build some things. I apologize for the late response I took a break from youtube but I'm back and fresh with better gear more projects and ready to work and help in anyway I can. If you have any problems or questions feel free to drop a comment and I will try to get back to you in a more timely manner. Thanks agaiin
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave a comment Serpent Apple Music. I gotta admit the amp is awesome and it helps but if that mythological string pulling magnetism were there it just wouldn't ring out like it does... it would warble and die out like a strat with the pickups too high.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment I agree Michael, Id love to have a mill and a lathe and a cnc as well but I just simply don't have the funds for such. Id also probably just use them to make boomsticks and pew pews anyway. Hahaha
@@heavymetalATC printers are on Amazon for about ~$200 and will be the best purchase in your life. By far my most useful tool. I bought a cheap one back in 2017 and it's still truckin! Get a Creality Ender 3 or 5, best bang for the buck.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave such a kind comment Sharon. This comment just decied to pop up in my list 1 year later? Strange but either way I surely appreciate the interest and support.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment els. Im glad you got a kick outta that one. I have since built a little tube preamp with tone stack for the same purpose.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment Dude. That is a freaking AWESOME and HILARIOUS comment! I was like yes it is you @sshole... wait, HAHAHAHAHA! I am taking this as a Suggestion or maybe a challenge. I am going to think on it and see if I can make a plan to make a transparent amp.. like see through and I will say thats not a plexi? THIS is a plexi! lol seriously I have been inspired I am going to look into this and If/When I make one and put out a video I will definitely feature that fantastic comment and give you a shoutout. Thanks bro that was 1 hell of a funny comment.
@@heavymetalATC Hahahah, I had the "plexi" comment queued up in my brain before/as I was reading your comment 😆 Back on topic, I thought the twangy Duane Eddy sound that pickup did was awesome.
Beatles jokes, sling blade jokes, sketchy pickup experiments, dude this channel is like heaven
thanks again Benjamin, I should be back to making vids soon.
Man, that P90 sounds nice! I love your non-counting approach to winding, too. Thanks for sharing.
Awe man!!! That pickup sounds awesome!!! Ive never really got into the p90 that is until now, it IS the sound in my head, once again thank you SO much, awesome video.
The resistance is what really matters and the wire you use matters. Measure the ohms and wind till you get what you want makes way more sense.
Love the leopard skin EQ, easy to use and effective. All in all it was a success I would say.
Great job, enjoy your humor. Amazing how much they get for pickups when they are really such simple science, thanks for showing us how.
Thank you for watching and leaving such a kind and positive comment. I thought the exact same thing when I started researching the subject. The first one I made using a ruler nails and fridge magnets and wound it with my hand and when it worked and sounded pretty good I was really confused. It also made me decide that a cheap pickup probably isn't a bad pickup. There arent enough parts there...Its just that getting a custom one or certain brand. Is just a matter of them using a different type of wire, magnet, and winding technique to get a particular tone. Thanks again I'm just glad I could help you out.
A lot of heart and soul in that pick up!
Thanks for the kind words Rob. I have to see how far I can push it. I'm not quite rolling my own capacitors just yet but its not out of the realm of possibilities I got some aluminum foil and tape on top of the fridge. LOL
This channel is one of the best on YT for sure. I'm gonna try my hand at pickup making now. Thanks homez🤘
Thank you so much homie, If the first one you make doesn't work well or at all just keep at it. Tinker with reflowing solder joints and even re-wind it if you have to. Its not a hard thing to do but the wire is very delicate and sometimes the smallest thing will prevent it from working at 100%. Once you get a good one though, its like second nature and you can start changing magnets rewinding or custom winding pickups for friends and such. Let your mind run wild. You may even invent the super mack daddy bad@ss pickup on accident, on the first try.
im thinking bic lighter springs taped with electrical tape and would 1.5k for each string
I love the background music while you're making the pickup! I've learned so much from this video----I've watched it several times. The only part that wasn't clear to me had to do with attaching the coil wires to the lead wires, but I bet you show that in more detail in some of your other pickup videos. Thank you for your creative, innovative, educational, and very entertaining videos!
Just found your channel and I am lovin' it.
Thank you so much for watching and leaving such an awesome comment Snake P. I appreciate the kind words.
It's fantastic to see people throwing out most of the ''rules and myths'' and just going for it and getting results that are pretty damm close to manufactures quality for a fraction of the price. I've often thought that the price driffrence from 30 to 150 bucks gets a little ridiculous and that probbably from 50 bucks you're just paying for the name. Nice video and nice pickup.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such a kind comment Morten. SO right you are. I grew up in an classic car restoration shop that my mother and stepdad ran and I saw then as a kid a theme. You can buy a decently fast 1980s Mustang or Camaro for example for hypothetically lets say 3500 bucks and it will probably already have some performance parts and mods on it as they often do.. it will be a tire burning fun machine but it you want to make it twice as fast and have a competitive racecar will cost you well over 10,000 dollars and months of weekends in a hot or freezing garage... not just another 3500.. If you now want it twice as fast as that... not 10 grand more it'll be about 35,000 dollars and a year of work plus test and tune etc. Its the law of diminishing returns almost all that extra money is in the last 5-10% better If you learn to build and mod the parts yourself though, you can do it almost as good for wayyy less. Buy pipe and a welder learn to weld exhaust instead of buying it pre made and paying for brand name + install, buy a die grinder and port your heads instead of buying name brand racing ones, learn to tune and diagnose it yourself etc. Same with gear. A Squire telecaster is a decent guitar especially a made in Japan one from the 80s. But a classic 60s tele that is twice as good is 20 times the price... but you can build a damn good custom one for a whole lot less and still have the tools at the end to do it again. I think it mostly comes down to whether you have more money or time and the drive to want to build you own things for pride and self worth's sake. Hell same with tools, buy a cheap tool that will work decent or an expensive one that will be 15% better for 3x the price or maybe you can build one somewhere in the middle.
Best damn Lyon guitar I've ever heard! Bravo!
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such a kind comment Micah. I got that guitar for $30 from a thrift store and it became "the pickup testing mule" Hopefully it will see many more pickups before retirement.
Loved the video. Subscribed.
Man, I love your content. I'm just kinda sad that the Mythbuster guitar is 3-4 years in the making and still not done yet. Hope you're doing okay, Clementine!
It might be all together and clearcoated and sitting in the corner in need of the electronics soldered and a setup... but that could be a rumor. Hahaha yeah bro Im good I was just doing life stuff I got a lot of stuff done for the channel just not much uploaded or edited yet.
Cheers and Well Done! 15k views and only 641 likes? I don't get it. You deserve better. Any way you got a new sub out of the deal.
Thank you so much Simon. I have to say I feel pretty lucky, I am just happy that people have seen it. I appreciate the interest and kind words as well as the subscription. Thanks again.
Great video!
So I can easily mod my old duncan designed humbuckers with those neo magnets and get the pickup working to my taste... man you saved me getting rid of one single and three humbucking pickups... Please go on these series. Rock on
Thanks for watching and taking the time to watch and leave a kind comment David, Yes you can absolutely loosen the coil screws on a humbucker and slip the magnet out and slip one or maybe even 2 bars in there. If you have already tried the experiment let me know what kind of results you got.
I m in the middle of winding a rickenbacker bass pu. Thanks for the inspiration. And yes, wherever there is a hidden agenda, you can find a myth. Good work.
Rock on!
awesome wish you could mod guitar into 12 7 or 8 string now i can make a pickup for it
wow, sounds great!!
Etienne Lacroix - Videoproducties Thank you. Its just the result of experimentation.
Very cool transformation..love it ....🤘 😎 🎵🎵🎸
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such an awesome kind and positive comment Mr.fatbob.
@@heavymetalATC your welcome, have a grea day ,from
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Nice bookmatched pine flatwork, liberated from its piney prison. Nice!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave such kind words Tom. It seemed like the right move for the oak guitar I am building. I cant wait to see what they look like in the holes. It was pretty kick@ss looking on the rendering and so far it is ending up to be pretty true to life. Thanks again.
This is a beautiful thing man.
thanks again Bro!
I like your style.
A Jazzmaster-esque P90.
Thanks you so much for watching Dario... Exactly you nailed it. jazz/90 Hahaha.
I am just getting the interest in building my own 10-30 watt tube amp.. real basic.. and it led me to want to also see what it would take to build the electronics in a guitar, specifically the p90, and hotter single coils in an eventual effort to build my own t-style guitar and amp set up.. just to see the time, money it may take to do such a thing.. this is probably the best vid I’ve seen instructionally geared toward like you said myth busting and purist ousting lol. Thanks a ton.
Thank you so much William! I'm right there with you I really want to push it and see just how much I can do myself and how cheap I can do it as well as what is fact and what is marketing or "guitar dude" rules. I built the little yellow tube amp you see in the demos its a tweed champ circuit with an old 60s speaker from ebay in a recycled cabinet. I made a video on the amp build if you think that might help you in some way: th-cam.com/video/KEja2LBmGHs/w-d-xo.html
If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment on one of the videos. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I took a break from YT but I'm back ready to work with a fresh perspective better videography gear and a lot of upcoming projects. Thanks again I'm glad that you enjoy my unorthodox approach and I hope the videos can help you in some way along your journey.
Thank you for making things possible
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such kind words Iggy.
Man, that thing sounds great! I love P90s, definitely my favorite. I will definitely be giving this a try. Oh, by the way, I got a huge block of beeswax at Goodwill for a couple bucks, and a block of paraffin from my local pharmacy for a couple bucks. Got the "boutique" blend of roughly half and half for next to nothing 😁
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such a kind comment Guitfidle. Heck yeah man thats the way to do it, great find.
Very interesting video! Thanks from Russia! 👍
Sounds great
Thank you I mostly did this as a proof of concept that a neo-magnet pickup could sound good but I guess I converted myself. I think most all the pickups I build from now on will be neodymium. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and leave kind words.
Awesome video. Subscribed 👍👍👍
Thank you so much.
Fantastic!
Thank you so much Rob I hope that this video could help you with building or understanding pickups in some way or at least let you chill and escape for a few minutes. thanks again.
Very cool.
You’re too much, man! This stuff is great! 👍👍👍
Thank you Matt, I appreciate the opportunity to try to entertain you bro.
It sounds good clean and dirty
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write a kind comment Beezis. I'm glad you dig the tones.
Thanks mate!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a kind comment Hanhtar.
Dude! You Rock!
Hilarious too! 🤣👍👏
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a kind comment Alfred. Got a lot more pickup experiments coming in the near future. I'm glad you can handle my strange attitude and understand where I'm coming from with these experiments.
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You’re welcome brother! Keep up the good work and the sense of humor 👍
I see we both shop at Harbor freight religiously. That sounds fantastic. I'm gonna have to hit marketplace and find a sewing winder!
Absolutely hahaha. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Brad. Yeah I need to bust one open and build a legit winder from its motor and controller
exel job is one of the best videos I have see congras talk to you later.
Thank you so much Rub sorry for the late response but Im back and I should be making videos much more regularly.
man, sounds beautiful and hairy.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to write a kind comment. I ended up putting 12 more button magnets on this thing and man it really barks.
Thankyoupick guita ilove guita❤
awesome
Thanks again brother I appreciate the kind words.
BTW Rebel Rouser by Duane Eddy should be played on neck pickup. Just for info.
Awesome video...did anyone else notice the ants crawling on the carpet around 1:53 ?
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment J. I tell you what, I sure did... I hate those damn things. They sting the hell out of you and they come in here every spring and search everywhere for any open container or crumb. I even have to keep dog food in a closed Sterilite bin. I tried to edit around them but it just wasn't possible without cutting useful info.
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Awesome, thank you avi bank much appreciated.
Amazing video!
I need your help, I am trying to build a pickup but I don't have that orange cable. I bought some spool of copper for welding, but the resistance of the pickup is about 0. So I wonder if the orange cable should be stripped??
Thank you for commenting. But, no stripping the welding wire wont help you out the problem is that it is already conductive on the outside so that it can work in a mig welder making contact with the tip and passing current. (I was a welder for many years) What you need is a copper wire that is coated so it is NON-conductive on the outside. It has to keep from making connection with the other winds of wire or it will have zero resistance as you have found and will be shorted out with no sound. The polyurethane or varnish coated wire you need can be found in coils like inside a wall charger or a hair trimmer. It is very thin like smaller than a hair but this allows much more winding and higher resistance that will equal a louder pickup. You will need to sand or burn the ends though so it will remove the coating and make contact when you need to hook a wire to it. Here is a video showing a pickup I wound with the wire from an electric hair shaver. th-cam.com/video/VLMNXMMaU8o/w-d-xo.html
Your pup sounds great but a lot of trouble to build a bobbin when you can simply buy one for $5. Loved the sound, though!
Also you can take some of the old worn vinil records and make your flatworks from them.
I dont think you got the point of the video. It aint about going easy and buying premade.
Will you make a video "flat vs tall pickups "?
I've been wondering, can you put two bar magnets around the pole pieces and wind the copper around the magnets?
Thank you for watching and leaving such an interesting question Victor. I dont see any reason why this wouldnt work. It would likely sound like a goldfoil but with a lot more focus and clarity... I will put this in my suggestions and if/when I make the video I will give you a shoutout. thats a good question, thank you.
Would like to see a Mini Humbucker and a Firebird Mini Humbucker video!
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave a comment Wallace. I did make a set of split 3 pole humbuckers if they were put on a plate it would be a 3 string humbucker but I did it to use as singles like a Z-coil or P-bass pickup. But, I am sure I will make many more pickups for future projects and firebird pickups have a great sound. Thanks again.
Here is the split humbucker video: th-cam.com/video/Nz5GDlFqHO4/w-d-xo.html
@@heavymetalATC thanks bud
Нравится мне звукосниматель Р90.
Я бы сделал отводы от обмотки.Типа,5 км,6 км,7 км,8 км,9 км,10км, и так далее.И потом выбирай звук по вкусу.
Спасибо, что посмотрели и нашли время, чтобы прокомментировать видео, которое я сделал на черном les paul, это был 9.6k p90, и у него есть сок.
Love this, dispelling the bs that flies around. So, if you wound about 8000 it would be about 8ohms, 10,000 10ohms? So you don't need any kind of wood spacer between the two wood pieces? Use put the poles in then wind around them? Hmm. I suppose you could use the right metal screws/poles so you could adjust the height of each pole, but the outer ones might come out and mess with the whole spacing thing??
Thanks Michael, The wraps to ohms thing all depends on pickup size and design and wire type and coating type/thickness as well as tension or stretch put on the wire and how scattered or uniform it is. I'm sure their are calculators you can find online that show certain ball park estimates for winds vs ohms on certain pickup designs with a specified wire sizes and traverse or scatter. Different types of pickups have different builds, an old strat pickup was made with a black thick cardboard material as the flat work and the wire was just wrapped straight on to the poles but I think the original P90s had a wooden spacer in the middle that the wire was wrapped around, They also had adjustable screws like you mentioned, it is possible with the wooden spacer because it doesn't scratch the coating off the wire and short the winds out if you screw it in and out. Many of the newer pickups and even the older cheap pickups use a 1 piece plastic bobbin that has a spacer built in, that can be a good thing because the wire cannot corrode and short to the poles over the years, a strip of tape on naked poles can prevent this as well but it may change the sound maybe 1-2% from an original 50s pickup, its all small changes but it all adds up to a finished product in the end. 10 things slightly different at 2% change equals a 20% different operation in the pickup so basically a totally different sound waveform to the amp so after amplification and depending on the gain stages of the amp and the pedals etc = completely different sound to the ear.
I like you!
Thank you so much RAMA. If you can handle my strange attitude and outside the box way of thinking and building then... I have no choice but to like you as well. Thanks.
I just gotta know, what year and model is that Leopard Print Tone Pillow?
I was thinking about a mule guitar as you call it. Do you have any advice?
heavymetalATC..i wonder how warm the wax was in the wonderwaxpotter..i seem to remember that above 70 or so Celsius the metals in neodym start to re-arrange and they lose their power..
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write write such an intelligent comment Mikko. I think I had someone ask me this on a forum and I thought man that is a great point, it may be doing that, and I don't actually know how hot the wax is getting but id say 100-120F It wont burn you, you can stick your finger in it...it could have an effect? though I didn't notice any difference in output before and after potting. Great comment.
@@heavymetalATC 120F would be about 50C which is quite well below that temp at which SUPPOSEDLY neodyms lose their attraction..keep your tail up high!!!..that is a Finnish term that refers to a happy cat i think..
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Yeah man, it was very risky.
Magnets are best glued after waxing.
And on a simpler glue, which will be easy to peel off, in case of repair, for example.
Maybe i missed it but where are you connecting your leads to on the pickup? One around the pole magnets and the other where?
Which pole (north or south) of the magnet strip do you glue to the pickup?
The magnets in this pickup have the south pole glued to the back of the bobbin. but it can be either as long as they are both the same... It doesnt matter which way unless you are using it with other pickups and in that case you want them to match for in phase or be different from each other for out of phase... you can check it with a simple compass.
What is the thickness of the pine veneer pieces?
Is that double a silent pickup? 3 poles south and 3 north?
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment CU. Yes the split pickup is a double 3 humbucker I have a build and test vid of it here: th-cam.com/video/Nz5GDlFqHO4/w-d-xo.html
In your split humbucker build, you mentioned that you eventually added 12 more neodymium button magnets to this P90 to "match perceived output."
I am doing a single pickup for an acoustic guitar. Could I simply add on additional bar magnets (instead of button magnets) if I wanted to increase this P90's output? Or would 2 bar magnets be enough for an acoustic pickup, where I am not using multiple pickups? How does more magnets affect the tone (brighter or warmer)?
Thank you so much!
I would much rather make my own pickups instead of invest in a real one, because I am only be using it pickup to test out an amp that I ordered, but only have an unplugged acoustic.
I have an acoustic-electric guitar coming on the way, later this year, so I won't really be needing an external pickup. This project would just be so I can test my amp with the guitar I have right now, until the new guitar comes.
Thank you for watching. 2 bar magnets should be just fine for an acoustic pickup maybe even one bar. You can do some experiments before you decide to glue it or them on. More magnet and diferent magnet placement can slightly brighten the tone and affect dynamics like how thumpy or twangy it is but it mostly just makes it louder. More winds of coil wire like 8-10 thousand will also make it louder but it will dull the sound a bit (you will still need several thousand winds minimum for it to work right though). The best way to control the tone and the overall volume is to vary the pickup placement. how close it is to the string = how loud it will be and if you place it towards the neck end of the sound hole it will have more bass and if you place it closer towards the bridge it will have more treble sound. You may also catch the bug and find yourself experimenting a lot with the pickup and maybe even building another. If you get it to sound the way you want you may even find that being an actual magnetic pickup and not a contact pickup like in most acoustic electrics it could even sound better than the new guitar in certain ways. Best of luck and if you have more questions or any problems feel free to message me. It may take me a while to respond but I'll eventually do so. If all else fails there are some cheap acoustic pickups on the market at as low as $10-$20. They wont sound fantastic and wont be able to be easily modded to your tone preferences but you will be able to test the amp and play in the meantime. Thanks again for checking out the video.
I don’t get the hate for neo’s, my favourite pick ups are neodymium and they’re just such a nice, versatile sound to me, but hey if more people liked them they’d get more expensive
Thanks Jacob and yes I'm right there with you. Its just marketing and myths spread in the guitar community but if you know better then its a good thing because like you said its still cheap right now.
Pretty sure you built yourself a larger single pickup. P90 pickups don't have pole pieces but adjustable screws for poles.
Correct. Its kind of a mix of an even bigger Jazz Master pickup and P90 magnet setup and mounting minus a backplate (would add too much bass) but Its just specific to this guitar build and a function of working around the rare earth magnets to prove a point I've even used framing nails as poles in tests and as long as its steel it makes next to no difference.
@@heavymetalATC exactly.. all you lose by not using screws is adjustability .. which is a nice feature..
Try ska and add buttons neodymium to lows
Thanks Rama. I actually did end up adding 12 neo buttons on this pickup when I built the split coil 3 pole humbuckers for the neck. It didnt have enough output to compete. The reason I didnt just put it on the low strings is because the split coils are designed for a very bass heavy vintage strat sound and I am going to put them on blend knobs to act like a physical equalizer so I wanted the p90 to stay very bright and high. Thanks again.
Thank You! Can you tell me if the magnets were matched opposed north or south pole and you said 7.5ohms winding of 42gauge magnet wire?!
If you aren't suppose to solder, how do you connect the terminals?
Hahha ah, I shouldve been more clear. A normal pen shaped or solder station type soldering iron uses a resistive heater that is safe for magnets a big industrial pistol-grip style iron uses a big coil to generate the heat and it puts off a strong magnetic field... the normal little soldering iron everyone uses is safe.
Imagine showing up to play guitar with a pillow XD
“Do you guys have any pillows?
Thats a tone pillow :)
So you're dunking it in hot wax to insulate it? I'm gonna try this build and this is the bit that I am unsure of.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment Jack. The reason for the wax is to kinda glue the coil together. if the winds are loose the pickup with react to vibrations like if you tap the guitar you will hear it and it can feedback at high volume but if you are going for a more open acoustic sound and not using high volume or distortion you may want to leave it unpotted or put it in the wax for a shorter amount of time. Thats part of customizing your tone. as well as how much magnet power you use will affect volume and gain: more is more here. If you want a darker blazing strong modern sounding pickup use more winds like up to 9000-12000 or just fill the bobbin up. If you want a softer more articulate in the treble range sound like a vintage pickup use less winds like 3000-5500 or just 3/4 fill the bobbin. They all work together and you can make it sound any way you want with trial and error. It makes me so happy to hear that you want to try some experiments and build some things. I apologize for the late response I took a break from youtube but I'm back and fresh with better gear more projects and ready to work and help in anyway I can. If you have any problems or questions feel free to drop a comment and I will try to get back to you in a more timely manner. Thanks agaiin
how did it go i tried a guitar project now im waiting on parts
How strong are the Neo magnets you use?
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Maurice. They are N94 magnets 60x10x3 mm they claim to have a pull of 15lb.
How can i contact you?
It even Djents
And its single coil. I thought that might be an important feature for some viewers. \m/ Thanks for all the support bro.
What wire do you use?
Thanks for watching Wallace sessions. This pickup was wound with 42 AWG Remington Poly.
sustain for days
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave a comment Serpent Apple Music. I gotta admit the amp is awesome and it helps but if that mythological string pulling magnetism were there it just wouldn't ring out like it does... it would warble and die out like a strat with the pickups too high.
You sir NEED a 3D printer!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment I agree Michael, Id love to have a mill and a lathe and a cnc as well but I just simply don't have the funds for such. Id also probably just use them to make boomsticks and pew pews anyway. Hahaha
@@heavymetalATC printers are on Amazon for about ~$200 and will be the best purchase in your life. By far my most useful tool. I bought a cheap one back in 2017 and it's still truckin! Get a Creality Ender 3 or 5, best bang for the buck.
@@MichaelJeffers75 Thank you for the suggestion I'll really look into that.
Great vid-just proves what a load of BS is used selling boutique pups!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave such a kind comment Sharon. This comment just decied to pop up in my list 1 year later? Strange but either way I surely appreciate the interest and support.
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"How to eq a 5F1" 🤣💀
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment els. Im glad you got a kick outta that one. I have since built a little tube preamp with tone stack for the same purpose.
That tube amp aint transparent 'tall...I can't see shit through it.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment Dude. That is a freaking AWESOME and HILARIOUS comment! I was like yes it is you @sshole... wait, HAHAHAHAHA! I am taking this as a Suggestion or maybe a challenge. I am going to think on it and see if I can make a plan to make a transparent amp.. like see through and I will say thats not a plexi? THIS is a plexi! lol seriously I have been inspired I am going to look into this and If/When I make one and put out a video I will definitely feature that fantastic comment and give you a shoutout. Thanks bro that was 1 hell of a funny comment.
@@heavymetalATC Hahahah, I had the "plexi" comment queued up in my brain before/as I was reading your comment 😆 Back on topic, I thought the twangy Duane Eddy sound that pickup did was awesome.