Thanks so much! I didn't feel like I was playing very good at all and almost didn't post the video because I thought it was all bad. I'm having more trouble with my hand and not being able to play well because of that, I may have to switch to 8 gauge strings pretty soon. I might do a short video about that switch. Thanks for the nice comment.
@@jacqueslapidieux3182 I never compromise, I never make things up like the others do. All I did was ask questions until I found real answers, that nobody else had a hint of. It was all based in real science, scores of tests in real company laboratories in big companies that educated me and told me exactly what all the materials in vintage PAF's actually WERE based on destructive testing of some materials, and many OTHER things you can't even see until you completely dissect them and record every single measurement of every single part. This is why I laughed my butt off when Gibson claims they "reverse engineered" their thousand dollar Custom Buckers. When a company tries to fool their customers, people lose respect for them. When they lied about their famous fake "bee" capacitors that had cheap 15 cent caps inside a fake plastic shell, it revealed exactly who they really are. You never know what they are really selling to us.
You're a true romantic Dave! Unlike Gibson, who under their new management, have become more commercially driven than ever before for not too much authenticity. I'm so happy people like yourself are around to educate the rest of us@@SDPickups
@@jacqueslapidieux3182 Thanks. Gibson started scamming people around 1970. Guys were buying up 50's originals and driving prices up even then. Their ad campaign came out with "WE ARE BRINGING BACK THE LES PAUL!" So, I bought one with every dime I could save up. What the guitar was, was a PLYWOOD wood sandwich, with crap minibuckers, sounded terrible. I hated that guitar, so I bought some buckers direct from Gibson, hoping they would get the Clapton sound, well it sounded even worse. I got rid of that thing as fast as I could before it became common knowledge that Gibson was deceiving all of us. To this day I still see guys who bought those for a ton of money, claiming they sound better than God, LOL. No they don't. You need a full pedal board to get any kind of tone out of them. They have been deceiving people continuously up to this day. The "Historic" Les Pauls were NOT "historic." Neither were the "True Historics." Murphy Labs? NOPE. And. how many "Slash" guitar models have they sold, LOL. You are right, the new owners are money counters, make up marketing stories that have zero truth and grab the money. If you bought a "muscle car" thats supposed to be a true replica of an original and opened the hood and found a VW motor, thats what Gibson is doing now. As an aside, the ORIGINAL minihumbuckers were first only used on Epiphone guitars, they had PAF decals on the bottom and were 7K and higher, and sound like little PAF's, GREAT PICKUPS. The minis on the LP Deluxe used cheap poly wire instead of the PAF era plain enamel wire, and measured 5.5K, real harsh and tinny sounding. I have two of those and made a true replica of on and did a comparison video, buried in the over 100 videos I've done to date. I really dislike companies that lie and cheat their customers and nobody says anything about that. If you have not already, go watch my four part documentary series called "The Les Paul That Isn't." I show real vintage LP hardware, harness and my replicas, and used a '60 VOS to show what junk they're made of and how to do simple substitution with parts etc. that are way way better than the low bidder Gibson stuff....I could go on and on.....
@@SDPickups And thanks for mentioning the Gibson Pursebuckers, or whatever they are, in the video. I recently became aware of those ridiculous $1000 Gibson pickups and was curious as to what your take might be.
@@DDWyss Its just more Gibson hype. Nothing burgers that come in a kid's lunchbox :-) Some will buy them just to get the toy pink purse lunchbox thingy.
@@SDPickups you don’t know me, if you look on my page, my channel, you will see that I’m actually a guitar player who needs all the help he can get. Out of all the pick up builders I’ve ever seen, yours definitely seem the best. I would be honored to commission you.
It would be nice to believe Gibson’s claims on reverse engineering, but the R8 I bought having fake bumblebees did a lot of damage to their credibility. Would it really hurt them so bad to acknowledge some faults and explain what’s different this time? Without that the real enthusiasts have no inroads. Meanwhile guys such as yourself (and I would say John at throbak) are afloat in an ocean of demonstrable credibility, and specifically the kinds of transparency that reveals enough but retains crucial secrecy. So at the least Gibson have an example to follow in both what and how. My hope is that someday soon the guy at the top decides to follow that example, and really lean into it. That rising tide would lift all boats.
Throbak? He's a follower, not an originator. Way back when, my engineer friend suggested I have the steel parts in original PAF's analyzed in a metals lab, I followed his advice and I did the first ever analyses of the pole screws, keeper bars and slugs at an expensive metallurgical lab. I invited Throbak to join in paying for that work because I couldn't afford the services on my own. It was MY idea, not his. He is not a maker, nor original thinker. When I got the results I immediately bought all the steels in the "nearest modern alloys content" spit out by the lab computer, and I made all of those parts on my lathe and mill within days of the results. He didn't make anything, instead he bought an old coil winder and claimed that IT was the "secret" of vintage PAF tone." There is zero truth that winding machines make "tone." Many players bought into the hype and I pointed out that a machine can't make sound. I built the first prototype set and IT DID NOT WORK. Not at all. I also bought a 1960 PAF that needed a new baseplate, and used that to see how close my own work was getting to. Later, I was contacted by a Ferro-magnetics Senior Alloys Engineer in a large German owned steel mill. He said he would help me for free, to do the real work of decoding the steels of those times. The metallurgy lab's computer just spits out the "nearest equivalent" alloys from minimal testing that doesn't even begin to explain how those materials were made and whats different between the old steel and the modern steels we have now. He did a whole slew of different tests and educated me to what it all meant in terms ONLY of the magnetics and NOT the sound of it all. I had to do the real world work to coorelate certain alloys to how those affect the sound of magnetic coils to alloy CONTENT. I began restoring PAF's for FREE, which gave me first hand access to PAF's from every single year they were made. The sound does NOT come from "steel." Nor magnets, nor magic winding machines. Along side of that work, in which the metallurgist help me for 6 years, I also contacted the largest magnet wire company in the USA, who analyzed a large sampling of vintage magnet wire taken from real PAF's and P90's, and did many different tests on the old wire, which was illuminating why the old wire sounds so great, and that its THE most important material in the old pickups, even Leo Fender's single coils. I acquired a good box full of wire from the 50's and it proved to me that the wire is a huge KEY to the sound of all vintage guitar pickups. It took at least 15 years before I eventually figured it all out, and invented methods and processes that give me the tones I sought for 20 years and more to date. HYPE sells, and people fall for the most ridiculous claims, sadly. I make no claims except that I did the work that nobody else ever did to the depths that I did, and will never do because of the complexity and expense of even trying to follow in my footsteps. Much of what I discovered was thru intuitive lucky hits that proved to be true. I MAKE the majority of the parts I use because there are NO commercial parts out there that are even close. I don't mass produce because it can't be done without tens of thousands of dollars. I don't copy anything others do, either. I've done quite a few videos comparing my replica work to REAL PAF'S, and YOU judge whether my work and methods actually WORK. "Claims, and hype" I don't ever use and many of my videos debunk the ridiculous claims that have no basis in actual facts and physics. If you try to trick guitar players with baseless "magical" stories, those kinds of people lose their reputation because the claims don't match the pickups.
Those "noodles" taste great 😋 Super playing, some of your finest!
Thanks so much! I didn't feel like I was playing very good at all and almost didn't post the video because I thought it was all bad. I'm having more trouble with my hand and not being able to play well because of that, I may have to switch to 8 gauge strings pretty soon. I might do a short video about that switch. Thanks for the nice comment.
You're an inspiration to us all Ser! Never compromise@@SDPickups
@@jacqueslapidieux3182 I never compromise, I never make things up like the others do. All I did was ask questions until I found real answers, that nobody else had a hint of. It was all based in real science, scores of tests in real company laboratories in big companies that educated me and told me exactly what all the materials in vintage PAF's actually WERE based on destructive testing of some materials, and many OTHER things you can't even see until you completely dissect them and record every single measurement of every single part. This is why I laughed my butt off when Gibson claims they "reverse engineered" their thousand dollar Custom Buckers. When a company tries to fool their customers, people lose respect for them. When they lied about their famous fake "bee" capacitors that had cheap 15 cent caps inside a fake plastic shell, it revealed exactly who they really are. You never know what they are really selling to us.
You're a true romantic Dave! Unlike Gibson, who under their new management, have become more commercially driven than ever before for not too much authenticity. I'm so happy people like yourself are around to educate the rest of us@@SDPickups
@@jacqueslapidieux3182 Thanks. Gibson started scamming people around 1970. Guys were buying up 50's originals and driving prices up even then. Their ad campaign came out with "WE ARE BRINGING BACK THE LES PAUL!" So, I bought one with every dime I could save up. What the guitar was, was a PLYWOOD wood sandwich, with crap minibuckers, sounded terrible. I hated that guitar, so I bought some buckers direct from Gibson, hoping they would get the Clapton sound, well it sounded even worse. I got rid of that thing as fast as I could before it became common knowledge that Gibson was deceiving all of us. To this day I still see guys who bought those for a ton of money, claiming they sound better than God, LOL. No they don't. You need a full pedal board to get any kind of tone out of them. They have been deceiving people continuously up to this day. The "Historic" Les Pauls were NOT "historic." Neither were the "True Historics." Murphy Labs? NOPE. And. how many "Slash" guitar models have they sold, LOL. You are right, the new owners are money counters, make up marketing stories that have zero truth and grab the money. If you bought a "muscle car" thats supposed to be a true replica of an original and opened the hood and found a VW motor, thats what Gibson is doing now. As an aside, the ORIGINAL minihumbuckers were first only used on Epiphone guitars, they had PAF decals on the bottom and were 7K and higher, and sound like little PAF's, GREAT PICKUPS. The minis on the LP Deluxe used cheap poly wire instead of the PAF era plain enamel wire, and measured 5.5K, real harsh and tinny sounding. I have two of those and made a true replica of on and did a comparison video, buried in the over 100 videos I've done to date. I really dislike companies that lie and cheat their customers and nobody says anything about that. If you have not already, go watch my four part documentary series called "The Les Paul That Isn't." I show real vintage LP hardware, harness and my replicas, and used a '60 VOS to show what junk they're made of and how to do simple substitution with parts etc. that are way way better than the low bidder Gibson stuff....I could go on and on.....
That pickup sounds amazing!
That wire has a unique quality for sure. Thanks.
@@SDPickups And thanks for mentioning the Gibson Pursebuckers, or whatever they are, in the video. I recently became aware of those ridiculous $1000 Gibson pickups and was curious as to what your take might be.
@@DDWyss Its just more Gibson hype. Nothing burgers that come in a kid's lunchbox :-) Some will buy them just to get the toy pink purse lunchbox thingy.
You are such an inspiration ! Thanks for what you do.
Thanks for watching!
hey dave.....i like when you show us the old stuff......
Its because I AM OLD, LOL.
no in heart i bet....@@SDPickups
Thanks. Yeah, will always be a kid....@@Joe-pb3lx
Possibly similar to polyetherimide enamel. The number 1 indicates one layer of enamel.
Turns out one of the other spools it says "polyurethane." Bottom line. though, is what does it sound like? Great wire...
Круто звук точно винтажный !
It would be better if you reply in English.
You really are a genius on these pups. Could I pay you to build me 2 sets of PAF’s
Maybe.
@@SDPickups you don’t know me, if you look on my page, my channel, you will see that I’m actually a guitar player who needs all the help he can get. Out of all the pick up builders I’ve ever seen, yours definitely seem the best. I would be honored to commission you.
👍
Now, noswire
Can't I order a pickup?
Will send you an email tomorrow friday.
It would be nice to believe Gibson’s claims on reverse engineering, but the R8 I bought having fake bumblebees did a lot of damage to their credibility. Would it really hurt them so bad to acknowledge some faults and explain what’s different this time?
Without that the real enthusiasts have no inroads.
Meanwhile guys such as yourself (and I would say John at throbak) are afloat in an ocean of demonstrable credibility, and specifically the kinds of transparency that reveals enough but retains crucial secrecy.
So at the least Gibson have an example to follow in both what and how. My hope is that someday soon the guy at the top decides to follow that example, and really lean into it. That rising tide would lift all boats.
Throbak? He's a follower, not an originator. Way back when, my engineer friend suggested I have the steel parts in original PAF's analyzed in a metals lab, I followed his advice and I did the first ever analyses of the pole screws, keeper bars and slugs at an expensive metallurgical lab. I invited Throbak to join in paying for that work because I couldn't afford the services on my own. It was MY idea, not his. He is not a maker, nor original thinker. When I got the results I immediately bought all the steels in the "nearest modern alloys content" spit out by the lab computer, and I made all of those parts on my lathe and mill within days of the results. He didn't make anything, instead he bought an old coil winder and claimed that IT was the "secret" of vintage PAF tone." There is zero truth that winding machines make "tone." Many players bought into the hype and I pointed out that a machine can't make sound. I built the first prototype set and IT DID NOT WORK. Not at all. I also bought a 1960 PAF that needed a new baseplate, and used that to see how close my own work was getting to. Later, I was contacted by a Ferro-magnetics Senior Alloys Engineer in a large German owned steel mill. He said he would help me for free, to do the real work of decoding the steels of those times. The metallurgy lab's computer just spits out the "nearest equivalent" alloys from minimal testing that doesn't even begin to explain how those materials were made and whats different between the old steel and the modern steels we have now. He did a whole slew of different tests and educated me to what it all meant in terms ONLY of the magnetics and NOT the sound of it all. I had to do the real world work to coorelate certain alloys to how those affect the sound of magnetic coils to alloy CONTENT. I began restoring PAF's for FREE, which gave me first hand access to PAF's from every single year they were made. The sound does NOT come from "steel." Nor magnets, nor magic winding machines. Along side of that work, in which the metallurgist help me for 6 years, I also contacted the largest magnet wire company in the USA, who analyzed a large sampling of vintage magnet wire taken from real PAF's and P90's, and did many different tests on the old wire, which was illuminating why the old wire sounds so great, and that its THE most important material in the old pickups, even Leo Fender's single coils. I acquired a good box full of wire from the 50's and it proved to me that the wire is a huge KEY to the sound of all vintage guitar pickups. It took at least 15 years before I eventually figured it all out, and invented methods and processes that give me the tones I sought for 20 years and more to date. HYPE sells, and people fall for the most ridiculous claims, sadly. I make no claims except that I did the work that nobody else ever did to the depths that I did, and will never do because of the complexity and expense of even trying to follow in my footsteps. Much of what I discovered was thru intuitive lucky hits that proved to be true. I MAKE the majority of the parts I use because there are NO commercial parts out there that are even close. I don't mass produce because it can't be done without tens of thousands of dollars. I don't copy anything others do, either. I've done quite a few videos comparing my replica work to REAL PAF'S, and YOU judge whether my work and methods actually WORK. "Claims, and hype" I don't ever use and many of my videos debunk the ridiculous claims that have no basis in actual facts and physics. If you try to trick guitar players with baseless "magical" stories, those kinds of people lose their reputation because the claims don't match the pickups.
Gibson just won't do it. They are a corporation and money is their game, NOT guitars.