sounds fantastic for a few nails and some old transformer copper windings, very well done! the winding and winding and winding and winding eventually paid off 🙂
Might be the best pickup makin vid I ever seen! Well done mate👍🏻 It sounded real good also, shows us we don't have to look up to fancy expensive pickup makin firms that have a so called "name". You're a hero.
Thank you so much. This was the start of many experiments that has lead to me making some pretty awesome neodymium pickups. If you would like to hear one of them I got a nice result from a p90/jazzmaster hybrid. Here is the video: th-cam.com/video/RQaMo6WES4U/w-d-xo.html Also feel free to check out the rest of my recent videos I also built a split single z-coil style humbucker that has become a popular design as of late. As well as a neodymium experiment using the same pickup I built in this video. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and leave such a kind and inspiring comment.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such an inspiring comment. When I found out how simple a pickup actually was I was flabbergasted. Its like a custom wind p90 costs WHAT? oh, now that aint right. Thanks again for the viewership I apologize for the delayed comment I intent to stay more active in the future.
That's the most fun I've ever had watching a pickup winding video. Congratulations on showing us that a lot of what people hype about pickups is smoke and mirrors.
I'm the biggest fan of repurposed DIY. I find that the ideas for reusing existing items as components for other items comes from being poor and not getting many gifts as a kid. Couple that with having a grandpa that could make snow out of charcoal and you start to see the potential in just about anything
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such a cool comment Nicholas. I agree fully, I grew up poor and I was into music and I spent a lot of time like sooo many hours stuck at the auto restoration shop my parents ran and I would just try to take stuff apart and wire up tons of old speakers out of cars to an old 8 track player and fiddle with wires and take the little motors out of toy cars and try to build stuff. So eventually I figured out if I wanted to have stuff I couldn't afford Id just have to cobble it together somehow like I used to do with all that stuff at the shop. The internet has been the greatest tool in this whole thing so I decided to try to show everyone else that they can do the same thing and maybe it'll help someone out and it gives me some pennies pay for more junk to hack up LOL
@@heavymetalATC The day one realizes the true power of DIY, it opens up an entire world of possibilities. Not to mention the empowering feeling it leaves you with. DIY FOREVER!!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a comment Freqrose Music. I'm so glad the video could help you out. There are other pickup builds on the channel with a lot more professional outcome. The p90 build is a really good one. Thanks again.
Thank you so much. I was poor growing up but I learned fast I could have most of what I wanted if I just went junk hunting and took it out of old devices. I love to teach others to think the same way. Now that $ is better it has served me well in life to have the ability to build and repair the things I need.
super cool - i went down a similar road when i made the paper clip motor . i used a drill .i broke my wire of course a few times and ultimately set it up with 6 inches of spare wire coiled around the spin shaft and then maskin taped . that ended up working well for me . the paperclip motor was one that killed me the first few times but eventually i got it and man that felt good .
Well Dang, I commented on this few days ago whenever I hearted it... but its not here. This is the 2nd time that's happened and both were comments to you? I just said that your dedication to finish art and projects is pretty legend levels or some similar statement and I think I watched that video before a few years back? and I bet the mood around your house was pretty thick those first few times it didn't work.
The tone from your pickup is just awesome. You nailed it :-). The copper tone strip was also awesome. The tone from your preamp - you sure your fingers arent the pickups :-)
Great video But you didn’t mention where to install the magnets ? Where can I get the coil from ? What gage is the coil ? How many rounds should we round the coil ? Thank again
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment Emmanuel. I'm so happy to hear that you are gonna do some experiments! Yes this pickup was only wound about 1/4 as much as it really should have been. So do A LOT of winding. Let me know how it goes and if you have any problems or further questions feel free to drop a comment. The only stupid question is the one that isn't asked.
Fucking absolute legend! Basically a P90 that you can position it on the the fly. Well done. For the record, I enjoyed watching the winding process and felt terrible for you when the wire broke.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment Fox. Yes if you can get to both ends of the coil from a shaver or a choke coil from an amp abny similar coil and put a magnet on it and some ferrous metal to use as a pole or blade it will def. work as a pickup. The magnet type will shape the sound as well as what you use as the pole or blade. I have been using neo magnets lately and man are they loud and clear and great bass response. In fact I just got the idea of using both winds in a wall wart (ac adapter) transformer to make a humbucker or noiseless pickup. I dont know if that would work or if the transformer body would cancel the signal but, its worth a test. I am going to put that in my notes and if/when I make a video about it I will give you a shout-out for inspiring the idea. Thanks again Fox best of luck if you have any questions feel free to drop a comment and if you get a pickup going let me know how you did it and how it works. I love this stuff.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such a kind comment Chris. I appreciate your viewership and I'm glad you get the unorthodox vibe and attitude of the channel. Thanks again bro.
Splendid! I've been working on building my 'rummage pickups' (for a mostly-rummaged guitar) and having trouble getting the pole holes lined up straight. Not gonna stress it quite as much now :) Will be potting them though.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such a funny comment. Made my day SMarkelet. I don't always say hold my beer but when I do.. Some carazy Sh*t is about to go down. HAhaha
Oh no man, thank you! I love your videos. Great ideas, funny delivery, and a stick it to the man attitude that I really love. I hope you're doing well, I know the videos stopped cause you weren't, but some of your comments made it sound like you were doing better, so I really hope that's been a continued positive climb.
Thanks for taking the time to to watch and leave such kind words Anthony. I hope my videos can inspire or help you in some way thats what its all about.
That's the coolest dadgum thing I've seen since all those moonshine making videos I saw. Well, actually, I only saw those yesterday and today, but that don't change how I feel. 🤘😈 Thanks for this; now I have something cool to do that won't blow the house up.
I think it stands to reason that the same kinda person that would make their own guitar pickups just may also make their own corn liquor or sugar liquor, pop-skull, who shot sally, moonshine etc. Never say "white liquor" Thats what the Feds say LOL Either way, well basically you are right one can blow you up and the other just blows up amps. Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such an entertaining colorful comment. I hope you do try it. If you have any issues just let me know. It may take me a month to respond as I'm always busy building things or sitting on my lazy @ss. I'll get back to you eventually.
Thanks again BOP. good info, yeah I know that I can rejoin it nowdays may have known then? but I was like F-this... it should've gotten 5x that much wire. I just said Naw.
Thank you so much Tamer. I do apologize for my late response and recent lack of activity on the channel I took a break from YT but I'm back with better gear and more projects and I will try to make higher quality content more regularly in the future. Thanks again for watching the video and leaving kind words of encouragement.
It really was... As much as I did wind it I was planning on winding it a lot more but the wire broke. I would say it was less that 1000 winds and a telecaster bridge pickup can have about 9000. Thanks again Haroon.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Bender. I'll try to remember this and if I ever start messing with that pickup again. I'll try it with a transformer.
No this should be classic P90 type so magnet is under the metal bars that goes to the strings. Enought magnetic force for efective induction. It’s not perfect pickup since it’s really weak for what it should be. But sounds OK.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave feedback Jose. As well as showing a genuine interest. With the terminals I just put 2 small screws in the back and wrapped the magnet wire around them and soldered it on to them. One end of the coil to each. Then I soldered the lead wires to them. The wire coming from the outside of the coil will be the negative lead wire or ground. but it will still work if connected backwards it will just hum a bit more. I apologize for not having a better shot of it in the video or explaining it better. I had no Idea that video or this channel would do this well. I plan on making the videos clearer and more detailed in the future I have recently acquired much better video equipment. I hope this helps in some way. Thanks again Jose.
And wind it… and wind it… and wind it… wind it again… wind it one more time… maybe wind it just once more to be sure… and wind it Funny asf bro, and love the video. I’ll be trying to make one of my own 💪🏽
Thank you for watching and taking the time to write this comical comment Kenny. Let me know how it goes and yes wind it like 5x as much as you think it needs try to over fill it and you will get a much better result.
Yes that pickup really needed about 5x times that much wire atleast but luckily I was just able to turn up the amp loud enough that it was a decent volume. It wasnt noisy with all that gain either because it was only 52 ohms away from being shunted to dead ground... Hahaha!
I use a small speaker magnet and made my pickup with it. It had the following problems. It sounded to low , It was refusing to work in a bass amplifier Then stopped working . I want to ask can my coil not be the problem or magnet. I didn't take time to coil it in order can it be a problem too.!!!
I would just check the solder points the coil can be "scattered" and it will be fine that is actually a very desirable quality in high end pickups but if it worked enough to make sound at first then stopped you just lost connection somehow either a bad solder joint or a broken coil wire. To make it louder and make it work with the bass amp you will need a bigger coil or a stronger magnet, both would be good the higher the resistance "length of coil wire" and the stronger the magnet the louder it will be.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment aidan. The wires are called crocodile or alligator clip test leads. they sell them at harbor freight or you can get them in bundles on amazon for pretty cheap . To hook the pickup to the cord you must go from one pickup lead to the tip of the cable and one lead to the base of the cord or the metal part that you touch to plug it in. and you generally want the lead coming from the outside of the coil to go to the base of the cable.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment and its awesome to hear that you tried the experiment. I really hope you stuck with it or tried again. I would think that either the wire had gotten a short in it somehow or maybe the pickup was under wound so It may have benefited with a boost pedal or the distortion setting of an amplifier. I hope you got it working in the end and if not just try again, you can do it... wind it 5x more than you think it needs and use a strong magnet and crank the amp wayyy up.
Will this work with a Classical guitar? Building one at college next year! Any chance, if not, you could show how to make a classical (nylon string) pickup?
Thanks for watching Wallace Sessions. NO unfortunately this will not work for a nylon string guitar. Its awesome that you are building one. You will need a piezo element to pick up the vibrations directly. They can be bought online or found in talking greeting cards and some small toys. They are also sometimes used as the voice coil of cheap tweeters.
I made two of those and they are so excellent thanks! By the way, do you know how to make a pick up for a nylon string guitar? I made one for my pezio but don’t like the sound!✌️👍
Mindful you can't use a electromagnetic pickup with nylon strings need a microphone kind of pickup so you have to have a diaphragm in order to pick up the acoustic sound waves. What I did when I was a youngster years ago was I used speakers. a speaker is just a reverse coil so if you put your lead wires to the speaker it becomes a microphone I used to run that to my amplifiers so maybe you can get a small speaker and put it inside your acoustic guitar nylon strings in them it should work I don't know what the response would be quality wise. you can give it a try
Thank you both for watching and taking the time to write comments Yes Mandala, Tom is correct you cannot use a magnetic pickup on a nylon stringed instrument also using a speaker is a very good suggestion, their are also many different types of piezo element their are small ones and big ones and ones that are like a strip and ones that are made into the bridge saddle you may experiment with different types and different placement of them like under the bridge or against the I beam or even against the underside of the top in different locations or even wire 2 in or out of phase or even in series like a piezo "humbucker" If you listen to Willie Nelson and his guitar Trigger that is a piezo bridge on a nylon stringed guitar and it sounds very good. A preamp with eq would also go a long way in getting the sound you want.
Usually you connect the outside end of the coil to ground to prevent hum... but, this shouldn't stop it from working either way. The first thing I would check is the solder points on the coil wires and if they look good or a re-solder doesn't change anything. I would check "continuity" or in english: if the coil is broken in side and not continuous you can do this with a multi-meter as you saw me do in the video it should have some amount of resistance but if it checks at zero then it is "open" or disconnected. Another thing may be that it just doesnt have enough winds to be loud enough to hear. The pickup in the video was very weak at only about 1000 winds so I had to crank the gain on the amp to 10. A production pickup like a p90 or tele/strat may have between 5000-9000 winds. More winds = louder, more magnet = louder a pickup with a 2 neodymium bar magnets and 13000 winds would be an insane loud distortion monster. I hope that helps if not dont give up. try it again or a few times, you will get one to work. Thank you for your time and comment.
Saya sangat tertarik dengan apa yang anda buat,saya berencana membuatnya untuk gitar akustik saya,bisakah anda berbagi pengetahuan ini kepada saya tentang jumlah lilitan kawat dan ukuran kawatnya....Terimakasih atas perhatianya😍👍
Ini dibuat dengan kawat yang sangat kecil dari gulungan alat cukur rambut. 42 gauge kawat poliuretan akan jauh lebih baik. Saya juga tidak memasang cukup kabel pada pickup di video. Jumlah kawat yang lebih baik adalah 5000 putaran. Terima kasih telah menonton, saya menghargai waktu yang Anda luangkan untuk menulis komentar.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Nick. Yeah, screws would work just fine as long as a magnet will stick to them they are made of the right stuff. Good luck brother let me know how it goes.
@@heavymetalATC Yeah, today I tried to make a pickup today, because i prefer a electric over acoustic guitar, but i only have an acoustic. I took thin copper wire out of a transformer from a broken walmart clock, and i kept winding, and winding, and winding, but eventually it broke like yours did. I stopped there and connected it with some screws for a terminal, but unfortunately i dont know why, but i tested it with a multimeter and it was not conductive at all. No beeps. also didnt get anything from the resistance setting. I eventually tried, and I noticed it was making 0.030-80 volts, but it didnt increase when i strummed. I did use neodynium magnets since i saw your video on how the myths for them are false, so i did. Will try and get some actual 40 gauge wire meant for pickups soon. Hopefully it works, because i prefer electric, not acoustic. Also, how do i test if it makes and sound if i do not have an amp?
@@nicksloan9323 Its awesome to hear you are experimenting NIck. It sucks that the first one didnt work out for you but I think if you keep at it you will definitely end up with a working pickup. If you have a stereo with an rca input you could try to check the pickup on that or also hooking it to the microphone input on a computer but really you need some kind of high gain device especially with a homemade pickup in case it is weak, maybe you can find one of those really small battery powered amps somewhere for cheap or you could look into converting a battery powered radio or walky talky etc.
@@heavymetalATC Yeah, I did try some of those, but I decided it would be better to just buy a acoustic pickup and headphone amp. It would also be cheaper and more reliable, but it was fun to try and do it myself
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such a kind comment Mauricio. I have posted some more advanced pickup building videos in the last year still made using cheap and salvaged items. I hope you can find those useful and thanks again.
@@heavymetalATC Hey you're welcome! Your ideas are really quite useful especially for people looking to make their own salvage electric guitars with their own unique sounds. The pickup was in my opinion one of the hardest pieces of the puzzle!
Great video! I am hoping to make one! Do you have to attach the magnets? Or did you magnetize the nails? I'm going to thumbs up and subscribe to support you!
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such a kind comment Jolox. the magnet needs to stay on the nails, it will stick on its own but it may rattle and cause noise so it is best to glue it or secure it with tape or something similar.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave this awesome well thought out comment Murrrr. Yes it is similar in a way it also has a very small alternating current but it is produced in a different way. A piezo uses a crystal being smashed or pressed on to release electricity a pickup uses a magnet and wire to create electricity from the changes in a magnetic field. kind of like a generator or car alternator. It needs a metal object like the string to produce energy as where a peizo just needs vibration so it can work on a plastic string.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment Gino. The crazy part is it really wasn't nearly as much winding as I wanted. The magnet wire broke and I didn't feel like trying to solder that baby hair size stuff back together. Most pickups have thousands of winds. I think telecaster bridge pickup has around 9000. I redeemed myself though for the next pickup vids I used a sewing machine to wind and got them filled up. Thanks again.
Buen dia Se puede hacer una pastilla para eléctrica de doble bobina usando alambre mas grueso Aca no se puede conseguir el calibre #42 Saludos y bendiciones
Gracias por mirar y tomarse el tiempo para comentar. Sí, en realidad utilicé los bobinados de una bobina tomada de una afeitadora de pelo rota, pero una bobina mucho más grande de alambre más grueso es definitivamente una mejor pastilla, aunque esto demuestra que puedes usar casi todo lo que encuentres en los montones de basura para construir lo que necesites si empiezas a tratar de pegar cosas al azar. obviamente crecí muy pobre para aprender estas habilidades, ahora me pagan por demostrarlo.
Why are you yelling at me I'm sensitive❤❤❤ I like the part when you drill the hole One sec, how many feet of wire was that Hey, you should have took a box fan, duct taped that sucker down on the spinny ma joogle then used a spool and just guide that bad boy on in... Anywho❤❤❤❤ Cool shit I'm a broke ass right now so this helps I'm subbin
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment S-U_Meg. Yeah I was not used to trying to do youtube in any serious capacity a this time so yeah... kinda sounds like yelling to me too. Hahaha ok, soo I have no idea how much wire I used but it wasnt even 20% as much as I should have used.. Use as much wire as will fit on there 1)to get the most chance of loud strong volume 2) If you get a fault in the wire somewhere or if the first one dont work? you can use all that extra wire to do a repair or wind another sometimes they work great first try sometimes its a MF? Later on I started using a sewing machine to wind, I have yet to build a legit winder but I do have the parts. Thanks for the sub, I was absent on the channel for a long while but I was building up stuff to hit it with gusto on the way back, I got a full guitar shop in action now. I built lost more much better pickups over the course of the channel so check the back catalog this one is a good one for example: wooden p90 for an actual guitar build > th-cam.com/video/RQaMo6WES4U/w-d-xo.html Thanks again bro I hope you find the info on the channel helpful.
Thank you so much Andrew, I may have forgotten to wind it... The crazy part is this was only wound about 1/10th as much as it should have been really. Thanks again bro.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment Glynn. I appreciate the interest in my channel brother. I got most everything caught up around the house and I will be back to making videos again soon.
Go for it Salem! It may take a bit of fiddling or a few tries to get a really good one but, its not too hard at all. Wind it as much as you can. The more winds of wire you use the stronger and louder it will be. Also stronger magnets like neodymium will make it work better as well.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such a clever comment Amaan. I try to be funny in my videos to keep it from being boring but alot of the time the comments just keep me rolling... And yes it was a deal to do and I didnt wind it nearly as much as I wanted since the wire broke. So in the later pickup videos I used a sewing machine to wind them up to 7-8 thousand and get a good clear barky sound. Thanks again for the funny feedback. This kinda stuff really makes my day better.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a humorous comment out of order... Oh and then when you think its wound enough do that much 4 times.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Richard. This video sent me on a journey that I will be on for the rest of my life at this point I have done some pretty crazy things with pickups and ill do plenty more before I'm done.
Hahaha 🤣 yeah, I think mostly it's just paying the people that have done all the research and experience to make perfect tones on que consistently BUT... We can all 100% wind our own pickups and it almost always turns out that hand winding sound clearer and better than most store bought stuff due to scatter and less coupling.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment Haroon. I think I might just record things so I can say I was talking to the camera and not myself because I'm gonna do it any way LOL
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave a kind comment Soham, Yeah bro you gotta do something to break up the technical mumbo jumbo LOL
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a kind and caring comment Believer. I appreciate your sentiment and concern. I would hope that my works and actions show my true intention to spread love and knowledge to others. I have the faith that my creator will guide me to the right path and open the doors that need to be opened at the time they should be opened. God Bless you Sir. I love the Templar Knight Avatar.
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sounds fantastic for a few nails and some old transformer copper windings, very well done! the winding and winding and winding and winding eventually paid off 🙂
Might be the best pickup makin vid I ever seen! Well done mate👍🏻 It sounded real good also, shows us we don't have to look up to fancy expensive pickup makin firms that have a so called "name". You're a hero.
Thank you so much. This was the start of many experiments that has lead to me making some pretty awesome neodymium pickups. If you would like to hear one of them I got a nice result from a p90/jazzmaster hybrid. Here is the video: th-cam.com/video/RQaMo6WES4U/w-d-xo.html Also feel free to check out the rest of my recent videos I also built a split single z-coil style humbucker that has become a popular design as of late. As well as a neodymium experiment using the same pickup I built in this video. Thanks again for taking the time to watch and leave such a kind and inspiring comment.
Me before: YOU CAN'T MAKE A PICKUP FROM HOUSEHOLD STUFF!
Me after: THAT MIGHT JUST BE THE BEST ACOUSTIC PICKUP I'VE EVER HEARD!!!
Great job.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such an inspiring comment. When I found out how simple a pickup actually was I was flabbergasted. Its like a custom wind p90 costs WHAT? oh, now that aint right. Thanks again for the viewership I apologize for the delayed comment I intent to stay more active in the future.
You wound that totaly by hand? Mad-lad. Les Paul and Leo Fender are looking at you from heaven and smiling. Cheers mate.
That's the most fun I've ever had watching a pickup winding video. Congratulations on showing us that a lot of what people hype about pickups is smoke and mirrors.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to write such a kind and supportive comment David. I'm so glad you found it entertaining.
The long and winding coil
Song title right there
And winding
that leads you to your solder
here comes the man.... 🙄🤔
Will never dissappear, i've seen that coil before
I wonder how well it would work with old hard drive magnets because those things are insanely powerful.
I'm the biggest fan of repurposed DIY. I find that the ideas for reusing existing items as components for other items comes from being poor and not getting many gifts as a kid. Couple that with having a grandpa that could make snow out of charcoal and you start to see the potential in just about anything
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such a cool comment Nicholas. I agree fully, I grew up poor and I was into music and I spent a lot of time like sooo many hours stuck at the auto restoration shop my parents ran and I would just try to take stuff apart and wire up tons of old speakers out of cars to an old 8 track player and fiddle with wires and take the little motors out of toy cars and try to build stuff. So eventually I figured out if I wanted to have stuff I couldn't afford Id just have to cobble it together somehow like I used to do with all that stuff at the shop. The internet has been the greatest tool in this whole thing so I decided to try to show everyone else that they can do the same thing and maybe it'll help someone out and it gives me some pennies pay for more junk to hack up LOL
@@heavymetalATC The day one realizes the true power of DIY, it opens up an entire world of possibilities. Not to mention the empowering feeling it leaves you with. DIY FOREVER!!
holy crap, this is a great video! i always wanted to luthier myself a guitar at home, and now i know how i'll make my pickups!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a comment Freqrose Music. I'm so glad the video could help you out. There are other pickup builds on the channel with a lot more professional outcome. The p90 build is a really good one. Thanks again.
Cool “make it happen” attitude, surprisingly good result, really decent playin. 👍
Thank you so much. I was poor growing up but I learned fast I could have most of what I wanted if I just went junk hunting and took it out of old devices. I love to teach others to think the same way. Now that $ is better it has served me well in life to have the ability to build and repair the things I need.
@@heavymetalATCThanks for the idea! Btw what was the music at the very end of the video?
That neck pickup tone though 😍😍😍 building one of these for my archtop next year be sure to give you a shout out!
Awesome bro, Let me know how it turns out and be sure to put plenty of winds on it, this one didn't have nearly enough it was very low output.
If you have one, an electric drill can speed up the winding quite a bit
dammit..., you just enlighten me, that is the coolest diy acoustic pickup i ever seen, thanks for sharing man..., god bless you
super cool - i went down a similar road when i made the paper clip motor . i used a drill .i broke my wire of course a few times and ultimately set it up with 6 inches of spare wire coiled around the spin shaft and then maskin taped . that ended up working well for me . the paperclip motor was one that killed me the first few times but eventually i got it and man that felt good .
Well Dang, I commented on this few days ago whenever I hearted it... but its not here. This is the 2nd time that's happened and both were comments to you? I just said that your dedication to finish art and projects is pretty legend levels or some similar statement and I think I watched that video before a few years back? and I bet the mood around your house was pretty thick those first few times it didn't work.
The tone from your pickup is just awesome. You nailed it :-). The copper tone strip was also awesome. The tone from your preamp - you sure your fingers arent the pickups :-)
hahaha! I wish it was my hands Id start buying cheap guitars demo them and sell um. LOL
Great video
But you didn’t mention where to install the magnets ?
Where can I get the coil from ?
What gage is the coil ?
How many rounds should we round the coil ?
Thank again
And winding...and winding..I'm sorry did I mention winding.??😂
I love this video..I'm trying it
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment Emmanuel. I'm so happy to hear that you are gonna do some experiments! Yes this pickup was only wound about 1/4 as much as it really should have been. So do A LOT of winding. Let me know how it goes and if you have any problems or further questions feel free to drop a comment. The only stupid question is the one that isn't asked.
@@heavymetalATC I'll definitely let you know how it goes when I finish mine.. Thanks a lot
Fucking absolute legend! Basically a P90 that you can position it on the the fly. Well done. For the record, I enjoyed watching the winding process and felt terrible for you when the wire broke.
Good stuff, man. I'm thinking about making a homemade pickup for a diddley bow, so maybe I can just use a coil as is.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment Fox. Yes if you can get to both ends of the coil from a shaver or a choke coil from an amp abny similar coil and put a magnet on it and some ferrous metal to use as a pole or blade it will def. work as a pickup. The magnet type will shape the sound as well as what you use as the pole or blade. I have been using neo magnets lately and man are they loud and clear and great bass response.
In fact I just got the idea of using both winds in a wall wart (ac adapter) transformer to make a humbucker or noiseless pickup. I dont know if that would work or if the transformer body would cancel the signal but, its worth a test. I am going to put that in my notes and if/when I make a video about it I will give you a shout-out for inspiring the idea.
Thanks again Fox best of luck if you have any questions feel free to drop a comment and if you get a pickup going let me know how you did it and how it works. I love this stuff.
I absolutely love this video. New subscriber here, keep doing your thing
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such a kind comment Chris. I appreciate your viewership and I'm glad you get the unorthodox vibe and attitude of the channel. Thanks again bro.
Splendid! I've been working on building my 'rummage pickups' (for a mostly-rummaged guitar) and having trouble getting the pole holes lined up straight. Not gonna stress it quite as much now :) Will be potting them though.
Noiice
Awesome dude! thank you for watching and taking the time to comment yeah this was a dont give a F kind of build, i miss these.
You: Here's a ruler.
Me: To measure stuff.
You: Hold my beer.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such a funny comment. Made my day SMarkelet. I don't always say hold my beer but when I do.. Some carazy Sh*t is about to go down. HAhaha
Oh no man, thank you! I love your videos. Great ideas, funny delivery, and a stick it to the man attitude that I really love.
I hope you're doing well, I know the videos stopped cause you weren't, but some of your comments made it sound like you were doing better, so I really hope that's been a continued positive climb.
one of the best I've seen
Thanks for taking the time to to watch and leave such kind words Anthony. I hope my videos can inspire or help you in some way thats what its all about.
This is so amazing though I'm not able to see clearly. Then what types of magnets are you supposed to use sir?
Thank you for such simple guidance with diy pickups 👍
That's the coolest dadgum thing I've seen since all those moonshine making videos I saw. Well, actually, I only saw those yesterday and today, but that don't change how I feel. 🤘😈 Thanks for this; now I have something cool to do that won't blow the house up.
I think it stands to reason that the same kinda person that would make their own guitar pickups just may also make their own corn liquor or sugar liquor, pop-skull, who shot sally, moonshine etc. Never say "white liquor" Thats what the Feds say LOL Either way, well basically you are right one can blow you up and the other just blows up amps. Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such an entertaining colorful comment. I hope you do try it. If you have any issues just let me know. It may take me a month to respond as I'm always busy building things or sitting on my lazy @ss. I'll get back to you eventually.
You can clean the shielding off the end of the broken wire with nail polish remover, and join the broken ends with some solder
Thanks again BOP. good info, yeah I know that I can rejoin it nowdays may have known then? but I was like F-this... it should've gotten 5x that much wire. I just said Naw.
nice sounding pickup!
Thanks Rich. This is the one that started the sickness. 🤣👌
I love your videos man.
Keep it up 🎸
Thank you so much Tamer. I do apologize for my late response and recent lack of activity on the channel I took a break from YT but I'm back with better gear and more projects and I will try to make higher quality content more regularly in the future. Thanks again for watching the video and leaving kind words of encouragement.
sounds Awesome bro. Congratulations !!!
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such a kind comment Oswald. I truly appreciate the complement.
But... Do I have to make some winding?
It's a weak pickup but it's a pickup.
It really was... As much as I did wind it I was planning on winding it a lot more but the wire broke. I would say it was less that 1000 winds and a telecaster bridge pickup can have about 9000. Thanks again Haroon.
Why didn't you installed the nail into the driller, so you could motor wind it!
Maybe put a step-up transformer after the pickup for more output?
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Bender. I'll try to remember this and if I ever start messing with that pickup again. I'll try it with a transformer.
Is there also Magnet around coil ?
No this should be classic P90 type so magnet is under the metal bars that goes to the strings. Enought magnetic force for efective induction. It’s not perfect pickup since it’s really weak for what it should be. But sounds OK.
Nice! gettin' it done
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment ECG. I am glad you liked this DIY pickup tomfoolery Hahahaha!
Nice idea when you wrap around the wire piece with the nales I woul apreciate if I can see the terminal thank you...
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave feedback Jose. As well as showing a genuine interest. With the terminals I just put 2 small screws in the back and wrapped the magnet wire around them and soldered it on to them. One end of the coil to each. Then I soldered the lead wires to them. The wire coming from the outside of the coil will be the negative lead wire or ground. but it will still work if connected backwards it will just hum a bit more. I apologize for not having a better shot of it in the video or explaining it better. I had no Idea that video or this channel would do this well. I plan on making the videos clearer and more detailed in the future I have recently acquired much better video equipment. I hope this helps in some way. Thanks again Jose.
you are awesome, great job!
Can I connect this pickup with my laptop in my DAW with a headphone jack?
oh yeah as long as you have the gain to bring it up to line level, its a very quiet pickup.
And wind it… and wind it… and wind it… wind it again… wind it one more time… maybe wind it just once more to be sure… and wind it
Funny asf bro, and love the video. I’ll be trying to make one of my own 💪🏽
Thank you for watching and taking the time to write this comical comment Kenny. Let me know how it goes and yes wind it like 5x as much as you think it needs try to over fill it and you will get a much better result.
Berry cool, broski!
Tanks too you for vatching von tinklesez.
@@heavymetalATC tee hee
Being 52 ohms, instead of 5-10k of a regular pickup, Did u use a " regular" pre amp, or ? . I want to build a diy guitar just for the fun of it.
Yes that pickup really needed about 5x times that much wire atleast but luckily I was just able to turn up the amp loud enough that it was a decent volume. It wasnt noisy with all that gain either because it was only 52 ohms away from being shunted to dead ground... Hahaha!
Hello! What's a shaver coil?
In an electric hair shaver, you can find one of those I believe
brilliant, just brilliant
and windingggg
Eric Crawfrd lol and more winding... Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and leave a comment.
I use a small speaker magnet and made my pickup with it.
It had the following problems.
It sounded to low ,
It was refusing to work in a bass amplifier
Then stopped working .
I want to ask can my coil not be the problem or magnet.
I didn't take time to coil it in order can it be a problem too.!!!
I would just check the solder points the coil can be "scattered" and it will be fine that is actually a very desirable quality in high end pickups but if it worked enough to make sound at first then stopped you just lost connection somehow either a bad solder joint or a broken coil wire. To make it louder and make it work with the bass amp you will need a bigger coil or a stronger magnet, both would be good the higher the resistance "length of coil wire" and the stronger the magnet the louder it will be.
Awesome video! Just wondering, how did you connect the pickup to the guitar cable? And where can I find the green and white wires that you used? 👍
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment aidan. The wires are called crocodile or alligator clip test leads. they sell them at harbor freight or you can get them in bundles on amazon for pretty cheap . To hook the pickup to the cord you must go from one pickup lead to the tip of the cable and one lead to the base of the cord or the metal part that you touch to plug it in. and you generally want the lead coming from the outside of the coil to go to the base of the cable.
is it worth making? i need something for science fair
Bruh he slapped it together in probs an hour most I’d just go for it!
#facts
Very educational and entertaining.
Thank you so much Brian. I appreciate your time and thank you for leaving feedback.
Next time im out partying ill tell girls i can to pickups, and use it as my pickup line.
Awesome, thank you…
Thanks for watching and taking the time to write a comment 6 of 5. I am glad you enjoy the content.
@@heavymetalATC You made it simple instead of that vudu black magic everyone drops on you.
Really cool video! Thinking about making one myself for a school project, how exactly did you attach the wire from the pickup to the amp cord?
He used alligator clips on wires, commonly known as jumpers. Clip one to the tip of the instrument cable and one to the shaft.
I followed all this but my pickup only hears the tapping on it but nothing when my steel strings are in front of it
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment and its awesome to hear that you tried the experiment. I really hope you stuck with it or tried again. I would think that either the wire had gotten a short in it somehow or maybe the pickup was under wound so It may have benefited with a boost pedal or the distortion setting of an amplifier. I hope you got it working in the end and if not just try again, you can do it... wind it 5x more than you think it needs and use a strong magnet and crank the amp wayyy up.
wow man, amaizzzzzing.......
Thank you for your time Badhon, I also appreciate the kind words.
Kool video
thank you Rich.
Will this work with a Classical guitar? Building one at college next year! Any chance, if not, you could show how to make a classical (nylon string) pickup?
Thanks for watching Wallace Sessions. NO unfortunately this will not work for a nylon string guitar. Its awesome that you are building one. You will need a piezo element to pick up the vibrations directly. They can be bought online or found in talking greeting cards and some small toys. They are also sometimes used as the voice coil of cheap tweeters.
@@heavymetalATC interesting 🤔
@@heavymetalATC can you do a video about it with no battery
I made two of those and they are so excellent thanks! By the way, do you know how to make a pick up for a nylon string guitar? I made one for my pezio but don’t like the sound!✌️👍
Mindful you can't use a electromagnetic pickup with nylon strings need a microphone kind of pickup so you have to have a diaphragm in order to pick up the acoustic sound waves. What I did when I was a youngster years ago was I used speakers. a speaker is just a reverse coil so if you put your lead wires to the speaker it becomes a microphone I used to run that to my amplifiers so maybe you can get a small speaker and put it inside your acoustic guitar nylon strings in them it should work I don't know what the response would be quality wise. you can give it a try
Thank you both for watching and taking the time to write comments Yes Mandala, Tom is correct you cannot use a magnetic pickup on a nylon stringed instrument also using a speaker is a very good suggestion, their are also many different types of piezo element their are small ones and big ones and ones that are like a strip and ones that are made into the bridge saddle you may experiment with different types and different placement of them like under the bridge or against the I beam or even against the underside of the top in different locations or even wire 2 in or out of phase or even in series like a piezo "humbucker" If you listen to Willie Nelson and his guitar Trigger that is a piezo bridge on a nylon stringed guitar and it sounds very good. A preamp with eq would also go a long way in getting the sound you want.
Do you connect the start of the coil or end of the coil to the hot lead of the jack? Mine won’t work, thanks!
Usually you connect the outside end of the coil to ground to prevent hum... but, this shouldn't stop it from working either way. The first thing I would check is the solder points on the coil wires and if they look good or a re-solder doesn't change anything. I would check "continuity" or in english: if the coil is broken in side and not continuous you can do this with a multi-meter as you saw me do in the video it should have some amount of resistance but if it checks at zero then it is "open" or disconnected. Another thing may be that it just doesnt have enough winds to be loud enough to hear. The pickup in the video was very weak at only about 1000 winds so I had to crank the gain on the amp to 10. A production pickup like a p90 or tele/strat may have between 5000-9000 winds. More winds = louder, more magnet = louder a pickup with a 2 neodymium bar magnets and 13000 winds would be an insane loud distortion monster. I hope that helps if not dont give up. try it again or a few times, you will get one to work. Thank you for your time and comment.
heavymetalATC I’ll take another look and keep this all in mind, thanks for the help!
Saya sangat tertarik dengan apa yang anda buat,saya berencana membuatnya untuk gitar akustik saya,bisakah anda berbagi pengetahuan ini kepada saya tentang jumlah lilitan kawat dan ukuran kawatnya....Terimakasih atas perhatianya😍👍
Ini dibuat dengan kawat yang sangat kecil dari gulungan alat cukur rambut. 42 gauge kawat poliuretan akan jauh lebih baik. Saya juga tidak memasang cukup kabel pada pickup di video. Jumlah kawat yang lebih baik adalah 5000 putaran. Terima kasih telah menonton, saya menghargai waktu yang Anda luangkan untuk menulis komentar.
Did you do any winding?
I'm planning on making myself one of these, just to be sure, screws will work just as well?
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Nick. Yeah, screws would work just fine as long as a magnet will stick to them they are made of the right stuff. Good luck brother let me know how it goes.
@@heavymetalATC Yeah, today I tried to make a pickup today, because i prefer a electric over acoustic guitar, but i only have an acoustic. I took thin copper wire out of a transformer from a broken walmart clock, and i kept winding, and winding, and winding, but eventually it broke like yours did. I stopped there and connected it with some screws for a terminal, but unfortunately i dont know why, but i tested it with a multimeter and it was not conductive at all. No beeps. also didnt get anything from the resistance setting. I eventually tried, and I noticed it was making 0.030-80 volts, but it didnt increase when i strummed. I did use neodynium magnets since i saw your video on how the myths for them are false, so i did. Will try and get some actual 40 gauge wire meant for pickups soon. Hopefully it works, because i prefer electric, not acoustic. Also, how do i test if it makes and sound if i do not have an amp?
@@nicksloan9323 Its awesome to hear you are experimenting NIck. It sucks that the first one didnt work out for you but I think if you keep at it you will definitely end up with a working pickup. If you have a stereo with an rca input you could try to check the pickup on that or also hooking it to the microphone input on a computer but really you need some kind of high gain device especially with a homemade pickup in case it is weak, maybe you can find one of those really small battery powered amps somewhere for cheap or you could look into converting a battery powered radio or walky talky etc.
@@heavymetalATC Yeah, I did try some of those, but I decided it would be better to just buy a acoustic pickup and headphone amp. It would also be cheaper and more reliable, but it was fun to try and do it myself
@@heavymetalATC Eventually i just gave in because it wouldnt work, i got a nice silvertone electric guitar, but It was fun to try!
Fabuloso
What acoustic strings do you use?
I can't believe it...Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such a kind comment Mauricio. I have posted some more advanced pickup building videos in the last year still made using cheap and salvaged items. I hope you can find those useful and thanks again.
@@heavymetalATC Hey you're welcome! Your ideas are really quite useful especially for people looking to make their own salvage electric guitars with their own unique sounds. The pickup was in my opinion one of the hardest pieces of the puzzle!
Great video! I am hoping to make one! Do you have to attach the magnets? Or did you magnetize the nails? I'm going to thumbs up and subscribe to support you!
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such a kind comment Jolox. the magnet needs to stay on the nails, it will stick on its own but it may rattle and cause noise so it is best to glue it or secure it with tape or something similar.
Does it work like piezo: produce little current that you amplify with amplifier?
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave this awesome well thought out comment Murrrr. Yes it is similar in a way it also has a very small alternating current but it is produced in a different way. A piezo uses a crystal being smashed or pressed on to release electricity a pickup uses a magnet and wire to create electricity from the changes in a magnetic field. kind of like a generator or car alternator. It needs a metal object like the string to produce energy as where a peizo just needs vibration so it can work on a plastic string.
And windin'
And windin'
And windin'
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment Gino. The crazy part is it really wasn't nearly as much winding as I wanted. The magnet wire broke and I didn't feel like trying to solder that baby hair size stuff back together. Most pickups have thousands of winds. I think telecaster bridge pickup has around 9000. I redeemed myself though for the next pickup vids I used a sewing machine to wind and got them filled up. Thanks again.
Buen dia
Se puede hacer una pastilla para eléctrica de doble bobina usando alambre mas grueso
Aca no se puede conseguir el calibre #42
Saludos y bendiciones
Gracias por mirar y tomarse el tiempo para comentar. Sí, en realidad utilicé los bobinados de una bobina tomada de una afeitadora de pelo rota, pero una bobina mucho más grande de alambre más grueso es definitivamente una mejor pastilla, aunque esto demuestra que puedes usar casi todo lo que encuentres en los montones de basura para construir lo que necesites si empiezas a tratar de pegar cosas al azar. obviamente crecí muy pobre para aprender estas habilidades, ahora me pagan por demostrarlo.
This is Epic !
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment NIT.
Bro what gauge of copper wire did you use
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Its some thin stuff from a cheap hair shaver maybe half as thick as regular winding wire.
ROCK ON 💯🤘
Thanks glen.
Noiice wasn’t sure if I seen this video till u were winding 😅
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment GV. Yeah I really needed to wind it about 5x as much as i did but I gave up. Hahaha
@@heavymetalATC no brother thank u for teaching it’s something most people truly need to know about if they play
awesome
Thank u petey
Why are you yelling at me I'm sensitive❤❤❤
I like the part when you drill the hole
One sec, how many feet of wire was that
Hey, you should have took a box fan, duct taped that sucker down on the spinny ma joogle then used a spool and just guide that bad boy on in...
Anywho❤❤❤❤
Cool shit
I'm a broke ass right now so this helps
I'm subbin
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment S-U_Meg. Yeah I was not used to trying to do youtube in any serious capacity a this time so yeah... kinda sounds like yelling to me too. Hahaha
ok, soo I have no idea how much wire I used but it wasnt even 20% as much as I should have used.. Use as much wire as will fit on there 1)to get the most chance of loud strong volume 2) If you get a fault in the wire somewhere or if the first one dont work? you can use all that extra wire to do a repair or wind another sometimes they work great first try sometimes its a MF?
Later on I started using a sewing machine to wind, I have yet to build a legit winder but I do have the parts.
Thanks for the sub, I was absent on the channel for a long while but I was building up stuff to hit it with gusto on the way back, I got a full guitar shop in action now.
I built lost more much better pickups over the course of the channel so check the back catalog this one is a good one for example: wooden p90 for an actual guitar build > th-cam.com/video/RQaMo6WES4U/w-d-xo.html
Thanks again bro I hope you find the info on the channel helpful.
Did you wind it?
Thank you so much Andrew, I may have forgotten to wind it... The crazy part is this was only wound about 1/10th as much as it should have been really. Thanks again bro.
Rock On🤘
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment Glynn. I appreciate the interest in my channel brother. I got most everything caught up around the house and I will be back to making videos again soon.
I am inspired to do mine ☺
Go for it Salem! It may take a bit of fiddling or a few tries to get a really good one but, its not too hard at all. Wind it as much as you can. The more winds of wire you use the stronger and louder it will be. Also stronger magnets like neodymium will make it work better as well.
Could of put it in a drill to wind it
Legends says that he's still winding.....
Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such a clever comment Amaan. I try to be funny in my videos to keep it from being boring but alot of the time the comments just keep me rolling... And yes it was a deal to do and I didnt wind it nearly as much as I wanted since the wire broke. So in the later pickup videos I used a sewing machine to wind them up to 7-8 thousand and get a good clear barky sound. Thanks again for the funny feedback. This kinda stuff really makes my day better.
very very good Winding lol
And winding …
There’s some winding involved
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a humorous comment out of order... Oh and then when you think its wound enough do that much 4 times.
Passa a dica de como fazer friend
Get yourself an old sewing machine to use for a winding rig
U certainly wound me up lol
Grazy but it didnt sound bad 👍
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Richard. This video sent me on a journey that I will be on for the rest of my life at this point I have done some pretty crazy things with pickups and ill do plenty more before I'm done.
straight up prison tech!
Hahahaha absolutely... Like a prison tattoo gun. Thank you for watching and taking the time to write this hilarious comment Roots.
And winding then winding more winding
Thanks for taking the time to watch and leave a comment Deepu. Oh yeah... did i mention you have to do winding. LOL
And winding
Fuck yeah buddy
This is not possible because making pickups is rocket science! Why would we pay so much for the famous brands?
Hahaha 🤣 yeah, I think mostly it's just paying the people that have done all the research and experience to make perfect tones on que consistently BUT... We can all 100% wind our own pickups and it almost always turns out that hand winding sound clearer and better than most store bought stuff due to scatter and less coupling.
And windi ×(86)
Wrappy× (4)
Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment Haroon. I think I might just record things so I can say I was talking to the camera and not myself because I'm gonna do it any way LOL
And winding lol
Dude made a boring diy tutorial rocky rap song 😎
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave a kind comment Soham, Yeah bro you gotta do something to break up the technical mumbo jumbo LOL
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Believe in Jesus Christ and the blood He shed for you and be saved from hell before it’s eternally too late if you haven’t already. May God bless
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a kind and caring comment Believer. I appreciate your sentiment and concern. I would hope that my works and actions show my true intention to spread love and knowledge to others. I have the faith that my creator will guide me to the right path and open the doors that need to be opened at the time they should be opened. God Bless you Sir. I love the Templar Knight Avatar.
And winding
Then... more winding LOL thanks for watching and taking the time to comment Sarcon.