Anyone wind their own pickups?

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Anyone wind their own pickups?

Postby thesjkexperience » Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:24 am

I am looking into trying my hand at winding some pickups. The only thing I can not find is information on how to scatter wind. My guess is that is THE secret to making great pickups as much of the components are from the few suppliers out there.

It would be nice to at least make great Jazzmaster and Strat pickups and a great Tele bridge and P-90 would go a long way with the things I am building. I would also like to tie two Strat pickups together in a humbucker arrangement.

I have an electric 12 string build on the back burner and it would be fun to come up with something unique for that.

I did score a copy of a famous winder's book which is mostly about building a winder. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet to see what it will take to build a winder, but no way am I spending $300+ for something from stewmac.
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Re: Anyone wind their own pickups?

Postby colourtones » Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:57 pm

I always dug checking out this video.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=VluwmN-G ... luwmN-GRAA
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Re: Anyone wind their own pickups?

Postby thesjkexperience » Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:54 am

Thanks! When you see this it sure makes you wonder why full time winders can have 4 - 8 week turn-around times!
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Re: Anyone wind their own pickups?

Postby thesjkexperience » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:14 am

This is the best making pickup video I have seen! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN8faik-B3o
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