Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by JUJU on April 11, 2010 at 1:58am

Hi Mark - the most common wire used for pickups is 0.42 American Wire Gauge (AWG)or in english metric thats 0.063mm
this is where i buy mine from
http://www.wires.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww...
it works out cheaper to buy 500g which would make about 10-12 three string pickups with 8-10,000 winds hope that helps - oh the prices exclude VAT and shipping
juju :-)

Permalink Reply by Tonemonkey on April 11, 2010 at 9:41am

Afraid that this is a new computer so I've lost all my links. I did have loads of info about it....

I can tell you that you can build a pickup winder out of mechano, a remote controled car and the counter off of a toy plane.

I hang about on the bare knuckle pickups forum and if you go to the product section of the website alot of them say what gauge wire was used. They're English so you can rely on the AWG being right.

Permalink Reply by Mark on April 11, 2010 at 11:04pm

Thanks for that info guys, I feel I'm on the right track now. Juju, that's an interesting site you pointed me too and I can see it being useful for several things.