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It's really clever isn't it! I was just wondering if anyone knows how well it actually works. I definitely want to try it some time i the future.I love instructables! Thanks for this...i'm soooo making one!
Yep - that's a pretty good example of one way to make a pickup, and probably quite easy for a beginner to follow.
I'm not too sure about using a sewing machine as a winder. Some people even use an electric drill, but I think that is far too fast ! You are using very fine wire - 22 guage - and it will easily break if you ae not very carefull. I use an old record player which, running at 33 or 45 r.p.m., is nice and slow and gentle on the wire. Easy to control the feed from the spool the wire comes on to your pickup.
They also mentioned about 'potting' the pickup coils in wax after making it. What I do instead, an old idea way back from my amateur radio days of making radio tuning coils, is to pause after each layer of coil winding and paint over with some clear paint/lacquer/varnish. The idea is to hold all the turns in place so they do not become 'microphonic'.
Like the article says, ai to fill the bobbins with turns of wire. I usually reckon on getting some where around 5000 turns on a pickup, but anything between 3000 and 8000 will work but sound a bit different.
The easiest thing to test a pickup with, before you fir it into a guitar, is to use a tuning fork.
The wire was tough to get out and I ended up having to throw half the kinked and knotted coil away. I got about 750 winds on it. It sounds really nice and clean on my diddley bow, because of the low number of winds(I guess). I cranked up my amp to ten and the sound was still pretty much the same clean sound. Since I wasn't sure if I would get any sound, I'm proud of how it turned out .
I just got done making my first pickup. You can see the pics of it in the photo section. I ordered three 3/16" x 3/4" neodymium magnets from K&J Magnetics online, and got some magnet wire from Radioshack.
I have some neodymium magnets, which I took out of an old broken hard disk drive. They seem very powerful and I'm wondering if they're actually too strong. I know you want enough field stength to give your pickups a reasonable output but I've read that if the pull of the magnet on the string is too strong you can have problems (choking?)
Steve Becker said:I just got done making my first pickup. You can see the pics of it in the photo section. I ordered three 3/16" x 3/4" neodymium magnets from K&J Magnetics online, and got some magnet wire from Radioshack.
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