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Youtube, 7,000 winds and alnico 5 magnets from a ebay vender. Harrisonguitarpickups.com
Here are some of the ones I wind and sell.
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/hand-wound-pickups?context=user
I use the half inch pole spacing myself.
Like TPK said, just have a go at it. You WILL break the wire, guaranteed. Just be prepared to make your mistakes. But, it is really not that hard.
It doesn't matter what the wind direction and magnet orientation are.
However, if you're using three individual magnets, such as rod magnets like a Strat pickup, they should all be facing in the same magnetic direction. The magnetic direction is referred to as either North up or South up. So you want all three magnets to be either North up or South up and not a mix.
You can check the magnetic direction with either a compass or another magnet which has the poles marked.
its the length of wire really, a four string pup, by virtue of being 'longer' than a three string one, will take less wraps to make the same resistance (or inductance) because each wrap is more wire. Also, as the coil fills up the later wraps will use more wire to go around than at the beginning because the coil is getting larger. People count the winds because its much easier than counting wire in meters, feet, ounces or grams. Counting the wraps still gives you a benchmark so you can repeat and get something pretty much the same. 42 AWG is indeed what most people use. This is the american gauge, there are others. The main thing to know about AWG is that as the number gets higher the wire gets finer, not thicker; so 48 AWG will be thinner than 42AWG. If you just search ebay for guitar pickup wire you'll find plenty.
So, if its length, is there some general amount of resistance that's a good average? (I have an ohm meter.) I've ordered some 42 AWG. Possible to sand off a bit of insulation during the winding process to check resistance? My bobbin is currently 3/4 x 1-3/4" w/ three centered 1/4" dia. magnets. I understand that there's no right way but any suggestions on placement of two pups as questioned in the attached pdf?
A good starting place is about 1000 ohms (1 m ohm) per magnet/string, which is what 8000 winds will be for a three string pickup. So it would likely be between 3 to 4 m ohms. Maybe on the higher side because of the longer string spacing which take up more wire and cause a higher resistance.
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