Gav's Pickup Winder

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Originally Posted by dingobass

In the Stewmac trade secrets section there is a tute on magnetising your new pickup pole pieces.
Its dead easy! Just need two rare earth magnets, a vice and polarity testing thingy and away ya go :)

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Thanks for the heads up DB! I am now an expert :p. I have also read up on whether North up / North down matters and how to create hum cancelling pairs of winds.

For anyone who is interested (sorry this may be well known to you gurus) here is a link from seymour duncan explaining the wind and polarity modes of pickups and how they map to in phase / out of phase. The polarity at least was news to me.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/th...e-made-simple/

cheers,
Gav.

hi guys,

Got the enclosure and the spindle finished today (rather dodgy but it serves).
She's spinning away merrily!

http://youtu.be/CWIPRoWc3CM


All I'm waiting on now is a brass rod to make a wire guide and some wire, and a few pickup kits.

exciting times!

cheers,
Gav.

Awesome.

You need to get yourself a foot controller for it, like a sewing machine speed pedal or canibalise an old wah/vol pedal... or maybe just a panic "she's gonna blow" off footswitch ;)

Cool. Can't wait to see what comes of this nifty gadget.

Very nice! So I'll be expecting my pickups in the mail in about a week?

But seriously, good job dude, maybe a bit more precision when constructing the enclosure but hey, it works! Also experiment like DB with the different variables, get YOUR own custom tone!

Thanks guys. Love the footpedal idea wierdy, i'll have to see if i can find one :P. Can't wait to actually wind a pickup or 3! I'm planning to wind a set for my strat as a first test...

cheers,
Gav.

Yeah a footpedal would be rad - would you use a resistor set up like in a dimmer switch?

Gav that is an awesome build.

Thanks Tony :). Nick - I'm not sure. I guess the foot pedal is a variable resistance of some kind. Would need to compare the resistance of the pedal with the pot in the controller circuit and then add series and/or parallel resistance to bring the foot pedal into an equivalent range (he says knowing full well the circuit is probably beyond him!!).

cheers,
Gav.

great work Gav, Shall i send my specs in?