Gav's Pickup Winder

[gavinturner]

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

Thanks for the heads up DB! I am now an expert . 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.

[gavinturner]

hi guys,

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




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.

[WeirdBits]

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

[pablopepper]

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

[keloooe]

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!

[gavinturner]

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.

[Nickosaurus]

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

[vh2580]

Gav that is an awesome build.

[gavinturner]

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.

[stan]

great work Gav, Shall i send my specs in?