Woltz's 2nd Scratch Build

[Woltz]

Assembled bobbins.

[Woltz]

It's been a while since I've posted because I've been occupied with other life stuff but I got a chance to get back into some guitar stuff and start making the tailpiece.

[Sonic Mountain]

Nice work. Super handy being able to do up the design in illustrator, print and stick it to the work, big fan of that technique.

[Woltz]

So I finished up the other part of the tailpiece.









Having now made the two parts I know that they are looking ok and I'll mock everything up again when I make the working templates out of thicker MDF.

I'll probably remake them both for the actual guitar as there are a couple of errors. I put too small of a radius on the curve of the retaining bracket which means the harp is not moving freely enough when the two pieces are together and I had a few holes that wandered a bit from centre when they were drilled (that'll teach me for being lazy and not using a centre punch before drilling).

[Woltz]

Nice work. Super handy being able to do up the design in illustrator, print and stick it to the work, big fan of that technique.

Yep I agree. I couldn't have even gotten this far without Illustrator.

My next jobs are to make the new saddles for the bridge which so far I've just rough cut from aluminium and I need to make the base plates for the pickups which are also aluminium.

[Woltz]

First bobbin wound. 6.15k



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[McCreed]

I know sweet FA about building pickups, so pardon my ignorance, but why are the pole pieces so long in relation to the bobbin thickness?

I'm having trouble understanding how they'll go inside the covers

[Woltz]

I know sweet FA about building pickups, so pardon my ignorance, but why are the pole pieces so long in relation to the bobbin thickness?

I'm having trouble understanding how they'll go inside the covers

That was a bizarre Rick quirk. The baseplate for the cover has a hole in the centre to accommodate the magnets sticking out. And the pickup actually sits on top of the body not in a pickup cavity. The pickup cavity on the guitar is only to give room for the magnets and a place for the wires to run.

They did do later versions of the toaster where the magnets were flush with the bobbin.

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[McCreed]

Ok. Once I looked at some images of toaster pickups, it made sense.
I knew they were flush mount pickups but I get it now.

[Woltz]

Two toaster bobbins wound, hookup wires soldered and wax potted.



I've started making the baseplate for the pickup cover but when I put the pickup together I'll need to put a little bit of foam or something inside to keep the bobbin from moving around.