ever wind your own pickups?

[ibanezcollector]

was lookiing at it on stewmac.com would be fun but 4-5k turns by hand could give ya a injury LMAO would def need the machine for winding..

Anyone wind before?

[buddroyce]

I've seen a dude use a turntable/record player to do his winding before. Forgot what he used to count the # of winds though.

[bpd111]

I didn't, but Eddie Van Halen did (if you can believe him). Assuming he did, no more need be said. Try your hand (no pun intended).

[j.arledge]

Originally Posted by buddroyce

I've seen a dude use a turntable/record player to do his winding before. Forgot what he used to count the # of winds though.

wouldn't be hard if you wanted to do a little math You could figure out how many revolutions the player makes and then figure out how long to let it run .

[frankfalbo]

I wind pickups. I do it on a drill press, and it's not that hard. I have made some of my favorite pickups. I usually wind if I need something special, like a tap in the coil. I think it's dumb to just wind a PAF style pickup when there are so many cool alternatives out there.

I only got into winding to make the unique one-off projects that my idiot brain comes up with. One of my current faves is a tapped overwound 1/4 lb style pickup. You can't get anything like it from Duncan or Rio Grande. I also like my Alnico 7-string middle single coil. No one's really doing a Fender style middle single coil for 7-strings and I can't stand the Blaze single.

Anyway as long as you're confident with your technique and your machinery, it should be fun.

[Depechex]

Frank, you have a private message about the sending of the bartolini pickups, answer me when you can please, thank you.

Sorry for the offtopic guys

[marianozz]

someone should do a tutorial on this, sounds like a fun project for rainy weekends

[frankfalbo]

The problem with a tutorial is that no one is going to have the same equipment. Stew Mac gives a pretty good tutorial on their website, but it's for their winder. I think you could learn most of what you want to know from their tutorial, and then design and implement your own winder. Winding a pickup isn't that hard, but winding one by hand that produces exactly the sound you imagine in your head is probably theoretically impossible. But doing something in between the two is VERY fun for rainy weekends!

Hopefully its as close as possible to the sound you imagined, but if not, it's still fun! The worst case scenario is that you wind the pickup, it doesn't sound like you thought, so you find a different use for it in another guitar. Or cut the winding off and start again.

[guitardevil2005]

when winding and making your own pups, how do you make a pickup sound a certain way, such as really clean , really bassy, alot of treble, high output, mid output, low output?

[David McCarroll]

Originally Posted by guitardevil2005

when winding and making your own pups, how do you make a pickup sound a certain way, such as really clean , really bassy, alot of treble, high output, mid output, low output?

Read through the catalogues, and buy the one that comes closest to matching your requirements!!!!!

[marianozz]

Originally Posted by frankfalbo

The problem with a tutorial is that no one is going to have the same equipment. Stew Mac gives a pretty good tutorial on their website, but it's for their winder. I think you could learn most of what you want to know from their tutorial, and then design and implement your own winder. Winding a pickup isn't that hard, but winding one by hand that produces exactly the sound you imagine in your head is probably theoretically impossible. But doing something in between the two is VERY fun for rainy weekends!

Hopefully its as close as possible to the sound you imagined, but if not, it's still fun! The worst case scenario is that you wind the pickup, it doesn't sound like you thought, so you find a different use for it in another guitar. Or cut the winding off and start again.

Thanks Frank

[ryanb]

Waiting for the Frank Falbo pickup winding DVD ...

[frankfalbo]

Keep waiting! By that time, DVD's will be old school, and we'll be piping media directly into our brains with some kind of ipod implanted in the back of our necks.