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Other Stuff => Guitars => Topic started by: paintballnsk on October 28, 2020, 01:39:07 pm
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Hey guys,
Anyone have any experience winding pickups with a CNC winder (or by hand)?
I am just looking for a good starting point to try my first humbucker. I assume this will take quite a bit of trial and error. My favorite pickup tends to be the Duncan JB, goes in most of my guitars. I'd like something in that ball park, with just a little less "quack" in the mids.
The pickup is going in the bridge of a PRS 20th anniversary single cut, which currently has Tremonti pickups in it.
I'm using 44g wire. Alnico 5 magnet.
Any suggestions on how many windings I should do on each bobbin and how fast I should oscillate the "hand"? I have a motor hooked up to the "hand" which can oscillate up to 11 RPM (from left of bobbin, to right, and back again). The bobbin spinner can rotate up to 1000RPM.
Thanks!
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Stew Mac has good pdf instruction sheets and spec’s for general assembly and number of winds. They are listed with their pick up kits.
There are also a ton of vid’s on YouTube on this as well. Replicating a JB is gonna be a lot of winds.
Just built my pick up winder last week but I am starting with single coils for a strat I built a while back looking to replicate a 50’s early 60’s wind.
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All the winds and rewinds I've done have been with dewalt battery powered drill and hand feeding the wire. I did at one point use a wind counter made from 2 contacts wired to the left click of a mouse and used my computers calculator but now I kind of guess and aim for too high. I can always unwind if needed.
The most difficult one I did was an air coil for an old schaller pickup. It took me 3 tries. %&*^%& PITA!!