Topic: noobie pickup winder
yes, I have fallen for a new potential hobby.
I will be getting my new book of Lollar's winding pickups new edition. I already got a pickup kit from stewmac, and I've got a BUNCH of pickup reciepes I have been conceptualizing over the years. Some of them are pretty outside the box, so it'll be interesting to see if they work. Yet others are variations of existing mentalities.
Not really looking to go into business, but I might make some gifts, and do some friends/family work. I might try cutting the windings off the Alnico 5 Epiphone pickups and seeing if rewinding them scatterwound would give them a more "custom" tone. I'll be getting a used Epiphone Les Paul tomorrow to serve as my "mule" for testing the pickups I wind. I found a pretty good deal on one.
The Seymour Duncans and DiMarzios have taken enough $ching$ where for the price of merely a few more of those pickups, I can try doing it myself. No discredit to them, they are in business for a reason - they do their job well. But to my credit, I've already made two strats, one from ebay parts and one from a half done luthier body - so I know I can do some things too. So here goes!
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has taken a stab at winding pickups!
Ask me about my handwound Great Lakes Guitar Pickups
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