What a massive improvement to that middle pickup you made there. I used to wind pickups 300 years ago. You wouldn't know cause you don't speak to others. The dinosaurs used to take me swimming 🏊♂️ Men are world famous liars. Deal with it.
I like to think of the 1950s-60s Fender employee doing a batch of bridge pickups. Most got done in the same way, but a few escaped with overwinding because of a few extra drags on a Winston or an interesting baloney sandwich ...
Winston drags died out in the late 80s. Baloney sandwiches 🥪 made an appearance around 2000 and quickly died out. Bridge pick-ups on the other hand, fender in particular, have been gossiped about in a negative way for far too long. It's not the pickup's fault, it was the fault of the user to not realise fender has a unique signal out of the guitar. Which made sure it was electrically exclusive to fender. Foolish guitarists had no clue but they had BIG GOSSIPING MOUTHS. They've said the lie over and over for 40 years.
I had to laugh at Dave Hunter's article about how there's no such thing as "hand winding". He stated the obvious; how nobody sits down at a table with a bobbin and a spool of wire and winds it with their bare hands. I laughed and thought "nobody thinks that!" which may not be ENTIRELY true, but come on! The problem is, he doesn't know what "hand winding" actually means, which is bizarre, considering his profession and seeing as how there are thousands of videos on youtube of people doing it - like this one. Really like this one.
Excellent video! Even as somebody who works within the electromagnetics realm, I found this video very insightful. Keep sharing the knowledge my friend.
what a knowledgeable character , he should write a fender book. dont these very old fenders have numbers on the black back pickups ? it seems theyre all wound in the same direction from something he said.
Tiene sonido común, y se escucha bien, pero hace muchos años que no escuché el sonido fender original, a la cual los single coil no se veían los polos magnéticos, parecía una lámina acrilica
Clearly the public doesn't know any of this stuff. I think it's time the public stops gossiping and apologies for their absurd behaviour of the last 40 years.
Men don't listen to great advice. They've been stuffing things up for multiple decades in a row. We're sick and tired of mens behaviour. They've been telling others to shut up cause they know it all, for multiple decades in a row.
Excellent video. A question. Between what resistance range should the three pickups have to preserve a vintage sound from the 50s, using alnico 5 and heavy formvar 42awg?. Thanks for answering.
Great , thank, that's very usefull, could you provide any link to get a magnet gauss meter ( spin doctor or other wit appropriated calibration for pickups? available for shiping in France...
When I have ordered pickups they have always come with an elastic band holding them together admittedly not the best quality but this must have an effect when they are touching for a long period of time
They probably didn’t remagnetize it. Tip a Strat against an amp and the middle pickup is right where the speaker magnet is. I’m not sure it matches the other two, but who knows.
Fantastic video, very educational, thank you! The chimeyness in those pickups is insane, what a great tone the 50’s spec low-output pickups had. Is the chimey tone more down to the resistance, the wire gauge or coating? The magnets? Potting? I’ve always been super curious about what causes the chime and bell-like tones in vintage strat pickups! Nothing harsh nor hairy-fuzzy. So warm and clean.
Hey, you've been telling people to shut up cause YOU KNOW IT ALL, but now you're acting like you DIDN'T know it all. Guess what? Your public pose didn't fool anyone. We could tell you had NO CLUE about this topic and most topics.
My dear old grandad did wind pickup wire by hand. Well that is to say a hand cranked spinner and guiding the wire with the other. I still have the little jig in my shed. He built it from the guts of an old clock and its mounted on a breadboard. He taught my dad how to make them and me too, but i have never been able to make any money from it as pickups are easy to get now.
and thats why real vintage will always sound better because hes hand cranking it and the modern 'hand wound' actually use a computer based scatter program, whereas a computer csn only simulate randomness, it cant create true chaos like an organic human
@capaya8139 honestly I doubt they weren't hand cracked in the 40s and 50s, at the most they were very primitive electric machines controlled by a foot pedal, there were no computer algorithms. I mean when did electric sewing machines really come in? 60s and 70s? And that was a way bigger industry. My grandma was a seamstress and she used a foot pedal cranked non electric sewing machine up until she retired in the early 2000s cause that's what she trained on, and she was a trained typist too, and used an old school typewriter her whole life. I dunno, I've got some awsome old books about fender with some great photos, guess I'll take a look
@@roberttodd2414 most boutique pickup winders dont use computer aided winding machines. 90% of them are just simple motors with a turn counter that are manually stopped
My Dad's '56 sunburst had quite neat and uniform coils, slightly bulbous in the middle, coil impedance varied from one multimeter to the next, average 5.8k. I have yet to hear a better sounding electric guitar.
Sounds like he was plucking a little stronger and maybe the PUP was raised a tad higher after the rewind. I don't hear any significant difference. BTW, weaker Gauss would make it warmer sounding due to less upper-harmonic emphasis from string pull effects. What about the total R load? If the tone pot was swapped over to the bridge PUP, as many of us do, the R on the middle PUP would be ~250k instead of ~125k, and the resonance peak would be a few dB stronger. That alone would account for a thinner sound, but the middle pos can sound a bit strident on the thinner strings anyway, and worse on the bridge PUP. Wiring a ~20 over the middle pos log to ground might be in order. BTW, I'd be very surprised if any new Strat PUP poles measure over 1100G after settling, and are probably somewhat under that. 100G difference would hardly be noticeable anyway, considering all other factors.
Tuning NEVER WAS ABOUT big differences. Stop your endless gossip. We're sick of world 🌎 famous liars. Guitarists are low quality people. They can't tell if a guitar pedal is in use or not. They can't tell what amplifier is in use at the time. They can't tell what brand of amplifier is in use at the time.
That middle bobbin looks like it’s from a different set. Seems like that full a bobbin should have been over 7k. We wind very differently and I never thought to go over the top of the guide.
