ever make your own pickups

[theicecreamman]

I was wondering if anybody ever made there own pick ups using a kit or from complete scratch. If so is it worth all the time winding the wire takes?

[Don Corleone]

Frankenstraat's the man you need to talk to here.

[Frankenstraat]

I've done this many times before, you can copmbine the coils of 2 pickups and make a compromise pickup like the EVH model. They took a coil from a paf and one from a custom 5 and created the evh model. I have pics to post of the process if your interested..

[Don Corleone]

Definately, get them posted my friend.

[BrownSound1]

Interesting...so that's all the Seymour Duncan EVH model is?

I've wound transformers before, but never pickups. Most pickups have a lot smaller wire in them than what I used...and that shit breaks easily.

[Panamark]

I seem to remember coiling some wire around a magnetized nail,
hooking that up to my cassette player and slipping it under the
strings on my first acoustic, a poor 15 year olds attempt to
have an electric guitar :p

[Nitro Express]

I would just assume pay Dimarzio or Seymour Duncan the money than to make all those thousands of windings by hand and then hope to hell I didn't break that fine copper thread somewhere.

[GAR]

If he wants to learn how to wind pickups, then I'd suggest he purchase ebay auctions of broken pickups and learn by peeling the winds down to the breaks. Sometimes you get a better sound on an old Gibson T-top humbucker that way. In fact my fave is one I peeled down to about 6.3K ohms resistance.

[Nitro Express]

I took a Seth Lover humbucker and wired it in series with a strat single coil pickup and kind of got an Eddie vibe doing that.