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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
That would be a JB after an A2 bar magnet swap.
And the yes ... a more musical JB ... but still with the power of alnico 5.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
Thank you, sir! Much appreciated as always ;-)
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I'm going to build an electric mandolin and need a pickup for it. I've got a broken cheap lipstick (guitar) pickup where the wire has snapped off inside the coil. I had the idea of possibly unwinding the pickup, shortening the bobbin and magnet, then rewinding it with the same wire to make a narrow pickup for the mandolin.
Given that the pickup is useless now I've got nothing to lose by trying it but my time, so I'm just after an opinion on the likelihood of me ending up with a useful pickup or whether I'll just be pissing in the wind. Is unwinding the wire going to make it so brittle I'll never be able rewind it successfully (bearing in mind I've not done it before)? And is shortening the bobbin and magnet to 2/3 the original length going to mean that it'll end up too weak to function as a useful pickup anyway - should I try to cram as much of the wire back on as possible or is it number of turns that matter rather than length/resistance of wire?
So, in short, I suppose I'm asking if you think it's worth a try or such a silly idea that I shouldn't even bother
Given that the bar magnet is the polepiece, it will be able to sense all of the strings on your mandolin, no matter what spacing you choose. There would just be a length of "unwanted" pickup to accommodate on the front of the body. This might not look very pretty. Then, again, neither would cut down sections of the chromed tube.
One of the traditional choices for your sort of project is half of a Precision Bass pickup. It has the advantage of looking vaguely traditional. The disadvantage is that the polepiece spacing defines your string/course spacing.
If the pickup was working I'd just use it as-is - I don't really care that much about the extra width. But as I have no spare working pickups and this dead one, my options are to buy something specifically (had thought about using half a bass pickup, which would look quite cool, or just another cheap guitar pickup) or to try and make something our of the dead lipstick. I think shortening the tube (and the other physical mods to shorten bits) won't be hard - the bit I know nothing about is the unwinding/rewinding of the wire (which I'd have to do in order to rescue this pickup even if I didn't change its size). But I'll have a look for Ash's other posts you recommended, thanks.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
I just missed out on getting something from your most recent clearance, so am looking for a couple of pickups for a Gretsch BST-1000: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/181864/wtb-pickups-for-gretsch-bst-1000
Any recommendations for pickups for this guitar?
The "Oil City Masterwound Beano with shorter legs" looked perfect (the Gretsch is pretty thin). I've also vaguely considered humbucker-sized P90s (I don't currently have a P90 guitar).
Cheers,
R.
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Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
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Please attempt to quantify the sonic/tonal differences imparted by brass (of whatever thickness), nickel silver and fresh air. How much brighter/duller do things get?
I was hoping that somebody who has dismantled and rebuilt pickups of this type could say how much difference a change of cover brings.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
I feel some Seymour Duncan pickup cover surgery coming on.