Mastodawn

Echos Feb 23, 2024

These DPTT switches can be a real brain bender 🧠

#mustang #duosonic #guitar #electronics #dptt #2p3t #dp3t #humbucker

xenogon Oct 4, 2023

Thread: 1/n about guitar pickup design and pickup winding.

I built a guitar pickup winding machine.

More on this topic will follow as I progress and as I have time to post.

I have some unusual pickup designs in the works.

#guitar #guitarpickup #magnet #induction #humbucker #fender

Scott the F is implicit Baxter Apr 3, 2023

Oof. I'm in pretty deep trying to rewire this to have four leads. Aiming for series/parallel.
#guitar #humbucker #pickup #DIY

Scott the F is implicit Baxter Mar 25, 2023

Any problems with using #USB cable for #humbucker #guitar #pickup wire? Shielded, 4 leads (r/g/bk/w). Seems perfect. (I want to rewire a 2 lead pickup for series/parallel).

Dale Hirt Feb 5, 2023

New locking tuners, upgraded electronics, and new pickups (#GuitarFetish VEH https://www.guitarfetish.com/KP--VEH-Vintage-Extra-Hot--The-BROWN-SOUND-Black--Kwikplug%E2%84%A2-Ready_p_21914.html) makes this sucker sound warm and sweet like a #humbucker should #Guitar #Guitars #GuitarUpgrades

Guido Bibra Jan 13, 2023

My second-ever electric guitar was a very cheap semi-hollowbody in a rough Gibson ES style that I got from Amazon for only 120 Euro just for the look of it. But this ‘Cherrystone’ actually turned out to be a solid guitar with good sound and a decent build quality. Except that one of the tone knobs was so loose that it lost its wiring, dropped into the body and I haven’t been able to reattach it yet - but it still plays fine! #guitar #guitars #music #semihollowbody #cherrystone #humbucker

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Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈Dec 3, 2022

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The Satchur8:
coil 1, 2.88 H, 5.77 kΩ
coil 2, 2.89 H, 7.22 kΩ
series, 6.64 H, 13.0 kΩ
parallel, 1.68 H, 3.21 kΩ

What's interesting about these numbers? DiMarzio claims that both of these #guitar #pickups (and many others they make) have coils with deliberately different resonant frequencies. And you can see this in the numbers.

The two coils of a #humbucker have to have the same inductance, or the hum canceling is diminished (i.e. more hum gets through).... 8/?

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Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈Dec 3, 2022

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OK, let's cut to the chase. I don't have a rig for measuring resonant frequency, but I did get inductance and series resistance numbers for both #pickups.

Each pickup has two coils. I measured them individually, in series (the usual #humbucker configuration), and in parallel.

The Air Norton:
coil 1, 2.80 Henrys (inductance), 6.90k Ohms (resistance)
coil 2, 2.70 H, 5.35 kΩ
series: 6.41 H, 12.3 kΩ
parallel: 1.61 H, 3.02 kΩ

... 7/?