Twigman Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 After the Wal talk at the bass bash on Saturday and seeing the insides of a Wal pickup - each magnet has its own coil.....I am tempted to have a go at winding my own pickup. Has anyone tried this? Any tips on methods to count windings? Sources for rod magnets/fibreboard? Any tips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scojack Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I have, made a winder from an old printer motor and a mechanical counter from an old reel 2 reel tape. Made a few DB pickups but found it really fiddly, failing eyesight didn't help either. Its well rewarding though, when you get some noise from a few magnets and copper wire. Amazing how easy and low-tech the whole process is. Pretty much everything here .. http://www.mojotone.com/guitar-parts/Pickup-Parts Good Luck !! IanM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer of the Bass Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I've wound a few guitar pickups and one bass pickup, though nothing of the Wal multi-coil sort. I got my magnets from Cermag [url="http://www.cermag.co.uk/"]http://www.cermag.co.uk/[/url] and my wire from Brocott's [url="http://www.brocott.co.uk/"]http://www.brocott.co.uk/[/url] . I've used vulcanised fibreboard which came in small quantities from eBay sellers, but you could improvise with other materials too. I used tufnol sheet on one, because I had a scrap piece lying around. I didn't count windings; since I've only done single coils (rather than matched coils for humbuckers) I've just wound until the bobbin looks full and then checked the resistance. For bridge/neck pairs I just would the bridge a bit fuller than the neck. My winding setup was fairly haphazard, I just strapped a small hobby drill to a piece of wood and wired it up to a little speed controller PCB which came from eBay. I had a bit of dowel with sections of cork on it to guide the wire and set the horizontal travel, and tensioning was done by hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommorichards Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 While on the subject of pickup making. Anyone here know where to get a magnet for a pickup like this? I believe that its pole orientation is different, but i may be mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigman Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 http://www.mojotone.com/guitar-parts/Alnico-Bar-Magnets these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommorichards Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 See, im not sure if the magnetic field direction is correct on those. Are the short sies the poles or the long sides? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer of the Bass Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I think that would be the right orientation, as on a standard P90/Humbucker magnet the poles are the two long edges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommorichards Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 internesting. I may have to try this when i am able to get my pickup winding machine made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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