Recent content by DeathMetalRob

If anybody does know, is there anything that has to be done to different materials (IE silver) when winding pickups. The Zephyr (and Hurricane model that I had made) have the silver wire cryogenically treated. Is this essential for the pickup to work or is this just what SD do for the...

I'm wiring up a humbucker for my girlfriend's guitar (it's a birthday present). She has a custom shop humbucker which has two different coils and wants all the sounds, humbucking and each coil. I'm using an ON/ON/ON mini switch and looking to wire the humbucker in "UP", the bridge side coil in...

Re: Tried a Black Winter - to replace a Distortion... Did a Rutan with the SH-13

I realize that the 8 string guitar is quite a niche area for a lot of guitarists but, by a show of hands, do any players of 8 strings think that Epiphone should make even a budget 8 string model. Just one with a colour option, like the Les Paul Special I of a few years ago. A budget model...

Re: Experimental Custom Wind: Any Predictions How It'll Sound?

Re: Pushing the boundaries... The custom "stoner" humbucker.

So, for the new wire... . The moment is having gone too far. 50AWG I have worked with - that's the top wire. The lower is 64AWG - barely visible and almost certainly a step too far.. We shall see...

It had always been an idea of mine to get one of these. Initially, I didn't know whether it could be done or whether it would if it could (this was some 12 years ago.) Well, just recently, I see that the custom shop had, indeed, made a QP humbucker -...

Re: HELP!

Re: HELP! When the battery is fitted, I get pitch-shiftable noises showing that the circuit at least does half of what it should. Nothing from the pick up though. It is a Seymour Duncan Hot Stack Black Cap (20.8k) and has humbucker wiring.

I have recently bought a Seymour Duncan STC-BO2 concentric tone control. I'm trying to connect it to a passive pickup with no success... I've followed the schematic and which ever way I wire it, it doesn't work. The pickup works independently, the circuit works independently but, not together...

Gibson Guitars are, to put it mildly, in a bit of trouble. For a few years, suggestions have been made for them to branch into extended range guitars. I was one of them. If, we may suggest, Gibson were to make even one 8 string guitar line say a Les Paul 8 or Flying V 8 with either a JB/Jazz...

Just a quick note to say a massive thank you to MJ and the team for this... It's an absolutely brutal bastard and I love it. It tracks amazingly well for such a high output pickup and cleans very well. I've been recording with it and so, over the coming weeks/months will hope to have a track...

I have wound a 6 string pickup and it's great. 21k, loud, punchy, brilliant. Tonight, I wound an 8 string version of the same thing.., same wire, same amount of turns, same magnet, the lot. DCR reads 28.8k but, it's much quieter and not at all like it's original 6 string variant. What has gone...

If one puts a single coil pickup into a guitar then, fits a switch looping the pickup signal through itself, is there a positive, negative result or no result at all..?