Recent content by MichaelScottPerkins

The only guitars I've ever owned had factory American Fender strat and/or tele pickups, or 57' Classic Gibson humbuckers. I've never played a guitar that has P90s, but I have played in a band with a guy that had them, and they were a really noisy racket. I am relatively new to building pickups...

I have never made a P90 before, but I've been asked to by a close friend. He asked me if I can make a pair of quiet P90s that do not hum, pick up radio stations, and florescent lights. I've always thought of P90s as just really wide but thin single coil pickups, and are notorious for being...

I am an avid woodworker, and am brand new to looking at making a guitar pickup. I was watching an interview with Jason Lollar on "The Doug and Pat Show" on YouTube, and they talked about how old 1950's and 60's PAF pickups, when you take them out now to have a look at them, a lot of the time the...

When making a humbucker, you wind one coil clockwise, and you wrap the other coil counter clockwise. How do you splice one of the coils to the other? When making a humbucker, is it important to have all 12 magnets in the same polarity, meaning they all have N facing up, or S facing up, or is it...

Why are modern pickups usually made with 42 or 43 AWG wire? Why not as small as 50 AWG or as large as 40? Maybe another important question is, are the number of wraps, i.e. the total length of the wire that increases a pickup’s strength, or is it the total mass of copper? For example, why not...

About to wind my first pickup: Strat Style. Alnico 5 poles, 42 AWG poly-coated wire, All Stewmac stuff. If 42-43 AWG is coated, either poly or enamel,when you first tie it to the brass eyelet of a bobbin, how does the poly-coated wire make an electical connection? Does the heat of the solder...

I have watched every video there is on YouTube on making your own pickups, and I have researched the crap out of the electromagnetic transduction of guitar pickups. I have a pickup winder, and all the necessary gear to start making pickups, but I still just have a ton of questions. Can anyone of...