beaubrummels
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Are these Seymour Duncan Trisonics? These are from 1993 on a Guild replica of a Brian May guitar. Does anyone happen to know anything about these, specs, construction, can the Custom Shop still make them?
Duncan Trisonics?
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Ashurbanipal
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^^ That's gonna be a cool one!
Yeah, those pups were made for the Mk. 2 Guilds, you can still order them from the CS, afaik. I don't know what the exact spec is, though I think they use a bobbin and have a 1pc bar mag.
For actual Burns ones, they varied a lot back in the day, as you might imagine, since manufacturing was outsourced to various places (e.g. baseplates in one place; coils in another etc.). But the typical spec most winders who make them now go for is the 2pc ferrite bar mags, ca. 5k turns of 44awg wire, steel baseplate, thin brass cover, rubber strip on top to isolate the mag from the cover. Coil is wound on a separate jig then wrapped in cotton tape, and magnets are set within. The BM modifications are rw/rp middle, potting, and no baseplate for neck pu.
I had a chart somewhere which compared the dcr and inductance of different Tri-Sonic sets (including the Duncans), but can't find it, d'oh.
Yeah, those pups were made for the Mk. 2 Guilds, you can still order them from the CS, afaik. I don't know what the exact spec is, though I think they use a bobbin and have a 1pc bar mag.
For actual Burns ones, they varied a lot back in the day, as you might imagine, since manufacturing was outsourced to various places (e.g. baseplates in one place; coils in another etc.). But the typical spec most winders who make them now go for is the 2pc ferrite bar mags, ca. 5k turns of 44awg wire, steel baseplate, thin brass cover, rubber strip on top to isolate the mag from the cover. Coil is wound on a separate jig then wrapped in cotton tape, and magnets are set within. The BM modifications are rw/rp middle, potting, and no baseplate for neck pu.
I had a chart somewhere which compared the dcr and inductance of different Tri-Sonic sets (including the Duncans), but can't find it, d'oh.