On this forum, I claim absolutely no expertise... There's heavy hitters in every corner and I'm here to learn, but it is always fun to imagine something new.
I was thinking about a side-by-side instead of a coil on top of another coil. There's a lot of options with the rails in a standard side by side strat size because the rails are narrow (thinner than the coil).
But if you look at the oversized poles with the rail Hammer design, they are three or even four blades wide.. so I don't think there's enough real estate for oversized poles within the coils. I guess it would be possible to fit them in a over-under coil scenario as you suggested.
Back to the side by side, I have absolutely no idea if it would work, but I was thinking there is enough room for small pole pieces, inside the treble side of each bobbin, to protrude enough that they would connect to a relatively large hunk of metal... with the mass about the same in proportion to the full sized rail hammer poles.
I'm thinking that might get the treble side into the ballpark for inductance but I have no idea what the effect would be of essentially connecting the treble pole pieces together and the fact that the mass is above the coils instead of within.
So I threw out the cover concept because it would be a relatively easy test.. but as I said in my earlier posts, I don't have the time to wind anymore and I don't have the expertise to accurately project what it would sound like.
As always, I'd love to hear from people that actually understand how pickups work at the level that I can't imagine.
But if there was enough interest, we're talking about half of a cool rail plus something new on the treble side and there are plenty of people we could pay to wind it if anybody wanted to give it a shot.
Considering this is quite a bunny trail away from the original post, feel free to start a new thread if you want to expand on the concept.
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