Pushing the boundaries...

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ICTGoober said:
At this point, pickups for musical instruments have been made for about 100 years.
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That summed up the history of bikes......all made out of metal. Then carbon fibre comes along and changes the whole ballgame.

One thing for sure, if you think you've reached the end of possible development, you'll enact it by stopping looking.
 
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AlexR said:
I mean, guys run multiple amps to fill in the spectrum and make it sound huge. Imagine if you could simultaneously wind a bobbin with say 3 vastly different wire gauges. Would it do the same thing if they all were picking up the strings at the same time.
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Are you meaning three different gauges on the same bobbin or a tribucker layout.. or a P-Rails type arrangement?

http://assets.fender.com/frl/a01c25...enerated/6c33d22d769f94f3a8be4d1b5d47c76d.png

There is a way to work that. Get a single humbucker blade coil and put two strat sized blade coils (or Quad Rails blades) either side of it. That would fit on one humbucker and you'd get a tri-wind. Like blade P-90 with a smaller coil either side - two bar magnets underneath. Not sure if that' been done before.

If it works, the AlexR-bucker :)

I can do that. The issue would be fixing the bobbins to the base. Hot glue, perhaps.

I can try it out.
 
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ICTGoober said:
At this point, pickups for musical instruments have been made for about 100 years. The experimentation is over, and for the most part - the answers have been found. That's all I'm saying. You want the story? Do the research. For God's sake don't start with YouTube. Start with the pioneers - Rickenbacker, etc. Pre-Fender and pre-Gibson. That's where the real story is at.

I didn't say don't experiment. But if you want the real story - it's out there if you do the work.
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This seems to be a somewhat innovative design.
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This seems to be a somewhat innovative design.
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Don Lace and family are a pretty sharp bunch, I'll grant you. I love their Lace Sensor designs, and the Alumitone was a real head scratcher when it came out. Nothing mainstream about them at all.
 
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DeathMetalRob said:
I'm English - it's what we do :P
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Indeed!
I am not in the market right now but I will be cheering you on from afar. Wild experiments sometimes lead to amazing discoveries.
I have read that Bill Lawrence told Larry Dimarzio to wind a LOT of different pickups just to see what would happen until he could start to predict ahead of time what effect various changes might create. That seems to have worked out pretty well for him...
 
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I remember an old interview with Les Paul... Said he wound a pickup with several turns of lamp cord once. It was the cleanest sounding pickup he'd ever wound, but it had really low output.
 
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ICTGoober said:
I remember an old interview with Les Paul... Said he wound a pickup with several turns of lamp cord once. It was the cleanest sounding pickup he'd ever wound, but it had really low output.
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The cleanest tones come the thickest wire.

The very first pickup I did had 30AWG on it and was SO sparkly clean but, almost silent. I had to have the amp on full just to make it room-filling volume. The way turning a normal pickup to 2 would.
 
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