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Post by Stevie on Jun 30, 2022 11:35:48 GMT
And let he who is without sin lob the first pebble!
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Post by Stevie on Jun 30, 2022 7:52:32 GMT
This thread was about a request for intelligence from folks who had made / wound their own pickups wasn't it?
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Post by Stevie on Jun 29, 2022 8:00:35 GMT
It's a trade off between inductance and resistance which affects the resonant peak which in turn makes one pickup sound subjectively "better" than the next. Using neodymium magnets, the resultant higher magnetic field means that for any given length of wire you end up a higher inductance, but you also end up with lower resistance because you need fewer turns, all things being equal which they seldom are. This is why quoting the resistance of a pickup using a multimeter is pointless, and some of Leo's early single coils have really low resistance but sound wonderful.
Then there is the effect of layer winding as against scatter winding. This affects the overall resistance with it's impact upon inductance and hence resonant peak, not to mention microphony. Since you are trying to squeeze it all into a perhaps unfeasibly small package, you will be forced into layer winding which means more resistance yada yada.
Basically you have to follow the well trodden path of sucking and seeing and deciding whether or not you like what you hear. If and when you do get a result, given the mojo fueled pickup market, there will probably be less incentive to share with others ...
For obsessive pickup research, you could do a great deal worse than to follow the contributions of "antigua" on the Proboards guitarnutz2 forum. If you were prepared to loan one to him, he would greedily analyse it and tell you of things that even the manufacturer is probably unaware, right down to magnet material, bobbin material, eddy currents in chosen metals, turns count, resistance, inductance, resonant peak, loading imposed by circuit topography (such as potentiometers etc) and so on and so forth.
There is also a seminal treatise on pickups by a Gernan fellow which I believe has just been up-issued. Unfortunately it is quite naturally written in German but there may be a translation in print. The main obstacle however is not language but cost. I'd have to do some digging to find a link if prodded.
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Post by Stevie on Jun 21, 2022 12:20:17 GMT
What a great thread, but hey- if you drop your guard for a minute, whaddayaknow- along comes a list. Bring it on though!
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Post by Stevie on Jun 11, 2022 18:42:26 GMT
I have no axe to grind one way or another regarding this (and the following should be read in that context) but it's difficult to concieve of a suggestion as to what "material' to replate it with coming from a collective that is vociferously against such an undeniably irreversible "improvement". Perhaps another online group of interested obsessives might be able to offer constructive opinions that you might find more acceptable? After many years on here, I am not surprised to read that the cognoscenti are opposed to replating.
As I said, I have no opinion one way or the other, and to support that I cite that you will find numerous folks on here that will say it's an instrument and should be played rather than be a (glass) case queen, so you can see why I am ambivalent, but it is also an ineluctable fact that (for the moment ...) you are the fortunate custodian of an instrument of historical importance. In just about any other narrow interest group I suspect that you'll receive the same cease and desist advice.
The foregoing is intended as impartially objective rather than rhetorical. If you're as old as I am then the instrument will very likely outlive you and bear the tell-tale "scars" of one sort or another, the nature of which will be in your hands.
I bet it sounds wonderful?
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Post by Stevie on May 27, 2022 14:52:31 GMT
I've seen it from a link no doubt via The Forum John, so it must have been online at some time. He did right well given the old adage regarding performing with animals and children, and it worked very well IMHO.
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Post by Stevie on May 27, 2022 14:33:30 GMT
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Post by Stevie on May 27, 2022 8:52:45 GMT
Pete the obvious approach (from an ex-metal worker's perspective) would be to drill a tiny hole at the end of the crack (just a fraction beyond it really) so that the crack is prevented from continuing unopposed on its ineluctable voyage to the dark side of the instrument. Fixing the crack is a whole other enchilada. The plated finish has no sensible cure because it implies strip and replate and that forces us to accept certain constraints over the eventual outcome.
Given the foregoing (and absent the laser welding often referenced on this forum), I suppose internal cleats just like on a timber body instrument? Attaching cleats is yet another discussion and is moderated by an acceptance that the finish is already irreversibly compromised as it stands. That said- you already know all this, it's obvious I am no "luthier" (sic) and Mike Lewis has a magic wand so ...
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Post by Stevie on May 19, 2022 9:26:02 GMT
Canvey Island Rules!
The Feelgoods were THE buzz pub band to see around the London (at least that's what they used to print almost every week in The NME and MM) but I never did get around to doing that which I know to be my loss.
Amongst my peers in the 1970s, buying 45s was très uncool so we just didn't, but my guilty pleasure was "Milk and Alcohol" and I still have it. I know it was Gypie Mayo and not classic Feelgoods with Wilco, but I'm unrepentant.
"Eight bars of Piano ..."
Indeed!
Sadly, like all these heads-ups, not having a telly I'll have to sit it out.
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Post by Stevie on May 16, 2022 8:49:02 GMT
Well at least YouTube won't benefit from any advertising revenue on those two Mitch.
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Post by Stevie on May 9, 2022 8:18:18 GMT
I'll have to make do with my Aria Mastertone 5 string. It remains my desert island instrument even though I'm leagues away from proficiency!
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Post by Stevie on May 5, 2022 7:49:52 GMT
That was splendid, really ticked a box or two here.
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Post by Stevie on Apr 11, 2022 7:53:41 GMT
Top drawer. You have that nailed down Lew. I told you you'd do it better justice than I could. Well done for helping Tony out too Mate.
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Post by Stevie on Apr 3, 2022 21:41:34 GMT
Nice sounding instrument and you're doing it justice Lewis. I wouldn't let it go too easily.
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Post by Stevie on Apr 1, 2022 18:58:47 GMT
This is the sort of guitar that I used to gaze at in abject wonderment in F.W.Woolworth's store in Hounslow high street as a five year old. They were mostly red, and it was approximately the centre counter at the front of the shop. If you're "of an age", you'll recall that the Wooly's shop windows were curved glass beckoning you towards the doors, which some nameless moronic baby boomer later decided to "modernise".
Regarding ostentatious acquistions generally, mostly I figure that they have found themselves in possesion of "disposable" cash and have cottoned on to the fact that A/ they can't take it with them when they "go", so better to turn it into fun while you're still drawing breath, and B/ to fend off the circling vultures (which extends beyond "The Family" to include that most invidious of plug-holes- Death Duties.)
Play squintilishous guit-fiddles now, or leave it to someone else to exclaim "Rock 'n' Roll"- truly there IS a dog" (anag) and go on to whiffle it away on fast cars and loose womens. You decide gentle reader, but I know where my money's went.
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