You won’t find any pickup manufacturer revealing his „secrets“. Otherwise they would counteract their voodoo magic, which was specifically hyped for industrial marketing.
On the other hand, I am not afraid to show you the different steps of my way of winding a pickup.
Which kind of pickup am I goin´ to make?
Selecting from different kinds of magnets and matching them (alnico5, ferrite bar, ferrite slugs, soft ferrite blades, alnico5 blades, FeSi-blades or steel-rods with alnico5 or neodym)
the procedure of making pickups – coils
Watch my cute neon shiny „retired“ DIY-winding machine which served me for many pickups. She´s a real pretty one and got replaced now by a new Schatten Model D winding machine for better performance.
finish work – the pickups´s getting ready
Since the first epoxy layer that surrounds the coils is extremely thin and leakage from the pole pieces cannot be prevented, the front must be covered with well-sealing copper foil so that as little epoxy as possible gets onto the pickup surface.
The copper foil is removed after the epoxy has cured moderately.
Finishing – no voodoo, just meticulous work!
The wires get connected to the pickup-cable and the cable´s shield gets solded to the copper-shield of the pickup-cover for opt. ground and max. noise avoidance so that “noiseless pickup” lives up to its name..
quality assurance – Test-Rig – conventional with 3 different changeable capacitors (instead of just one) or C-switch (6 different capacitors) or mixed
finally for sale!
