captcoolaid
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I have been doing a couple of these this week. As most of you know I specialize in very high DC pickups or more modern winds. 
These to me are far more difficult to do for me than a vintage or vintage wind. Now keep in mind I am not talking about replicas when I say this. Just the wind itself. For anyone who does not think so try getting 11 thousand turns on 1 bobbin with out destroying the integrity of the bobbin or having it unspool on you because it is bigger than the bobbin. Yep that is right bigger than the bobbin. So here are some picks. By the way this is Nitrous's pup and it will read almost 22k with an A8.
first to give perspective. This is a 3.86k coil with 4700 turns at a TPL of roughly 68 give or take.
Now here we have screw side of 9830 turns on one bobbin TPL is raised just a bit right at or around 82 with a slight scatter to 62 in the middle. You will notice the coil size. You will also between this coil and the next this coils tension is lower.
The reason for this is placement of the coil in conjunction to the wind.
Because I use 43 for this and how tight the second coil is and the fact it has 10,292 turns on it at 76 TPL you have to adjust the tension on the screw coil to keep it from sounding "sterile" or lack in the lows. Remember this is getting a A8 in it which will ad drive to it but will also add to much bite if the coils are not exact. That is why I do it like this.
Surprisingly enough this pickup audibly has the same output as a low DC pickup. I have found that in terms of my ears that after say 8.4k things start to get brown sounding. This is absolutely hands down my favorite pickup for strat and Tele type guitars because of how fat they sound and the for Strats a 10.6k tap slug side for a fat strat tone and on a Tele screw side for a 9.7k tap for some great twang.
Anyway I just thought I would share this beast with you all, and I have no fear of anyone reproducing it. I have tried on 3 other machines and you get real screwed at around 9000 turns. So any questions go for it. I will answer all that I can.
These to me are far more difficult to do for me than a vintage or vintage wind. Now keep in mind I am not talking about replicas when I say this. Just the wind itself. For anyone who does not think so try getting 11 thousand turns on 1 bobbin with out destroying the integrity of the bobbin or having it unspool on you because it is bigger than the bobbin. Yep that is right bigger than the bobbin. So here are some picks. By the way this is Nitrous's pup and it will read almost 22k with an A8.first to give perspective. This is a 3.86k coil with 4700 turns at a TPL of roughly 68 give or take.
Now here we have screw side of 9830 turns on one bobbin TPL is raised just a bit right at or around 82 with a slight scatter to 62 in the middle. You will notice the coil size. You will also between this coil and the next this coils tension is lower.
The reason for this is placement of the coil in conjunction to the wind.
Because I use 43 for this and how tight the second coil is and the fact it has 10,292 turns on it at 76 TPL you have to adjust the tension on the screw coil to keep it from sounding "sterile" or lack in the lows. Remember this is getting a A8 in it which will ad drive to it but will also add to much bite if the coils are not exact. That is why I do it like this.
Surprisingly enough this pickup audibly has the same output as a low DC pickup. I have found that in terms of my ears that after say 8.4k things start to get brown sounding. This is absolutely hands down my favorite pickup for strat and Tele type guitars because of how fat they sound and the for Strats a 10.6k tap slug side for a fat strat tone and on a Tele screw side for a 9.7k tap for some great twang.
Anyway I just thought I would share this beast with you all, and I have no fear of anyone reproducing it. I have tried on 3 other machines and you get real screwed at around 9000 turns. So any questions go for it. I will answer all that I can.
