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Re: Hotter wind on screw coil

4/3/2006 6:50 PM
Zhangliqun	Re: Hotter wind on screw coil I wind the slug hotter on the bridge pu and the screw coil hotter on the neck pu. In both cases I'm winding the coil hotter that's further from the bridge to make the most of the natural oomph you can get out of a guitar at a lower number of turns. It's very effective on a +/-8.5k bridge pickup in avoiding hollow mids and ice-pick treble. The slug coil is already naturally beefier even without that, though, because the screws in the other bobbin extend well below the baseplate, taking some of the magnetic field with it. The slugs stop at the baseplate, making the magnetic field more concentrated on that side. You can have both sides pretty concentrated by cutting about 1/4" off the pole pieces. (Even 1/16" makes a difference to my ears.)

4/3/2006 6:50 PM

Zhangliqun

Re: Hotter wind on screw coil

I wind the slug hotter on the bridge pu and the screw coil hotter on the neck pu. In both cases I'm winding the coil hotter that's further from the bridge to make the most of the natural oomph you can get out of a guitar at a lower number of turns. It's very effective on a +/-8.5k bridge pickup in avoiding hollow mids and ice-pick treble.

The slug coil is already naturally beefier even without that, though, because the screws in the other bobbin extend well below the baseplate, taking some of the magnetic field with it. The slugs stop at the baseplate, making the magnetic field more concentrated on that side.

You can have both sides pretty concentrated by cutting about 1/4" off the pole pieces. (Even 1/16" makes a difference to my ears.)

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Mickey Boy But if they were both wound the sam... -- 4/3/2006 9:13 PM