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Re: Insulation tonal differences?

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5/10/2006 1:50 PM

Re: Insulation tonal differences?

I use all my guitars as 'demonstrators' for my pickups, each one has a different variant of my pickups. This way I can justify buying lots of guitars too. I'm cheap, so I usually prowl pawnshops and music stores looking for used gear.

I used to just have different pickguards around like that, but removing the customer's PG, putting in mine,
removing mine, etc. drove me crazy. Not to mention getting customers with 'nonFender' guitars so the pickguards didn't fit.

Besides, if I play out, I can tell people about my pickups if they ask.

Ken

5/10/2006 6:36 PM

I have a theory about why the insulation types make a difference and sometimes not. Poly wire is very slippery and stretchy because the coating is very slippery. You can stretch the heck out of poly wire and get more wire on a bobbin with it than any other wire I've found. I once got over 8K of 42 on a strat bobbin when I first started out :-)

:-)

Plain enamel on the other hand isn't so stretchy and less slippery so you cant get as much wire so your coils can be bigger. I had some Korean PE that was really almost matte finished that wouldn't tolerate stretching at all and wore a groove quickly in my felt tensioner. It was crap wire, the insulation wasn't very good but I loved the fact that it made nice fat coils, very vintage tone. The MWS PE is more stretchy and slippery than the old Essex wire that I had.

5/11/2006 7:16 AM
Roscoe	Has anyone tried triple or quad build insulation, or is that overkill. I here people talking about heavy build but according to some of my wire charts heavy build is double build. MWS list it as, single heavy triple quad

5/11/2006 1:28 PM
noobee	I think triple would give you a pickup with lots of output and be very clean but not much more to it than that. Never mind quad, you may get 3K on a strat bobbin.

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