Very Nice 👌 My Chris Buck loaded HSS pickguard is the absolute Bollocks ❤

I have found the spot for louder tones, that’s perfect to me: Bass side: 1.5mm Treble side: 1.2mm It’s great for my 62‘ Reissue which can sometimes be a little weak when it’s on the standard factory setting which is: Bass side: 2.4mm Treble side: 2mm

Does anyone feel the need to actually pull a little bit out the pickup so you can rest your thumb better? For the people that has, is it worth it or are there issues?

Great post ! a HOT solder joint well done ! I've seen posts that R 100% COLD solder telling everyone it's correct !

This is so cool. I own an American tele,and often wondered how the pick ups were wound. Thank you.

Watts soldering iron?

What’s the purpose of opening case then NADA?

More importantly get hold of good soldering station, it may sound silly but in my country good soldering station price is crazy and not easy to get a usable one. And those cheapo lousy solder rod from C, had wasted a lot of my time. Amd i throw a lot of solder lead away thinking the lead has high melting point.

For curiosity, can someone make a case for handwinding pickup coils instead of machine winding? I just can’t figure out why any company would take the additional costs and risks of human error and inconsistency instead of using machine that would be able to be programmed to do the same task with incredible consistency?

I wish my Les Paul had a tiny little vise in it like that. It sure would be a lot easier to get those “nice pools” of shiny solder.

yeah, a shitty voice over with a bunch of wam bam jam jam blues in the background is not a good formula for this.

3 for me

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG !!!! If anyone tells you to use a rule tell them to shove it. 1) Lower your Bridge pickup. 2) Raise the high E until it is bright but smooth. Too high and you'll know it. Check by hitting 17th, - 20th fret. You'll know when it sounds best because you are listening to one string. 3) Plug in a distortion on the guitar through an amp and slowly raise the bass side while strumming. Do so until you get a good nice crunch. We are talking about setting the distortion to just over overdrive into slight distortion. You are aiming for an AC/DC tonality. easy to find adjusting this way. If the bass is too high lower the pickup and using a screwdriver adjust the 3rd and 4th pole pieces to adjust mids to taste. But you may not have to do that depending on how evenly the pickup is wound. Point being. This is a tried and easy way to set your bridge. 4) Lower the neck pickup and do same to high E side. 5) raise base side until you get a nice crisp clean tone. no distortion pedal. Done through clean amp. You are done. Nothing complicated. Throw away that stupid rule. Totally shit advice. IMO !!!

Sorry bud that's what we call a cold joint yes it works but not 100% leave the iorn on the joint until you can see the shape of the wire remove iorn (very important) do not let the solder joint move for about 10 seconds. I worked at a major recording studio ! probably used 20lbs of lead over the years !

The ground wire has just detached itself from the pot in my tele, so will be using this as a guide.

Pickup making is such a cool art, any recommendations as to build a winding machine or buy one?

Since sound follows the inverse square law I like Logarithmic for Volume and Linear for tone. Otherwise my perceived volume is mostly just in a small part of my knob.

Raising the screws in a humbucker reduces their magnetic strength within the pickup. The way to increase or decrease the magnetic strength of a pickup across the stings is to raise or lower the entire pickup. Lowering a pickup increases sustain by reducing the pickup's magnetic drag on the strings. It also opens up a lot of the pickups natural harmonic quality as well as making tuning a lot easier by reducing "wolftones" and other sonic anomolies caused when an overly strong magnetic field is placed too close to the strings. This is not a matter of opinion, it's science.

I went from "That is a horrible joint! WTF???" to "Damn, that was good!"

Any particular type of solder you're using?

Honest question: what type of solder do you use?

The cap leg is a worse conductor than a copper wire, thus robbing signal.

You can buy shims to lift up dog ear P90’s to the perfect height of 1/16” from the bottom of your strings. You’re welcome. 😉

Excellent 👍🏻

Ive always liked 3 ply white with rosewood fingerboards and 3 ply black for maple

Brilliant well done perfect vision

I love how these two dunces think they know more about pickups than someone who makes them for a living! What’s even funnier are the dummies who up voted their comments!!

Wonderful and brilliant for DIY guitar folks

thats a caliper, not a micrometer

Those pickups sound so pretty! Nice mods

Shame you don't do rewinds.

If it's so great, why don't the factories do this?

Puck up for a guitar?

You could have achieved the same result with the amp tone controls...

had to listen twice for the licks

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Beautiful work. What is that guard/knob colour combo? Mint + parchment?

Relicing is just plain dumb😂 Why can’t the blokes just play their frickn instruments?

What good is this video without playing a guitar with that pickup?

I'm guessing flipping the pot will make the zero and fully open points different for the user?

Ask Eddie Van Halen. 🎸

Hi, I have that thought all the time, baseplate or not. I am disabled, would love to try.

Great video, except for not using any flux. I understand that the solder you are using has a rosin core, but that doesn't do much to help the surface you heat before using the solder. A jar of actual flux, a little dab on the back of the pot, and bam....the solder will melt onto the pot MUCH faster, easier, and it will be a cleaner and stronger connection. I am honestly surprised how few soldering videos bother to mention flux when it makes the process so much easier, especially for beginners and people worried about overheating their pots.

I was always taught to have the least amount of solder between the 2 contact points as possible. Is this wrong? Im not trolling i genuinely dont know

Do you set the overall height of the pup before or after adjusting pole pieces?

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Which potentiometer value is standard on P90 Gibsons; 250k/300k ? Thanks.

Thank you

I've just bought a new Epiphone with Custombuckers. The pole for the low E string can't be set flush with the cover, I can only turn it to go higher from a position that is already high. Do you have any clue about what might be preventing this pole from going flush with the cover? Thanks?

Would this change or affect a HotRail bridge pickup? Better or worse?