Making a Single Coil Pickup: Complete Guide

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Chapters:

0:00 Pressing the Magnets
2:01 Gluing the Flatwork
3:17 Sanding it Smooth
3:46 Taping the Magnets
5:32 Thread Tapping the Mounting Screw Holes
6:56 Correcting Mistakes - Replacing Magnets
7:54 Spool Holder & Tensioner
9:22 Tinning the Magnet Wire
9:54 Tying the Eyelets
10:21 Mounting Onto the Winding Plate
10:40 Traverse Limiter
11:51 Winding Time
12:20 Repairing Wire Breaks During Winding
14:04 Tinning & Tying the Magnet Wire (Again)
14:21 Soldering + Wiring + Signing the Pickup
15:38 Wax Potting
16:06 Magnetizing
16:35 Outro

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^^^ All credit there belongs to "Antigua Tele" on TDPRI and Ken Willmott (rigatele on TDPRI), who guided me step by step through the entire process and are another couple guys I owe a massive amount of credit to.

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Complete Single Coil pickup build, from soup to nuts. Check out my eBay store for some of my handwound pickups here:

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Major, MAJOR credit to Rob DiStefano of Cavalier Pickups, as well as Steve Kubica. If it weren't for them, I would not be doing guitar work at all or winding pickups with anywhere near this amount of precision and finesse. Or at all. Rob first reached out to me on TDPRI when I posted a picture of me using a DeWalt cordless drill to wind a pickup, telling me that if I needed help, to just shoot him a message.

And 5 years later, and dozens of pages of conversations online later, here we are. And I won't even get into the first times I started hanging out at Steve's house and watching him work on guitars, and him showing me the ropes of guitar setups and fretwork at the tender age of 15 years old, back in 2005.


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