pickup building

Has anyone here tried making a pickup with a Halbach array? How did they sound? I designed and made a pair of sidewinder pickups for myself to put in a bass I made, but they ended up having a pitifully low output level. Based on what I've read about them, this isn't an uncommon issue for...

Hi ! I have recently ordered a pair of used MM style pickups from a 5-string harley benton bass. I was wondering if it was possible to reuse the coil (and magnets) to make other pickups (I am hesitating between P-style pickups or multicoils). The reason I got them is because I wanted to take a...

I plan on building a monstrosity of a bass that includes, among other things, 2 strat pickups. I mainly play 5 and 6 strings, but the poles obviously wouldn't line up so I'd have to have the pickups custom made. Considering the fact that they wouldn't be able to use any existing templates or...

Hello! It's been a few years that i'm wondering if it's possible to have the signal of the 2 pickups of my jaguar bass in one jack TRS. I don't see why not but i'm not an electronic engineer. Do you think some ground issues will happened ?

Hi there, I have a squier affinity series p-bass that I've had since high school. Back in the day, I wanted a little more sound out of it so i installed a single coil in the bridge position like on a j-bass. The issue is that I have never figured out how to get the two pickups to work together...

Hey folks, thank you for having me. I come from Berlin and I play double bass and guitar. I started out playing cello as a kid, switching to double bass in order to play jazz and funk for many years. After deciding not to go for studying jazz-bass in favor of another hobby which had any chances...

I just got a used ric from my friend. I want to change a pick in a warmer sound for rock style, but I still want to keep the ric sound. I plan to keep the treble pickup, only change the neck pickup. My first choice is the Bartolini. But I have no idea about how these two sound will combine. Will...

So I'm thinking of building some cheaply made humbuckers as a little project for myself. How many coils should I use and what gauge wire? I'm looking for quite a powerful low end but something that can still punch through the mix, any suggestions/advice? Thanks

Hi everyone, I am a complete disaster in electronics and related arguments and I hope someone can help me! As a passion and hobby I (try to) build some instruments and I started also winding my own pickups; and speaking about single coil, humbacker and so called "normal pickups" no big problems...

Since starting my own pickup-making project, it has been suggested by a few folks that it would be a good idea to start a thread here in The Luthier's Corner dedicated to building pickups. The intent is to have a thread for all the pickup builders here in LC to contribute, share projects and...