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41-44 AWG: Who cares?

Allright, let's try this again.

If you change from awg42 to awg43 and keep coil size (that is the parameter that stays constant in practice) these things happen:

[*]resistance goes up because the thinner wire has more resistance per length and you also need more length to arrive at the desired coil size
[*]capacitance goes up. Capacitance is electrical charges that are "right next to each other" but separated by an insulator. Your coil windings are a capacitor. You have more winds. However, you have a different wire thickness to insulation thickness which works against building up capacitance
[*]inductance goes up because of the increased number of winds

if someone has gotten this far,
this link could be of great source for knowledge...

Electrical differences by wire gauge, a practical demonstration

(when I want to learn about pickups, I'll add "Antigua" to my google searches, and it works like magic : ) )