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building your own pickups

#2
This is a huge area of learning - building pickups - followed by another - learning about vintage and other pups - followed by another - replicating vintage and other pups.

Your last question is unanswerable, since nothing is "best," rather, there are many, many choices to make.

My advice is: if you'd like to start learning, and as a start at realizing how much there is to know that you haven't even begun to think about, try here
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and just hang around and read _everything_ for a while before you ask any hugely general questions such as you asked here.
 
#3
yeah what he said. I looked into this about 3 months ago, and still don't know everything, though i think i am ready to build one Getting the wire and the magnet is my major problem though. 42 gauge wire is hard to find locally and is expensive. for me at least. and neodymium magnets...thats another tough one.

could other strong magnets work? Do they HAVE to be neos?
 
#4
Kennethfaria said:
yeah what he said. I looked into this about 3 months ago, and still don't know everything, though i think i am ready to build one Getting the wire and the magnet is my major problem though. 42 gauge wire is hard to find locally and is expensive. for me at least. and neodymium magnets...thats another tough one.

could other strong magnets work? Do they HAVE to be neos?
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I get my wire here http://stores.ebay.com/BAE-MAGNET-WIRE

I get my magnets from here http://kjmagnetics.com/ Neos are not the only way to go, a lot of pickup builders use alnico magnets I've used both, I prefer the neos any day.
 

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