Homemade Pickup?

[mralex]

Is it worth trying to make one?

If yes, does anyone have tips, guides they can direct me to?

 

[darkstorm]

No. Not unless your willing to make tons of them, till you get it right and have a pup of qaulity parts and so on which produces the sound your after specifically. Or just as a lark hobby. If youve allready spent a whole lot of time studying pickup design and theory and application etc. From the viewpoint of several major mfg like EMG, Dimarzio, Seymor Duncan, Fralin, Bartolini, and so on. Then it might be worth it to you to make several pups putting what youve learned to the test for making side of that. Imo

 

[mralex]

oh ok, yeah i did some more reading and it sounds a-lot more time consuming and harder than i had originally imagined.

 

[MPU]

I have to disagree. I think it was really worth it to make an eight-coil pickup like WALs have myself. It wasn't even too expensive or difficult. Of course if your goal is to make another J or P copy it may be different but in my case I couldn't find any eight-coil pickups commercially available. And it was really fun too!
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