How low can you go?

[j. pierce]

Experimenting with making a humbucker using what's left in the parts drawer.

I have two small spools of 42 here that I got as part of a trade. Well, today the first one hit it's last leg (something I've been expecting for a while) on the first coil of this p'up, topping off at 3000 winds. Just playing around, so I soldered it off.

I'm tempted to wind the other half of the bucker to match, and see what I get. I tend to like lower wound pickups, but is this just too low? How little before you have not enough?

[J S Moore]

Probably get something close to a Gretsch sound. The pickups in those were around 4.5k I believe.

[belwar]

well id say have some fun with it. wind the other coil with about 3600 turns. I don't know whether your screw or slug coil is the one with 3000 but you'll get some cool effects with either being missmatched. if your screw coil have 3000 and you put 3600 on the slug you get some more mids and high end out of it. most people load the screw coil with more turns but there are cool effects to be had with the other.

I agree too. I like lower output as well

[David Schwab]

I agree with Belwar, you can offset the coils by 1,000 turns without much increase in noise.

Lower output pickups have a great tone.

[ken]

Go for it!

You might get some cool tones out of it. You never know till you try.

Ken