Specs on EVH wolfgang pickups

[paulyy]

Im looking for specs on the new evh wolfgang pickups. Output, magnet type, kind of wire and any thing else I could find on it. They sound really nice but cant find anything on them. I read that they are made inhouse at fender. Thats all I know. Can any body help me. thanks.

[David Schwab]

Coils are wound to about 7K and use 44AWG wire.

[paulyy]

Coils are wound to about 7K and use 44AWG wire.

Thanks. I looked everywhere to find any thing on his pickups. Where did you find this info, if you dont mind me asking.

[Possum]

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Thats just weird. Well the other part of it you'll never find out about unless you spend a ton of money. What alloy are the screw poles, the slugs and the keeper. If you just buy some stewmac parts and wind it like Dave said you most likely won't get the same tones.

[paulyy]

Thats just weird. Well the other part of it you'll never find out about unless you spend a ton of money. What alloy are the screw poles, the slugs and the keeper. If you just buy some stewmac parts and wind it like Dave said you most likely won't get the same tones.

Thats true. even if I did get all the right part and got it close. I would have to consider how my guitar is made due to the type bridge, wood and pots. I read he use a 500k and a 250k pots. I might consider trying that too. I just dont know whitch one he uses for volume and tone. I just want somthing close. Just somthing to shoot for.

[David Schwab]

Thanks. I looked everywhere to find any thing on his pickups. Where did you find this info, if you dont mind me asking.

Over at MIMF.com. Pickup maker Clint Searcy got one to rewind. He posted some photos too.

So I asked him the specs. Also the magnet is a thin ceramic.

THis is one of his photos.

[Possum]

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That looks like alot more than 7K worth of 44 on that one bobbin, I wonder if the cores are really thick.....

[J S Moore]

The black bobbin looks like the usual dimension. That looks like about 7k's worth of 43 gauge to me, unless the bobbin dimensions on the white one are different.

[kevinT]

Yes. It looks like 43 to me too. And it would make sense. ...to put more metal in the circuit, especially with a ceramic, to darken it up/reduce the harshness that ceramic can sometimes create.

[David Schwab]

I thought 43 made sense too, but he did rewind the pickup would have gotten a much higher reading with 44.

Either way it's basically a DiMarzio SDHB!

[paulyy]

Over at MIMF.com. Pickup maker Clint Searcy got one to rewind. He posted some photos too.

So I asked him the specs. Also the magnet is a thin ceramic.

THis is one of his photos.

That pickup has seen better days. I would of thought it had some type of alnico magnet, not ceramic. I figured it be close to a paf style pickup.

[J S Moore]

I'd have thought so as well. It's interesting to see where different people's thinking ends up as an end product.

Those bobbins are nylon. They look identical to the ones Paxphil sells.

[kevinT]

That pickup has seen better days. I would of thought it had some type of alnico magnet, not ceramic. I figured it be close to a paf style pickup.

you're probably thinking of his old days with the paf in his Frankenstrat.

His newer EVH-branded stuff have ceramics.

[PAF-Boy]

That pickup is out of a Peavy Wolfgang.Had one myself but my pickups had a alnico magnet and the same black sprayed brass bottomplate.The tone is verry modern and polished not as ugly,edgy and scratchy as the old EVH tone he had with his messed up PAF´s.

[greenfingers]

Over at MIMF.com. Pickup maker Clint Searcy got one to rewind. He posted some photos too.

So I asked him the specs. Also the magnet is a thin ceramic.

THis is one of his photos.

To me looking at that pic it looks like the original Wolfgang pickup, and not the new spec one launched in January.