where is the best place to buy bucker parts

[copperheadroads]

im looking around to buy a few parts to make a few humbuckers or experiment with them. places like mojo or stewmac are about 25 bucks per humbucker but this site sells alot of there parts a little cheaper about 16 bucks per bucker .anybody buy these parts .how is the sound ,and how is the quality ?
http://www.guitarpartsusa.com/cat--G...pplies--MAIN22

[Possum]

They have some cool parts no one else carries. I use some of their stuff on certain pickups. All I can say is try them out and see how it goes....

[tonedeciple]

I recently bought a cheap $15 set of brand new humbuckers off ebay that I rewound to my own spec's.

[Possum]

Thats fine as long as you buy the same pickups if you want to get the same tone you did before. A humbucker is not a humbucker. Bobbins are not all the same, bobbin design is a tone factor, the steels and baseplate materials etc. are not all the same, so if you eventually buy a StewMac kit its not going to sound like your rebuilt Ebaybucker. Just FYI

GuitarParts USA seems to be the only ones left selling brass soap bar baseplates, what a bummer, AllParts doesn't seem to have them anymore, Mojos are all nickel silver, kinda wrong for a soap bar 70's era.....

[tonedeciple]

Originally Posted by Possum

Thats fine as long as you buy the same pickups if you want to get the same tone you did before.

I totally agree. You have to do a bit of research before you commit. I was looking to wind an approximation of a DiMarzio Super Distortion. The pickups I bought off ebay were fairly close in that they have ceramic mags, adjustable hex set screws and brass baseplates. They were just wound way too hot. So I rewound with AWG 44 enamel wire to 6300 turns, which gave me a DCR of 12-13k. If you're planning to do something really tricky, you'd have to rely on a lot of luck to find the right combination on ebay. But it is a great way to learn the craft without spending too much or having to source parts from numerous companies.

[David Schwab]

Originally Posted by tonedeciple

So I rewound with AWG 44 enamel wire to 6300 turns, which gave me a DCR of 12-13k.

44? Are you sure about that? My notes on the DP100 say about 7,000 turns of 43 AWG.

The Duncan JB uses 44.

[tonedeciple]

Originally Posted by David Schwab

44? Are you sure about that? My notes on the DP100 say about 7,000 turns of 43 AWG.

The Duncan JB uses 44.

I followed your advice from another thread posted on 1/21/09:

SDHB

DiMarzio (model) DP-100 (wire gauge) 0.054 (turns per coil - corrected) 6256 (original count) 6500

13.68K

My wire is .050, which doesn't sound right for awg 44. All I could get on the bobbin was a max of 6,400 turns. However, the DCR came out to 12.4, which I think will sound better.

[David Schwab]

Originally Posted by tonedeciple

I followed your advice from another thread posted on 1/21/09:

SDHB

DiMarzio (model) DP-100 (wire gauge) 0.054 (turns per coil - corrected) 6256 (original count) 6500

13.68K

Oh yeah, that's from that Japanese website. I'm not sure where I got the other info from... I think someone posted it here.

I think they use 43 though.

My wire is .050, which doesn't sound right for awg 44. All I could get on the bobbin was a max of 6,400 turns. However, the DCR came out to 12.4, which I think will sound better.

44 AWG is .05 mm.

The Duncan JB is about 6,800 turns of 44, so you probably just didn't have enough tension.

[tonedeciple]

Originally Posted by David Schwab

Oh yeah, that's from that Japanese website. I'm not sure where I got the other info from... I think someone posted it here.

Funny how the internet is supposed to enlighten us. That's why I like this forum. It's the only source I trust when it comes to pickups. It'll be interesting to see what my customer thinks about the pups I wound for him. He wanted the Super Distortion sound, but I think it's going to sound more like a detuned JB with a ceramic mag. Unfortunately, the guy lives in Sweden, so if he doesn't like them he'll have to ship them back. If that's the case, I'll use them in one of my own guitar builds as I think they'll sound great.