Pickup Makers FAQ

[David King]

Hey here is our FAQ sticky -shall we populate it with info?

Wire Vendors:

• BAE Wire & Insulation BAE Wire & Insulation, Inc.
• Bridgeport Insulated Wire Company Bridgeport Insulated Wire, Co. : Home :
• Elektrisola, Inc Elektrisola - Manufacturer of Fine Enamelled Copper Wire
• Essex Group Home Page
• HM Wire International, Inc Ultra Fine, Magnet Wire, Stainless Steel Wire, Flat Plating, Copper Flat Wire, Ribbon Wire, Aluminum Magnet Wire, Extrusions, Rectangular Wire, Fine Wire and Litz Wire Manufacturer | HM Wire International, Inc.
• MWS Wire Industries Copper Wire Manufacturer, Specialty Wire Manufacturer
• Nexans Magnet Wire USA Nexans Energy USA - Nexans
• Rea Wire Inc. Home
• Weico Wire Weico Wire, Cable & Tubing
• Wirenetics Whitmor/Wirenetics
• OTS WIRE OTS Wire Products Page

Magnet Vendors:

• Bunting Magnetics Bunting Magnetics » Home
• Arnold Magnetics Untitled Page
• Allstar Magnetics AllStarMagnetics.com | Home
• Magnetic Hold Inc. Magnetic Hold, Inc.
• Master Magnetics Magnets - Master Magnetics, Inc.
• OTS wire OTS Wire Products Page
• Addiction-FX Addiction-FX Guitar and Sound items
• Firebird Magnets; firebird items - Get great deals on Alnico 2.05 Magnets Ceramic8, Alnico 2.05 Magnets Alnico 5 items on eBay Stores!

Parts Vendors:
Bobbins, covers and other small parts.

• Mojo Mojotone.com - The Best source for Vintage Amp Parts, Cabinets, Guitar Parts, Bass Parts, and Pickup Parts -- comprehensive parts dealer
• Montreux Montreux -- comprehensive parts dealer
• Guitar Parts USA Guitar Pickup Parts & Rewinding Supplies - Guitar Parts USA
• Allparts Pickup Covers | Pickup Rings | Pickup Parts | Allparts.com
• Guitar Nucleus Guitar Nucleus Guitar Parts - Guitar & Bass Pickups
• Guitar Jones Got Guitar Parts? : Guitar Jones USA
• Addiction-FX Addiction-FX Guitar and Sound items - Get great deals on Humbucker Bobbins, Pole Screws items on eBay Stores!
• STEWMAC.COM : Pickups: Parts
• brass eyelets: http://www.spaenaur.com/view_pdf.asp?Page=M49
• tin plated eyelets 24 Keystone Electronics Mounting Hardware

Forbon Sources: (aka Vulcanized fibre, Fish paper)

• Vulcanized Fibre: Vulcanex - A Superior Vulcanized Fibre ($300 minimum order)
• OTS Wire Products Page
• Products EIS Sells Serve Electronic, Electrical and Industrial Work
• Stewart Mac Donald STEWMAC.COM : Bobbin Flatwork Material
• McMaster-Carr McMaster-Carr 8652K74, 8652K73

Technical References:

[David King]

http://pickupedia.info/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.provide.net/~cfh/pickups.html (All about Fender pickups)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_%28music%29

http://www.lollarguitars.com/Articles.htm (Jason Lollar)

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...quently-asked/

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guita...nstruction.txt (Winding pickups on a record player)

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guita...ric.theory.txt

[SkinnyWire]

Winders-n-stuff:

http://designed2wind.alphalink.com.au/contents.html

Dummy coil stuff (don't think I actually read through all this - looks interesting):

http://www.blueshawk.info/pickups.htm

[mick]

You might add mojo musical supply (NC I think)...to the list , great parts and prices..

Mick

[DrStrangelove]

You might add mojo musical supply
Mick

Done.

-the immoderator

[Triad]

No sellers in Europe? I fear to mess up with inches and millimeters...

[David Schwab]

I fear to mess up with inches and millimeters...

Conversion -mm-inch & inch - mm calculator

[Triad]

David... thanx a lot but if I buy magnets with diameter in inches I'll also need drill bits with the same measurements as I make my own flatwork...

[David Schwab]

Lately I measure a lot of stuff in mm. So it's handy to switch between the two.

[Triad]

Sure... but the problem is still there

[David Schwab]

Sure... but the problem is still there

It's not a problem here... I buy bits in either.

[Triad]

I'll check for drilling bits in inches.
Anyway... no european source for magnets and wire?
I'm a fan of your work, if you have 2 spare minutes I'd like to read your comment on my latest topic (going OT now, sorry!).

[David King]

Pickups-Windings-Magnets... and the Guitar Became Electric. by Mario Milan, Hal Leonard publications. Historical reference.

Animal Magnetism by Erno Zwann

The Guitar Pickups Handbook by Dave Hunter

"The Ancient Order of the Mystic Magnetic Pickup" white paper by Hartley Peavey
http://www.peavey.com/support/techno.../chapter_5.pdf

[belwar]

Nice peavy link. I would recommend downloading it, and attaching it to your post incase the weblink changes. There is no mention in the document that it can't be reposted without permission blah blah blah.

[Magnut]

I noticed that by replacing the number "5" in the link mentioned there are other things to read. Chapter 6 is about tubes. Just thought I would mention it. I like to snoop!

[Sock Puppet]

There's a really useful converter here:

EngNet - EngNet Tools - Unit Converter, Unit Conversion Application, Conversion Table, Metric Unit Conversion

Windows only by the looks of it.

Rob.

[bfhoo]

Anyway... no european source for magnets and wire?

Bobbins, rods magnets and such don't weight much, you could order them from US or anywhere you want.
But wire is a problem: You could find poly easily, but how about PE and Formvar?
Europeans, where do you buy it?

[Steve A.]

Here is my collection of U.S. Patents in PDF form, most of them dealing with pickups:

Index of /new/misc/patents

One of those tedious projects that kept me out of trouble...

Steve Ahola
The Blue Guitar

[ShannonH]

...is also bustedaxe.com. Same parts, same prices. I've had a lot of trouble with guitarpartsusa.com website, so I called and this was the site they gave me.

[Ludus]

Bobbins, rods magnets and such don't weight much, you could order them from US or anywhere you want.
But wire is a problem: You could find poly easily, but how about PE and Formvar?
Europeans, where do you buy it?

It's not true. Pickup parts for states outside US is possible to get from StewMac but others from sticky doesn't offer it, even they had no wish to discuss about it!? I can't wait StewMac to start billing by PayPal. They are friendly, they share advices free of charges, I got plenty advices personally just for my issues... other parts sellers are too proud to sell outside States or simply earn a lot of money in domestic traffic. Sad.

[KinkyWinks]

BustedAxe.com and GuitarPartsUSA.com are the same company. We are not trying to keep this a seceret. The software used to run GP USA is 11 years old and starting to give us problems. BustedAxe is using, what we hope will be our new software. So far the only thing we don't like about the new software is the Discount Code Word is not available. On GP USA if you don't use your code word for over 90 days it goes away.
On shipping outside of the USA, we did for several years and lost about 70% of all packages shipped. Canada being the exception, I think it lost 80% to 90% of them. We just could not take the loss involved. We keep expanding our pickup parts because no one else really seems to want to handle all of them. There is not a lot of money in selling them but we like nickels and dimes and we will take all we can get.

I built and repaired guitars for many years but never wound pickups. I don't have a problem with my customers telling me what I need to stock. In some cases I just can't get what they want but when I find it, I get it.

Dennis Antel

[Ludus]

I live in small Europeans state and in past ten years I ordered and got a lot of things from USA, UK, Germany, Austria and even Beijing from China! I ordered big things like Gibson Explorer with HSC, flying V, Dean ML...Marshall combo...up to pickups, pots, capacitors and Stratocaster neck plate! Nothing of them haven't been lost! Gibson tuners took 5 week in last winter to arrive here, seller refund me as he thought that package is lost but next week package appeared in my house and I made re-payment Big problem with orders and buyers is that seller or buyer tray to earn extra money on cheap shipping ways. I don't buy nothing by using USPS International mail, only USPS Priority, Express or FedEx/UPS/DHL for bigger stuff. On this way both sides are protected. Why not to pay a few coins more and have quiet sleep!?
I don't like to buy anything from Germany as many sellers there try to earn money on extra impudent high rate of shipping cost: my state is on half way between Germany and Greece but shipping to my country is twice more than shipping to Greece! BTW, I like more to pay all cost to US seller and again ist's many times cheaper than from EU-rope. Sad but true.

[JaimeC]

Just to add a couple of wire vendors in the UK/Europe:

wires.co.uk - specialist in craft wire, knitted craft wire, silver wire, enamelled copper, resistance wires, stainless steel, plated wires and many more!

and

Brocott - Electronic Modules, Electronic DIY Edu Kits, Enamelled Winding Wire, Advanced Towing Systems

[kurtdaniel]

nice thread.. very helpful links.. i tried to order in Guitar Parts USA Guitar Pickup Parts & Rewinding Supplies - Guitar Parts USA.. for parts to be used on my classical guitar.. hope they do well..

[DoctorX]

Some other technical references:

Don Tillman -- Articles

Response Effects of Guitar Pickup Position and Width

Response Effects of Guitar Pickup Mixing

Pickup Response Demonstration Applet

others...

http://lib.tkk.fi/Dipl/2002/urn007413.pdf

http://online.physics.uiuc.edu/cours...sis_Fall09.pdf

[mat]

hi guys, i' m looking for alnico 8 magnets and PE wire, where i can find its in europe?