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[ScottA]

Item # FS-1056, 0.093" Black Fibre Sheet on ESPE Mfg. Co., Inc.

I know this a very old thread. I found this source for material that is vulcanized.

These guys are good. They'll laser cut for you, too.

[angelodp]

Zexcoil will sell pre-cut blanks? Could not find that info?

[Stadler Guitars]

Not bad. In a pinch I will sometimes grab some of the kid's construction paper and slather some pages with gorilla glue (the poly stuff that foams where not clamped) and clamp it between a board and my bench over night. I can make it in any thickness needed, it machines easily, will take an eyelet and will hold up to some quick soldering and wax potting. Green and yellow laminate is my favorite color.

[ScottA]

Zexcoil will sell pre-cut blanks? Could not find that info?

Huh?

I don't sell them. I buy them from ESPE.

[angelodp]

Oh.... ok... got that backwards

Cheers.

PS your pickups are very cool.

[ScottA]

Oh.... ok... got that backwards

Cheers.

PS your pickups are very cool.

Thanks.

It's funny, though. I was actually thinking about maybe supplying this stuff at one point. I thought I had a good direct line to a factory, but it turned out to be unreliable so I didn't want to get into it (I'm amazed at some vendors' ineptitude with communications and follow-up sometimes). This area used to be a hot bed of manufacturing vulcanized fibre, and there's still a little of it around.

This old mill building is just down the road from my house:

[rjb]

In a pinch I will sometimes grab some of the kid's construction paper and slather some pages with gorilla glue (the poly stuff that foams where not clamped) and clamp it between a board and my bench over night. I can make it in any thickness needed, it machines easily, will take an eyelet and will hold up to some quick soldering and wax potting. Green and yellow laminate is my favorite color.

I'm a little dense. Are you saying you make a glue sandwich with paper "bread"?

[angelodp]

A little off topic, but... Scott, can you talk a bit about your pickup designs... or point to a thread that does. Is your noiseless design proprietary.

That building would make a great headquarters for a guitar building operation.... dreaming here.

[rhgwynn]

A little off topic, but... Scott, can you talk a bit about your pickup designs... or point to a thread that does. Is your noiseless design proprietary.

That building would make a great headquarters for a guitar building operation.... dreaming here.

It's not original per se, but Scott has the education, expertise, and experience that has enabled him to create a design that works quite well. You'll have to wait for him to tell you if he has any aspects of that design patented or not.

-Rob

[ScottA]

It's not original per se, but Scott has the education, expertise, and experience that has enabled him to create a design that works quite well. You'll have to wait for him to tell you if he has any aspects of that design patented or not.

-Rob

Thanks, Rob. It is original, though. Nobody else has done anything quite like this. People have done poly-coil pickups, but we're doing a few unique things with the design. Some are apparent, some are not.

A little off topic, but... Scott, can you talk a bit about your pickup designs... or point to a thread that does. Is your noiseless design proprietary.

That building would make a great headquarters for a guitar building operation.... dreaming here.

Well, it's easy enough to find the patents that are already out there. And there are a few, and yes the design is proprietary. We have multiple aspects of the design covered with issued patents and I have more IP in process.

There are a couple of threads here that have some good info. Just search Zexcoil, it's not a huge list of stuff.

I haven't actually talked in detail (except what I've written in the patent literature) about the designs. I will be doing more shortly, though.

I think most people here have a pretty good idea what's going on under the covers of our stuff, from a layout perspective anyway, but I'm constantly amazed that most people generally don't. One thing we do one-on-one (like in a booth at a show) is bring an unpotted pickup and show people what's going on under the cover. I'd say 75% of people have a physical reaction when we do this, their heads literally snap back and they go, "whoa"! I have fun doing this actually. You can talk all day with the covers on; "one-coil-per-string, blah, blah, blah" and people's eyes glaze over...then you take the cover off and they instantly "get it". They grab their buddy..."dude, look at this thing"!

A couple of things will be happening going forward. 1) we're going to start showing a little more about what's going on under the covers and 2) I'll be talking more about the technical aspects of how we model and target tonality. Stay tuned on timing on the first one. Timing on the second will depend somewhat on what the patent office does with some things I have in the queue.

[angelodp]

Thanks Scott, I found your various articles and have studied up. Brilliant work. Sound clips are super as well. I am eager to see and read more about whats under the hood. Much appreciated.

Best Ange

[David Schwab]

This old mill building is just down the road from my house:

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I love old factory buildings! I'm not sure why either.

[David Schwab]

Not bad. In a pinch I will sometimes grab some of the kid's construction paper and slather some pages with gorilla glue (the poly stuff that foams where not clamped) and clamp it between a board and my bench over night. I can make it in any thickness needed, it machines easily, will take an eyelet and will hold up to some quick soldering and wax potting. Green and yellow laminate is my favorite color.

I've made bobbins from a manila folder and super glue.

[restorationad]

So I know I am probably not helping (I am always late to the party ) but I have had pretty good luck with Garolite XX from McMaster-Carr

These pictures are right after I did the test fit.

[David Schwab]

Garolite is good stuff. I have used black paper Garolite for fingerboards.