Formvar humbuckers, anyone?

[JGundry]

I did an 8.2K 42PE PAF style pickup on the Leesona 102 and a 8.2K heavy Formvar PAF style pickups with the same coil offset, wound on the Leesona 102... And the heavy Formvar pickup was a mud machine on the low end compared to the 42 PE pickup.

[Possum]

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Yeah its mostly because the coils are larger plus formvar seems to be a darker sounding insulation judging from the single black formvar I have and a neck pickup I wound with it. I did one with heavy on one coil and PE on the other it sounded OK, kinda confused, it didn't know what to be
This really brings into question the "formvar" Peter Green rewind on neck. I seriously doubt it was heavy formvar if it even WAS formvar at all. For all we know it was single 43 guage formvar, about the only thing that makes sense.....

[Electricdaveyboy]

Formvar Neck Pickup on Pickupmaker Showcase

Anybody wound some buckers with formvar? If so, how does the sound differ from PE?

Hello Zang,
yes you can hear a formvar neck position pickup in the video I posted on the showcase site- it is my Greeny Blues Set.
You shall not wind it to hot - means go for less windings than the regular PAF PE type pickup.
Cheers
david

[Possum]

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The problem with that is that the Peter Green neck pickup is reputed to be wound to 8.2K If you wind one with heavy formvar to that and put it in neck it would sound like mud. WCR is the source for that supposed PG specs. I suspect that pickup was wound with regular PE. We'll probably never know for sure....
Other possibilities are that it was wound with only one bobbin and maybe it was single formvar. I mean when a humbucker goes dead it usually is only ONE bobbin not both, right?

[Zhangliqun]

If it's that dark, it might make for some smoother sounding sub-8k bridge pu's. Hmmm....