Anyone use 42 Heavy?

[Mark Hammer]

Hmmm, now you've got me interested. I picked up a roll of PN155 Elektrisola #43 and #42 for $8 (Cdn) lb. The #43 is green. I'm trying a rewind of a Turser Tele bridge with that stuff first.

Redhouse,
Those pickups on the Strat are simply gorgeous. Where did you get the covers? I've never seen anything like them.

[David Schwab]

The color of the insulations are usually the temperature rating. Most of the rolls I have are red, but this roll is clear.

I wound another pickup, winding much slower so I could lay down the wire in a less scattered pattern, and tighter, and I got that to fit in the cover, but that doesn't help me with the bridge pickup, which has more turns.

So I ordered some more 42 from somewhere else.

I'm curious to hear this pickup.

[RedHouse]

...Redhouse,
Those pickups on the Strat are simply gorgeous. Where did you get the covers? I've never seen anything like them.

Thanks Mark.

They started out as Strat "lipstick-tube" pickup covers , then I flattened the tops with a makeshift die, then punched the holes.



(see more here: Punching Cover Holes)

The covers are made of chrome plated yellow brass. The 42H works well with these covers, you have to have a bit more treble and mids in your coil before you drop a metal cover over them, then everything comes out right.

Here's how they are supposed to look in a Strat (before alteration):

[David Schwab]

Hey Brad, you still didn't tell where you got those covers.

So I would a couple of pickups with the 42H, and I like what I hear. I actually would up two Jazz pickups.... but I had to wind them lower than normal, and also I changed the core... so I don't know which of the three changes made the biggest difference, and it might be a combination of all three.