Humbucker hookup wire

[JGundry]

This is the stripper I use. It is light weight and you can get a PTFE cutter for it also. The light weight and easy adjustment make it my favorite.

[David Schwab]

Klein 11065, Automatic Wire Stripper -Tefzel® and Teflon® Insulated Wire, 11065 |DynamiteTooLCo.com

Sorry about the link? Looking at more pictures I believe they are the similar to the ideal stripmaster and not your radio shack / GB /Erwin strippers

I used to have one of these years ago. It was my dad's. It was a nice stripper. Functionally I don't find any difference with the Kronus.

[Clint Searcy]

Boy, that old video gets around a lot. I have to say I've heard more crap about not putting tape over that joint than anything I have ever done. So much so that I now use shrink wrap on them even though none of the old pickups have ever failed.

Ok, back to singlehandedly destroying the boutique pickup industry with my lack of knowledge.

[Possum]

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Don't feel bad, Rickenbacker doesn't put tape over their magnet wire lead solder joints either, I was absolutely amazed to see that one. I used to use shrink wrap on bucker solder joints and thought paper was stupid, fact is paper takes up alot less space and quicker to use, so I do it old school way now....

[restorationad]

Boy, that old video gets around a lot. I have to say I've heard more crap about not putting tape over that joint than anything I have ever done. So much so that I now use shrink wrap on them even though none of the old pickups have ever failed.

Ok, back to singlehandedly destroying the boutique pickup industry with my lack of knowledge.

I have been using really small diameter heat shrink tubing... it causes a little bulge but hey its all fair in "rock and roll".

[automan]

I use tiny heat shrink tubing too

[LtKojak]

I have been using really small diameter heat shrink tubing... it causes a little bulge but hey its all fair in "rock and roll".

The whole rockn'roll industry is based on make the bulge noticeable... wait... were you still talking about p'ups...?

[David Schwab]

The whole rockn'roll industry is based on make the bulge noticeable... wait... were you still talking about p'ups...?

Zucchini and aluminum foil...

[restorationad]

Good to see you guys got it...

I have been getting my hookup wire from ALLPARTS but I just bought 20' from Mojo. It is all just 28awg shielded... I use about 1.5" stripped for pickup leads and really small heat shrink tubing and Low Acid Black paper tape from the art supply place in one of the threads around here. The only thing I haven't found is a good supplier for the fabric tape as I am still buying it from Stew Mac

[coconuts86]

I know this is an old topic, but I've found a brazilian pickup manufacturer using humbucker bobbins with eyelets (Cabrera Pickups). But I've no clue were he gets those bobbins... here are some images.

Does anyone has ever seen these bobbins elsewhere??? Any ideia where to buy them???

[David Schwab]

I would think the bobbins would melt if you put eyelets in them.

[David King]

Those look like the were hand poured into an open mold instead of injection molded. I bet they are casting polyurethane and the mold was silicone rubber.

[Jason Rodgers]

No, its not a secret. But I thought that you might need a bit of working out before, searching for the answer, before I’d just let you know
No seriously; yes, there are better ways IMHO. I used the bottom hole when I first got started because some years ago Stumac showed that in a FAQ (yeah, I started out with their kits...). But now I just wind the coils, tape he coils up with a fair amount of magnet wire protruding just under the tape on one end, trim the length of the magnet wire sticking out (around 1”/25mm, maybe a bit more) solder the hookup wire, take another piece of tape and tape one wire/joint on each side of the coil in such way that if you jank the hookup wire it will not pull off the delicate magnet wire. A bit hard to describe, but if you search for YT videos by Clint Searcy (spelling?) I believe he demonstrates that method. The “tuck a wire through the bottom hole - solder the magnet wire onto it – tape over the joint inside the bobbin – wind the coil with the hookup wire sticking out, finding some place to have the bottom hookup wire finding its way in the assembled pickup and still needing to tape up the other hookup wire” technique just don’t seems to make sense to me.
As for a source of hookup wire I would gladly have shared my source but, hey I’m on the other side of the pond. And I’m sure that it shouldn’t really be too hard to find a flexible (=multi strand) decent sized (=not thinner than say AWG 30 if you ask me, 28 is not a problem believe me), reasonable thin insulated wire.

This is an old topic, with basic pickup construction techniques, but good tricks. I'd like to try the coil winding method described here, and in Searcy's video, which eschews the buried start lead. My question is this: if you leave a length of start wire free before winding the coil, where do you tuck that little bit? Do you tape it down with some low tack tape off one end, like you'd do with a lead? How do you make sure it doesn't get tangled up and accidentally buried?

[Jason Rodgers]

This is the best pictorial step by step explanation of lead mounting (through the little hole) and winding that I've seen on the interwebs. When it comes to winding without a lead, do folks do something similar? Just a little bundle of magnet wire under a piece of tape?

[big_teee]

That looks like how you build a standard 4 wire humbucker.
Not my color code, I always use the SD color code so I can refer to SD wiring layouts.
I still use the through the hole method.
It is not as fast on the beginning, but much faster after the bobbin is wound.
I never did like the taped up glob of wire that I ended up with from the start lead.
Just whatever works for you.
I start my screws differently.
I use a tap in a cordless, and barely tap the 6 pole screw holes.
Makes everything much easier to assemble, IMO.
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