Jazzmaster, flatwork, pattern, properties.

[vavas]

Hello everybody. First time post.

Huhh.. I don't get it. How much crucial is for tone that the flatwork on a guitar pickup was made with different materials?.

I mean, I understand that old fender was made with the vulcanized fiber known as forbon.

Uhmmm... I guess I need some further reading but my guess is that the material affects somehow the magnetic properties/pattern?.

[big_teee]

I have made strat type pickups out of different insulative materials.
IMO Couldn't tell a lot of difference as long as everything else is the same.
As long as the wire is wound on top of the rod magnets(I do tape or dip it first).
If you use a plastic bobbin, where the wire is not near the rod magnets, don't expect it to sound the same.
I expect these same things will apply to the jazzmaster flatwork, just like it does to strat or tele pickups.
Mojo has all the parts you need.
Good Luck,
Terry

[vavas]

Thanks for the reply big_teee. I was hoping a more scientific? explanation, hahaha. I mean with some stats graphic charts or whatever.

I'm thinking on later try to build one pickup myself but I trying to do it from scratch, out of nothing. I think I will experiment with a nice fiberboard I have just found... looks better than the book cover (!) I was planning using for flatwork.

Now I think that some measures could come handy. Specifically:

- Inner space between boards (which seems pretty logical to affect tone)
- Rod magnet diameter and lenght of each pole.
- Number of turns and size and type of wire.

I think I have more or less everything at hand except the rod magnets... are jazzmaster rod magnets the same as in strats?.

... I think I will have to change the thread title, or maybe create another thread, I don't know I apologize if I am doing wrong here.

[big_teee]

Here the Seymour Duncan sjm2
I have never wound a Jazz Master pickup.
If I was going to, I would start with the stock available flatware.
I would try to duplicate what is available, then I would start modifying from there.
I am always experimenting with different Humbuckers, but I started basic.
Then I started trying different magnets, different winding patterens, different wire, etc.
You can do the same with the stock jazz master flatware. Just by going to different wire types, and amount of wire, and magnet gauss the combos on most pickups are endless.
I will turn you over to the experts that are good at talking theory.
I just try to wind a decent pickup!
Later,
Peace, Rock On!
Terry