Boston Blues pickup wire???

[ken]

Hello...

I saw in a magazine ad that GFS? was selling something called a 'Boston Blues'
pickup with light blue coil wire insulation. Any of you know what insulation this is
using? I've never seen this one before.

Thank you,
Ken

[NightWinder]

Most likely, solderon,poly nylon. Planet Enginers have any color you want. Ah, the hype. They have pink too, and is really pretty

[corduroyew]

I've seen blue nylon wire insulation before. I think Curtis Novak has a pickup with blue insulation on his website. I'm pretty sure he said it was nylon insulation over aluminum wire.

[David Schwab]

I've seen blue nylon wire insulation before. I think Curtis Novak has a pickup with blue insulation on his website. I'm pretty sure he said it was nylon insulation over aluminum wire.

Aluminum? Wow... what would the resistance of that be?

[ken]

If I remember right, aluminum has about 3 times the resistance of copper.

I used to live in a house built in the '50s that had aluminum wiring in it, and the
wiring all had to be removed and redone because the wire oxidized and there was a fire hazard.

Ken

[madialex]

If I remember right, aluminum has about 3 times the resistance of copper.

I used to live in a house built in the '50s that had aluminum wiring in it, and the
wiring all had to be removed and redone because the wire oxidized and there was a fire hazard.

Ken

You would be correct. I was at my good friends house a little while back and was sleeping downstairs on the couch and awoke to a buzzing clicking sound and saw smoke and flames coming from where the wires went through the block outside to his workshop. It was the same crap wire. We had to cut it loose, trench and run all new wire to his shop, that is dangerous stuff.

[black_labb]

speaking of differeny materialed wires, what kind of effects would you expect from a different material with more resistance, or one with less (pickups wound in gold, great advertising potential) or even differnt copper alloys. would the resistance effect clarity and the length effect the output? i guess you can simulate this a fair amount using different gauged wires. would it effect inductance?

what did those aluminium coiled pickups sound like.

[rocket]

We had to cut it loose, trench and run all new wire to his shop, that is dangerous stuff.

It would require quite an expressive style of guitar playing to create a fire hazard in pickup, though :-]


I think soldering aluminum wire is no easy.

[David Schwab]

It would require quite an expressive style of guitar playing to create a fire hazard in pickup, though :-]

And you would have to play Smoke on the Water, or Burn, by Deep Purple...

[Ruel]

And you would have to play Smoke on the Water, or Burn, by Deep Purple...

Well, you could always say you that you wind the hottest pickups on earth.

[Zhangliqun]

And you would have to play Smoke on the Water, or Burn, by Deep Purple...

Or just plain ol' "On Fire" from early VH...

[Danelectron]

And you would have to play Smoke on the Water, or Burn, by Deep Purple...

Or just plain "Fire" by Arthur Brown.

[StarryNight]

I rewound a bass pickup recently that had green coil wire - very strange!

[Mark Hammer]

I've got a spool of nice green Electrisola #43. Pretty enough that you don't want to stick tape or a cover over it.

[David Schwab]

I dislike the color green on everything but plants. You can get magnet wire in any color you want though, even black. Green is fairly common.