Benedetto B-6 rebuild.

[jack briggs]

Right, those are some serious chunks of steel in the cores. Makes me feel less silly about the fat steel blades I used in my first pickups (which I think ended up in the 5H range). Dark, but the lower windings probably help avoid the muddiness that should be expected. That was my problem: I wound em too hot.

Jason -

I was reviewing a Charlie Bar I wound a few weeks ago. Modelling a P90 but with a 3/16" 1018 steel bar polepiece and only 9500 turns of 42SPE I got an inductance of 9.23H @120hz with A4 mags!. Kinda blows the old soapbar out of the water....

cheers,

[Jason Rodgers]

Snap! I thought that sort of inductance was something you wanted to avoid. Guess I don't know what I don't know: I suppose "iron loading," like any ingredient in the pickup building recipe, can be a little or a lot!