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Hey y'all,
I'm building a guitar for a friend of mine. Long story short, he's had a long year but still found the time to help me out of my own dire stretches. I told him he had a 6-stringer coming his way. When I asked him about pickups, he said he wanted 'that surf clonk' and asked me about the Carvin AP-6.
Now, I knew about Joe Maphis but not much more. It seems the old AP6 had a P90-type construction, with ceramic magnets and a low DCR. I found pictures of the bobbin on the Mosrite forum:
Judging by the pictures and the 3.75 kOhms DCR, it looks like it's either a very loose wind or a thicker wire than AWG 42.
Ceramic magnets from those days would have been weaker than their modern counterpart, however it's kinda hard to find historical details of what grades were available at a certain time. Today's C5 and C8 are very close in terms of strength, and the latter seems to be a lot easier to find in guitar-friendly dimensions than the former anyway. I don't think the anisotropic C1 is what we're looking at here.
Does anyone have any info regarding those? My friend does not necessarily want a vintage-correct reproduction, he just wants something that will sound 'in that ball park', in his own terms.
I'm building a guitar for a friend of mine. Long story short, he's had a long year but still found the time to help me out of my own dire stretches. I told him he had a 6-stringer coming his way. When I asked him about pickups, he said he wanted 'that surf clonk' and asked me about the Carvin AP-6.
Now, I knew about Joe Maphis but not much more. It seems the old AP6 had a P90-type construction, with ceramic magnets and a low DCR. I found pictures of the bobbin on the Mosrite forum:
Judging by the pictures and the 3.75 kOhms DCR, it looks like it's either a very loose wind or a thicker wire than AWG 42.
Ceramic magnets from those days would have been weaker than their modern counterpart, however it's kinda hard to find historical details of what grades were available at a certain time. Today's C5 and C8 are very close in terms of strength, and the latter seems to be a lot easier to find in guitar-friendly dimensions than the former anyway. I don't think the anisotropic C1 is what we're looking at here.
Does anyone have any info regarding those? My friend does not necessarily want a vintage-correct reproduction, he just wants something that will sound 'in that ball park', in his own terms.
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