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So after a bunch of practice, I believe I've finally wound my first legitimate set of blade-pole bass humbuckers. There's this wonderful tingling feeling I get when I look at the shiny mirror-like surface of the coil all perfectly aligned and sparkling in the light. It's empowering! So all is well with the winding.
However, I'm getting different readings for each coil. I noticed that one of the bobbins is just ever so slightly shorter than the other so perhaps this could have contributed to the difference. The slightly shorter one reads 10k exactly while the other is 9.6k. Both coils were wound to 9500 turns with the same tension setting. Of course I understand that when hand winding it's probably unlikely that 2 pickups would be exactly identical, but what sort of margin of error between pickups is acceptable? Can I still expect to get a balanced hum-cancelling effect if I use these 2 coils together?
However, I'm getting different readings for each coil. I noticed that one of the bobbins is just ever so slightly shorter than the other so perhaps this could have contributed to the difference. The slightly shorter one reads 10k exactly while the other is 9.6k. Both coils were wound to 9500 turns with the same tension setting. Of course I understand that when hand winding it's probably unlikely that 2 pickups would be exactly identical, but what sort of margin of error between pickups is acceptable? Can I still expect to get a balanced hum-cancelling effect if I use these 2 coils together?
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