Rewiring Pickups

Post by Bg » Tue May 17, 2005 10:23 am

ha, luxury!

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:32 am

LOL - I didn't even have a shoebox to sleep in...

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:40 pm

and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah..

artyone · Post by **artyone** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:52 pm

I haven't got around to it yet but I'm thinking about doing some inductors for tone duties.First off I will wind one slug of alnico with wire and see if I can get 500mH and see what it acts like in a proprietary wah circuit.I'm not sure how the magnet is in a wah inductor but I think its a case that goes around the winding,like a pot,and its made from a ceramic but ,ROG,that idea of magnetising your own steel is quite interesting as if the coil was wound tighter at one end and looser at the other you'd then have a length of magnetic material that would be non linear in that the tighter end would have a tighter flux than the other and so...be more like the original super mojo inductors that had impurities cast in and exhibited a non linear flux density upon magnetising.
Also inductors would be the missing link in tone control as they are opposite to capacitors as regards frequency and in series with caps we have the ability to scoop or boost mids.
someday....

but one has to say that winding inductors is a very good lesson in patience and in a weird way,humility.Everyone should take a break from consumerism and have a go at creating magnetic field catchers.

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:31 pm

artyone - I had no way of measuring flux density at the time and it was highly likely that each pole piece had a different magnetic strength, but hell, it all worked. After all, I was playing through a 15W Dynachord amp....

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:39 pm

Arrrgh No! not the dreaded dynachord!! Loved Gelato's humour though - take your guitar to school indeed - if they did not shoot you for bringing the 'devils instrument' with you, then massive detentions until the next millenium would have been the order of the day. Why that act 'boy' is on a par with looking at a girl!!!.

On the other hand my dear old Father was far worse than Gelato imagines - he used to let us live so he had something to torture afresh each day - may the sick sod's soul rot screaming in Hell!

However, getting back to the variable flux inductor - surely the easiest way to arrange this would be to have the iron or ferrite core moveable so it could be slid inside and out of the winding bobbin? or am I missing something??

Yes you young uns don't know you're living - why socks that fit, condoms with room in them, cheap cars and errection pills that work!! disgusting I say!

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:13 pm

> condoms with room in them,

LOL - so when they say "get a room" they really mean get a Johnny?

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Fri May 20, 2005 11:00 am

Well I was thinking of those resovoir tips the modern rubbers have - the older condoms had no specific space for the 'lovejuice' to go to.

In the case you mention though, what then is a 'room with a view' - another way of getting a-head perhaps???

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Fri May 20, 2005 11:03 am

I can freely admit - I have never utilised the technology, so I'm therefore unfit to comment ...

Polar Bear · Post by **Polar Bear** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:30 pm

I never thought having a resovoir was so lucky. W00t.