Best choice for homemade pickup?
- fzartvaark
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Best choice for homemade pickup?
I'm closing in on my first lapsteel and its time for a pickup..I just built a pickup winder and want to wind my own single coil..Looking for suggestions as to what magnets to use ( Alnico 2 vs. 5, steel?) I'm planning using c6 tuning looking for that clean country, hawaiian sound.
Re: Best choice for homemade pickup?
I use Alnico 5 1/4" by 3/4" in my single coils for the pedal steel I wind to around 14.5K and it sounds pretty good.
http://benrom.com/
21 BenRom pedal steel guitars, a Nash 112 and a 1967 TOS Milling machine with many cutters making one hell of a mess on the floor.
21 BenRom pedal steel guitars, a Nash 112 and a 1967 TOS Milling machine with many cutters making one hell of a mess on the floor.
Re: Best choice for homemade pickup?
I use alnico 5 "Vintsteel" 8 string single coil made by Billy Mostyn in Australia. I use these as a pair in stringmaster with a pickup blend pot. The bridge pickup is reverse wound and reverse polarity. Both are wound to about 8.7k ohms. Go too high e.g 10.9k and treble would be less. That's my thoughts and also John Tipka's as I once emailed him about pickups for 8 string laps. Billy also tends to agree.