HTS Manufacture Pickup 2

Wrap the poles with some insulation tape.

For this pickup we are going to hand wind it or as they say ""scatter wind"", its called scatter winding becuase we humans cannot lay a straight track, so it becomes a phrase, example my pickup is a scatter wound pickup.

I have applied some double sided tape onto our mount.

Attached the pickup.

Before winding, we lighly scrape the wire as its coated with a very fine film of poly lacquer.

By hand turning only, we wind on the first ten turns.

Then power it up and ""scatter wind"" it, love that phrase :).

After laying down 5000-6000 turns, on this one we have laid down 5600, we then lightly sand the end of the wire.

Wrap the coil again in insulation tape

Using the commercially available Alnico pole sizes, we alternate the sizes to achieve a uniform distance from the strings on all pickup poles.

Then assemble the front and back plate with the determined Alnico pole lengths.

This is a commercial winding machine, it winds a pickup in around 3 minutes, these are great for bulk manufacturing, we only use something this if we get a large order in.

We feed a wire up through our guide hole

Again, customisation, we have a 9.5 radius string projected above the 9.5 radius fingerboard of this guitar.

Solder it in place.

Using a multimeter, we can confirm that the pickup works.