{"id":529,"date":"2013-12-10T21:08:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T01:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danharrisdesign.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2013-12-10T21:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T01:28:19","slug":"and-it-is-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danharrisdesign.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"…and it is alive."},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a ton of trouble getting the pickups to work well! \u00a0I really didn’t want to drill holes in the beautiful thuya burl pickup covers, but no matter what I tried I couldn’t get the pickups to sound good without getting the strings closer to the magnetic field. \u00a0I finally ended up drilling holes for 12 alnico magnets in each pickup. \u00a0I made bobbins from maple and used alnico 2 magnets in the bridge and alnico 5’s at the neck. \u00a0The neck pickup has 2x 5000 windings and the bridge has 2x 5500.<\/p>\n

Strangely, even though I have 10,000+ winds on each pickup, I’m getting a sound very much like a Strat from these pickups.<\/p>\n

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one of four maple bobbins…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I tried many different styles of pickup- blades, stacked-<\/p>\n

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-many attempts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also spent a lot of time making knobs for this guitar. \u00a0I had a couple of ideas in mind, but once I tried them I was disappointed by the look:<\/p>\n

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lots of failed knobs to go with the failed pickups.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a ton of trouble getting the pickups to work well! \u00a0I really didn’t want to drill holes in the beautiful thuya burl pickup covers, but no matter what I tried I couldn’t get the pickups to sound good without getting the strings closer to the magnetic field. \u00a0I finally ended up drilling holes … <\/p>\n

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