I recently noticed that stewart-macdonald recently introduced pickup kits for telecaster. I've been meaning to replace the pickups in my Tele for a while now, and this seems to be an interesting posssibility. However, after reading the instructions, I want to make sure that it's practical for a (for lack of a better term)regular person to make pickups. Also, can these kits produce quality pickups? Does anyone have any experience with Stew-Mac pickup kits?
There are 2 concerns that I have about such a kit. The first is that the magnets need to be magnetised - that brings in the distinct possibility of unevenly magnetised pole-pieces. The second is that a pickup requires over 7000 turns of coil wire to get anywhere near the values you're looking for - you're not going to like doing that by hand.
There is also the point that a good pickup is wax potted - they don't mention that, although it's not too hard to do.
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Well, as far as the 7000 turns of wire, i'm figuring that I could rig up some sort of setup with a drill or something. Magnetising has been my main worry. Is there a way to measure the magnetic charge of the polepieces? Also, as far as wax potting goes, I know that people on this website have done it before, so it can't be too hard. How exactly do you pot pickups?
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OK, potting seems do-able. Can anything else think of any problems I might have?
I'd also like to know about the quality of these pickups...
