Comments on: How to make a Humbucking Pickup for a Guitar https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-make-a-humbucking-pickup-for-a-guitar Blog by the guitarist Nacho Bellido Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:50:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lee A https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-113882 Lee A Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:50:54 +0000 http://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-113882 Thank you very much for all of this valuable information. It helped me get started winding my own pups. Crazy thing though...i bought a couple of epiphone les paul specials for 50 each. Real beaters. One has a set of pick ups that are identical to these you made from scratch. They are absolutely unique. Let me know where to send the pics. Its a crazy find. In Los Angeles. Thank you very much for all of this valuable information. It helped me get started winding my own pups. Crazy thing though…i bought a couple of epiphone les paul specials for 50 each. Real beaters. One has a set of pick ups that are identical to these you made from scratch. They are absolutely unique. Let me know where to send the pics. Its a crazy find. In Los Angeles.

]]> By: Teo Humar https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-104153 Teo Humar Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:23:07 +0000 http://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-104153 Arent coils supposed to be wound in different directions? So one CW and the otherone CCW? Arent coils supposed to be wound in different directions? So one CW and the otherone CCW?

]]> By: Pablo Martin Vazquez https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-52774 Pablo Martin Vazquez Wed, 09 Dec 2020 02:47:52 +0000 http://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-52774 Hi, thanks for this complete article, it´s been very helpful in clarifying some topics. If, by chance you can explain me the differencies between this and the johnny smith style, neck attached, I´ll be very grateful, though there isn´t much out there on the topic. Thanks again Hi, thanks for this complete article, it´s been very helpful in clarifying some topics. If, by chance you can explain me the differencies between this and the johnny smith style, neck attached, I´ll be very grateful, though there isn´t much out there on the topic. Thanks again

]]> By: JEFFY https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-49768 JEFFY Mon, 06 Jul 2020 02:01:51 +0000 http://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-49768 Hi Sir! Thanks for this Complete, more Complex explanation on Pickup DIY Building, my Question is, : (a) How pickup coils work On each winding Directions,? Magnetic polarity on pickups Windings? (b) reversed type humbucker pickups, installed on signature ibanez guitar models.. Thank you in advance sir.! Hi Sir! Thanks for this Complete, more Complex explanation on Pickup DIY Building, my Question is, : (a) How pickup coils work On each winding Directions,? Magnetic polarity on pickups Windings? (b) reversed type humbucker pickups, installed on signature ibanez guitar models..
Thank you in advance sir.!

]]> By: J T Jones https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-48927 J T Jones Sun, 03 May 2020 16:48:17 +0000 http://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-48927 It does not matter if they touch the base plate, the important part is that they touch the magnet so the slugs can pick up the vibrations from the strings. Whether or not the slugs and/or screws are grounded is kind of secondary. It does not matter if they touch the base plate, the important part is that they touch the magnet so the slugs can pick up the vibrations from the strings. Whether or not the slugs and/or screws are grounded is kind of secondary.

]]> By: Joaquim Queiros https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-46645 Joaquim Queiros Tue, 18 Feb 2020 15:59:02 +0000 http://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-46645 Muito completo e útil artigo sobre auto construção de pickups,com todos os tópicos que importam nestes casos. Muito obrigado e votos de muito sucesso em todas as vertentes musicais. Até breve Joaquim Queiros Muito completo e útil artigo sobre auto construção de pickups,com todos os tópicos que importam nestes casos.
Muito obrigado e votos de muito sucesso em todas as vertentes musicais.
Até breve
Joaquim Queiros

]]> By: Chris Morley https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-45452 Chris Morley Sat, 01 Feb 2020 02:41:26 +0000 http://theguitar-blog.com/?p=465#comment-45452 Hello John.............This is the most complete explanation i have seen of how a pickup is designed. However, no online forum i can find has yet been able to tell me a yes or no to: Do the pole slugs in a humbucker touch the baseplate or not. I have tested continuity on a humbucker and found mere wax between poles and baseplate. In one row four poles were in electrical contact and two not.... just bloody random in this case..... But how is it supposed to be? Contact or gap? I would be very grateful if you would be the one person to give me the answer to this, which to everyone else in the world seems a non-question. Hello John………….This is the most complete explanation i have seen of how a pickup is designed.
However, no online forum i can find has yet been able to tell me a yes or no to:

Do the pole slugs in a humbucker touch the baseplate or not. I have tested continuity on a humbucker and found mere wax between poles and baseplate. In one row four poles were in electrical contact and two not….
just bloody random in this case….. But how is it supposed to be? Contact or gap?
I would be very grateful if you would be the one person to give me the answer to this, which to everyone else in the world seems a non-question.

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