It might have been a prior rewind though. I have seen one with no bobbin at all, just a taped coil. I haven't seen any made of wood, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. The core is machined out of nylon or something similar. (btw, I already wrote this once, but it timed out on me, logged me out, and I lost it. OK so here is the info I wanted to add to the last post. I'm going to continue this in the next post before I time out on this one. you can see the foam and the mounting bar in the pics. I didn't see nuts on this one, there was a machined keeper, it's threaded. the screws are different lengths for the neck and bridge, longer for the bridge. I think copper tape would be fine for the same job. the foil shielding is there you can see it in the pics, and it is brass. the wire has been Awg #44 SPN on all the examples I have seen. I've used the heavy vacuum formed packages off of things like batteries or ink cartridges, (the kind you have to use scissors to get into) as a suitable substitute.
The top and bottom of the bobbin was made of clear plastic - kind of like the plastic used for the rear windows in convertible tops. it was black and I'll give the core dimensions later in this post. on these, the bobbin core was machined out of nylon or some similar plastic. Here's the bridge, which I was able to repair but I had to fabricate a new foam part for the bottom, which just crumbled to pieces. Here's the neck, which I had to rewind, but the bottom part was able to be saved. Note: these are both the same size, camera angle makes one look smaller. First here's a top and bottom view of the pair, after repairs. Here's the pics, then I will try to answer your questions. It's not like seeing in the flesh, but it's as close as we can come digitally. Since they are still in my shop I took some photos. Obvious observations? The bobbin does look like a P90 bobbin from afar but I can't be sure, having never seen one of those in the flesh.Well, as luck might have it, I just finished rewinding one of these and repairing it's mate. Gives a good sense of how much the amount of winds affects the tone.ĭoes any of you guys have anything more accurate than my Mr. The M3 pickups are tapped for roughly 7K/12K output, and you can hear how much brighter the low power setting is. Talking first, actual playing begins around 1:45 Not sure if you've seen my demo of M3's Mosrite style pickups from five years ago on youtube. This mid heavy character is what I like about Mosrite pickups - you can turn up the treble and presence on the amp to get bright attack on the low strings without ice-pick brightness on the high strings. Interestingly, I've found Mosrite pickups to be relatively mid heavy compared to hot pickups like Dynasonics where the poles are magnets. You're probably right about the coil shape, but given the wide range of manufacturing techniques used by Mosrite, there's not a specific coil diameter that makes the sound. Also the webadmin for so I guess you could say I like Mosrites. Obvious observations? The bobbin does look like a P90 bobbin from afar but I can't be sure, having never seen one of those in the flesh.Įpizootics, yes, the same guy. the bottom of the pickup is covered with foam, on top of which lays the height adjustment metal mounting bar, both of which are drowned in epoxy, which seals the pickup inside its cover forever and keeps things from moving around too much.ĭoes any of you guys have anything more accurate than my Mr. the screws are fitted onto nuts that act as the magnet spacers (does this mean the bobbin core itself is not tapped?) there seems to be a layer of insulating foil between the bobbin and the magnets for shielding they use a thick wooden bobbin core, much bigger than the bobbin spacer found on p90s I know there are a few types of Mosrite pickups out there, but from what I gathered, he wants the classic single-coils that are wound to around 10-11K with Phillips-style pole screws. I dug into the depth of this board but didn't find anything either. I told him, "yeah, sure, they can't be that complicated to make", then realized there was very little technical data on the internet. My bandmate asked me to wind him a couple of Mosrite single coils to fit onto the Frankenstein strat I built for him.