I’m experimenting with winding a set of pickups for my Strat clone with bar magnets glued to the bottom. How should I wind my pickups to be humbucking in the 2 and 4 position?
In 1973 while working on Tottenham Court Road at The Fender Soundhouse in London I started doing custom work with amp designer and repairman Ron Roka. Ron was designing amp circuits and I was experimenting with many custom pickup designs and circuits. I customized 3 way Centralab switches and made them into 5 ways and experimented with tapped pickups. As I got more and more into custom pickups I decided to experiment with the possibilities using a Strat harness. I would reverse wind and remagnetize the middle pickup on Strats to make them humbucking in the 2 & 4 position. This is pretty basic when starting from scratch and you’ll need a way to reverse the magnetism on the middle pickup. Using bar magnets is quite simple as they are placed on the bottom of the pickup and can be flipped over to reverse the magnetic polarity. Rod pole magnets are more difficult to remagnetize unless you have the proper equipment to do so. Providing you have a coil winder and a spool of 42 or 43 gauge magn
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