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Anybody got dimentions for Pickup Bobbin?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 4:35 pm
by cmiller0034
I'm building Pups for my Ventures clone Guitar. Does anyone have dimensions for the Wood bobbin that the wire wraps around? And/0r how many turns of wire for the Neck/bridge pickups? ANY info would be well... quite helpful.
Thanks Folks.
(this pic is for a Bass but you get the general idea)

Re: Anybody got dimentions for Pickup Bobbin?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 11:31 pm
by maxkat
66 Ventures bass bobbin:
height: 11.5mm
width: 10.5mm
length: 55mm
This may differ a little as the bobbin is crudely handmade. 10,000 turns of AWG43 will result in around 10kOhms – so I'd put 11,000–12,000 turns on the bridge PU and a little less on the neck PU.
I like your metric set square

Cheers, Max
Re: Anybody got dimentions for Pickup Bobbin?
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 1:31 am
by cmiller0034
maxkat wrote:66 Ventures bass bobbin:
height: 11.5mm
width: 10.5mm
length: 55mm
This may differ a little as the bobbin is crudely handmade. 10,000 turns of AWG43 will result in around 10kOhms – so I'd put 11,000–12,000 turns on the bridge PU and a little less on the neck PU.
I like your metric set square

Cheers, Max
Thankyou Max for the effort. But I think we got our wires crossed.

I used the Bass pic of the bobbin because its the only one I could find. I am
building a 6 string guitar. I was looking for numbers on those
NOT the bass. But, hey if anyone is building a Bass pup now they got the info right.
Anyone else?
Re: Anybody got dimentions for Pickup Bobbin?
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 2:08 am
by maxkat
I did get that

But the dimensions are always the same. Except for the number of holes

Re: Anybody got dimentions for Pickup Bobbin?
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 12:02 pm
by cmiller0034
maxkat wrote:I did get that

But the dimensions are always the same. Except for the number of holes

WHAAAAt?!! That's weird. Are you saying the only difference between a Bass and a 6-string Ventures model are the string gauges, scale length and circuitry? Or are the guts the same as well?

Re: Anybody got dimentions for Pickup Bobbin?
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 12:48 pm
by maxkat
I'd say yes – at least the 1972 Mark I bass circuitry I have is the same as that of my Ventures II and Celebrity

Re: Anybody got dimentions for Pickup Bobbin?
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 1:03 pm
by cmiller0034
maxkat wrote:I'd say yes – at least the 1972 Mark I bass circuitry I have is the same as that of my Ventures II and Celebrity

Thanks Max!
Re: Anybody got dimentions for Pickup Bobbin?
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 1:53 am
by cmiller0034