What are “asymmetrical” or “offset” coils? And how do they influence the tone of a humbucker. Very simply, both terms mean that one of the humbucker coils is wound hotter than the other. There are a few reasons this is done. Firstly, it makes the pickup brighter. I can tune a pickups’ frequency with this […]
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What is scatter winding, scatter wound, hand winding and hand wound? I boast about scatter winding. Many winders do and do so to such an extent that it’s becoming a cliche. And that’s a damn shame because scatter winding actually is something special. A machine wound pickup is exactly that. A machine spins the pickup […]