Beatles jokes, sling blade jokes, sketchy pickup experiments, dude this channel is like heaven

Great job, enjoy your humor. Amazing how much they get for pickups when they are really such simple science, thanks for showing us how.

Man, that P90 sounds nice! I love your non-counting approach to winding, too. Thanks for sharing.

I haven't seen all your videos yet, but so far this is the best sounding pickup I've heard!

A lot of heart and soul in that pick up!

Love the leopard skin EQ,  easy to use and effective. All in all it was a success I would say.

This is what guitar gear should be like! Rough n ready but sounding killer!

Making a P90 Pickup broken rules from a 2x4

Basic materials:

Reclaimed 2x4

Masonite for the table saw fence

Square, level, pencil

Bandsaw, sanding table, sanding belt

Hammer, superglue, tape

42-gauge magnet wire, coil winder (sewing machine)

Stratocaster pickup cover

Neodymium magnets (16 lb and 32 lb)

Minwax Fast-Dry polyurethane

Soy wax pellets

Step-by-step procedure

Wood preparation

Use a piece of masonite to set the table saw fence to the desired thickness for flatwork.

Cut the 2x4 to get book-matched veneer pieces.

Marking dimensions

Refer to a previous plan with the pickup measurements.

Using a square and level, mark:

Front and rear faces of the pickup

Centerline

Edges of the pole pieces

Marking pole and screw locations

Use a Stratocaster pickup cover to mark the pole piece locations.

Mark the mounting screw locations.

Mark the corner radii with a nut driver bit.

Cutting and shaping

Use a bandsaw to roughly cut the pickup outline.

Apply tape to the back and superglue to hold pieces together for later separation.

Sand edges and corners to achieve flatwork.

Drilling holes

Drill holes for pole pieces and mounting screws.

Carefully separate the pieces.

Lightly sand the drilled holes with 60-grit sandpaper.

Installing pole pieces

Hammer in the humbucker pole pieces.

Use the pickup cover to help evenly position the backplate.

Enlarge the backplate holes slightly if necessary.

Add a bit of superglue for extra security.

Finishing the bobbin

Drill the hole for the lead wire.

Sand lightly so the wire doesn’t catch.

Brush off dust and apply multiple coats of polyurethane to seal the wood and insulate the pole pieces.

Hang to dry for 12 hours.

Winding the coil

Wrap 42-gauge magnet wire around the lead wire.

Solder the wire to the sleeve.

Apply heat shrink tubing.

Wrap the wire three-quarters of a turn around the pole pieces, then place inside like a Gibson PAF.

Use a sewing machine as a coil winder to wind the coil (about 7.5k turns, stopping by feel).

Attach the negative lead, wrap the coil with embroidery thread, secure with superglue, and trim excess.

Installing magnets

Glue 16 lb and 32 lb neodymium magnets in place.

Adjust alignment for optimal output.

Testing and adjustment

Connect the pickup to an amp.

Tap and move magnets to maximize output.

Check for microphonics and tonal response.

Potting (wax immersion)

Melt soy wax pellets in a container.

Dip the pickup completely, let it saturate, cool, and dry.

Remove bubbles and excess wax.

Final installation and testing

Mount the pickup in a test guitar.

Check clean, bright, and responsive tones.

Make adjustments before installing in the final guitar.

Genius. It's easy to make something when you do it the prescribed way with tools people have sold you. Regardless of what people may assume, it's far more impressive to do scrappy engineering like this. Great work

This channel is one of the best on YT for sure. I'm gonna try my hand at pickup making now. Thanks homez🤘

I love the background music while you're making the pickup! I've learned so much from this video----I've watched it several times. The only part that wasn't clear to me had to do with attaching the coil wires to the lead wires, but I bet you show that in more detail in some of your other pickup videos. Thank you for your creative, innovative, educational, and very entertaining videos!

It's fantastic to see people throwing out most of the ''rules and myths'' and just going for it and getting results that are pretty damm close to manufactures quality for a fraction of the price. I've often thought that the price driffrence from 30 to 150 bucks gets a little ridiculous and that probbably from 50 bucks you're just paying for the name. Nice video and nice pickup.

Man, I love your content. I'm just kinda sad that the Mythbuster guitar is 3-4 years in the making and still not done yet. Hope you're doing okay, Clementine!

The background music is perfect

Nice bookmatched pine flatwork, liberated from its piney prison.  Nice!

A Jazzmaster-esque P90.

So I can easily mod my old duncan designed humbuckers with those neo magnets and get the pickup working to my taste... man you saved me getting rid of one single and three humbucking pickups... Please go on these series. Rock on

This is EXACTLY what I needed as reference.  I have a cigarbox-inspired guitar build that I am working on (still working on the body which I'm building from scratch).  It's a thin guitar so I can't easily fit a full 6 string pickup on it but I'm pretty adamant on putting a P90 on it.  Sadly, it's hard to find 4 string P90's, so I'm going to be building my own.

Awesome video...did anyone else notice the ants crawling on the carpet around 1:53 ?

I m in the middle of winding a rickenbacker  bass pu. Thanks for the inspiration. And yes, wherever there is a hidden agenda, you can find a myth. Good work.