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How To Make A P90 "Soap Bar" Guitar Pickup

Aaron The Orchestrator

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How to build and wind your own p90 guitar pickups from parts or a kit. Introduction to the parts, tools and techniques used to build one of my popular pickups the p90 Red Edition. Enjoy and Happy building!!

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13 Comments

@edadpops1709 1 year ago

Great winding machine for a small shop, love mine ,bought on eBay.

@das250250 2 years ago

It's a very Robert Cray sound for the music ( nice )

@victormarinelli5660 2 years ago

Appears to be your second highest viewed video. I certainly enjoyed it. I've just started going down the rabbit hole of pickup building. Please offer more pickup building content.

@donmorcego 2 years ago

I understood that you said that both poles are the same, they come into contact with the screw and central bar. But it seems to me that there is polar opposition, because the magnets attract each other in the video

@edadpops1709 2 years ago

Loved the video.I haven’t wound for a couple of years.this was a great refresher. Hey what size grommets do you need ,2 mm?

@FreeDanielLarson2025 2 years ago

Is this how the 1953-56 p90s were made?, specifically on the Gibson Goldtops, I've seen those pickups go for thousands.

@martinmelhus7324 2 years ago

I assume the thin magnet wire has insulation. Do you need to scrape off the insulation at the contacts, or does the heat of the solder remove the insulation?

@DyeFreeman 2 years ago

So, it “picks up” the vibrations of the strings through a magnet that translates it into an electromagnetic wave?
Also, I wonder if anyone ever used these in acoustic pianos? I would imagine that sounding pretty damn amazing.

@christianurgese 2 years ago

Wire gauge?

@timhamlett5042 2 years ago

What about wax potting?

@das250250 2 years ago

How much wire are you using here ? If you have approx 120mm ( 60mm wide pickup) of wire @ 10,000 turns = 1200m of wire ?

@redcatstw 2 years ago

The direction of wire winding is determined by the direction of winding the wire and not the direction of rotation of the bobbin. So your ccw winding up is wrong.