Thank you for busting these stupid audiophile myths and generally inspiring people to make gear with their own hands. I've had some battles with the elitists about what is acceptable (everything that works) and what is not (huge price markups on musical equipment), and built my fair share of homemade pickups and guitar bodies... I do not plan on stopping. It is great that I have discovered one more of our kind. Maybe we could talk one day, you look like an interesting person to share some stories with.

This is the perfect blend of interesting content and entertaining content. Great work dude, great channel.

Man, the original are ridiculously expensive. Thanks for doing this, you got a new subscriber.

I've no idea why the almighty algorhythm brought me to this channel, but this is the most metal thing I've pretty much ever seen at this point in my life.

I LOVE that you debunk pickup/ magnet religion. 😂 Always entertaining as well, mate.

Dude, you're my new favorite guitar DIY channel. You're doing exactly the things I've always wanted to do but never could. Subscribed!

I'm just an electronics nerd. Anyone that sets the elitist audiophile's straight is okay in my book!

Your sustain comments and then test/demonstration around 4:50 had me rolling. First time on your channel, but won't be the last. I've made a bass, and a guitar, but want to make my own pickups, and this video helped. Thanks

i love this, is like a mix between a piezo and a coil

The true hero of this vid- the venerable and humble double-stick tape! I'm interested to know how a diy-jobby like this might handle some modern, super sharp metal distortion. Clarity-wise I mean, it seems as though it may be pretty damn good at it!

I wasn’t expecting much, but that’s really cool………thanks for posting!

I'm starting my own diy guitar journey and your videos have been so incredibly helpful!

I just love to hear what you play.  Everything about this channel is awesome, but the playing is really cool.

I wonder what a bent copper pipe in place of the copper sheet would sound like.

Everyone that says that the Alumitones must be cheap to build is ignoring the fact that a conventional single coil pickup typically uses less than $2 worth of copper wire (at U.S. retail prices) and is very simple to manufacture. The wire is wound around a bobbin, often by automated machinery. Even if you're hand scatter winding, like with my Mojotone pickup winder, it just takes minutes to wind a pickup. The magnets are then pressed into the middle of the bobbin or attached below the coil, and the coil is soldered to the leads. That's about it. Lace Alumitones are more than just a loop of aluminum, some magnets and an off-the-shelf transformer, and the manufacturing process has a lot more steps. The aluminum is waterjet cut, formed, and then finished with anodizing or plating. The coils are wound on tiny, custom bobbins whose injection molds likely cost tens of thousands of dollars to have made. Assembly is more complicated than with a conventional pickup as well. The steel cores that inductively link the aluminum to the coils need to be glued in, attaching the coils as well, and the coils need to be soldered to the leads. The technology behind single coil current transformer pickups isn't complicated, I've made a DIY version myself, but none of the homebrew Alumitones that I've seen are very practical. All of them use off the shelf transformers that are pretty bulky and won't fit into a standard pickup rout. Not only did Lace spend time and money developing something that worked, they came up with an elegant, compact solution that will just drop into an existing rout. I don't quite get it. Lace comes up with one of the few original pickup designs of the last 60 years that saves resources (and reduces the weight of pickups significantly) and sounds great and people rag on them because they think, mistakenly, that they are cheap to build.

Love the material.

"It is the greatest invention since the vagina" is my new favorite one-liner.

OUTSTANDING! Finally, a guitar tech who makes me want to try that myself! Your music demos are firkin perfect.

Wow, I knew they were a relatively simple design, but that is ridiculously easy!!  Thanks for sharing, I will definitely be experimenting with this

There you go again, man.  Doing crazy stuff that proves the marketing world is CRAZY!  Very very cool.