Author Topic: Single coil Question (Read 3680 times)

BloodMountain · « **on:** January 20, 2007, 02:34:35 PM »

hi
i have just read this thread:
http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=122&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=sinner&start=30

and i still don't see why you can buy a single coil, glue an empty single coil cover onto the side, and screw it in a humbucker hole?

can someone explain please...
Thanks
BM

gingataff · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2007, 03:02:41 PM »

Maybe because a single coil is wound directly around the polepieces with a vulcanised fibre top and bottom added, the screw holes are fitted to the base of this bobbin. Whereas a humbucker is wound on a plastic bobbin and this is then attached to a metal plate. The screw holes are on lugs on the metal plate at the midpoint where the two bobbins of the HB meet.
In simple terms the holes are in the wrong place. I'm sorry if this is too simple or seems patronising.

I suppose what could be done is one coil of a humbucker could be wound and the other left empty, but a plastic humbucker bobbin would probably only accomodate screws or metal slugs with a bar magnet underneath rather than actual alnico magnet polepieces, so the sound would be more like a P90 than a true single coil.

BloodMountain · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2007, 03:11:43 PM »

about the screw holes: couldn't you just attach a screw plate onto the single coil wheile the empty single coil cover is on? so you would just glue/attach a screw "unit" where a humbucker screw unit would usually be. obviously to do this, you would have to cut off the single coil screw units.

is that possible?

gingataff · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2007, 03:34:47 PM »

Quote from: BLOODMOUNTAIN

about the screw holes: couldn't you just attach a screw plate onto the single coil wheile the empty single coil cover is on? so you would just glue/attach a screw "unit" where a humbucker screw unit would usually be. obviously to do this, you would have to cut off the single coil screw units.

is that possible?

It might be easier to mount a regular singlecoil bobbin onto a humbucker metal plate (kind of like a tele bridge pickup) with a dummy coil next to it for appearances sake (wait, I think think that's what you just said :) )
The other option is to buy one of these http://www.ibanez.co.jp/japan/index.html (click on the text next to the LEGO blocks on the side menu where it says "True Duo", and check out the videos)