Mastery Cyclic Pickups?

[tammyw]

In case you missed it amongst the instagrams, they're potted with black epoxy, so you probably couldn't expose the secrets inside without literally destroying one.

[hexes]

How about...We all pool our money together, buy one and perform an autopsy?
I am only half-joking. With 20 of us, that would work out at $25 per head. We can then organize a raffle of sorts to decide which member inherits it.

and then send it to Novak for a re-wind if we destroy the coil.

[epizootics]

How about...We all pool our money together, buy one and perform an autopsy?
I am only half-joking. With 20 of us, that would work out at $25 per head. We can then organize a raffle of sorts to decide which member inherits it.

and then send it to Novak for a re-wind if we destroy the coil.

Hahaha.
That would truly...complete the cycle.

[hexes]

How about...We all pool our money together, buy one and perform an autopsy?
I am only half-joking. With 20 of us, that would work out at $25 per head. We can then organize a raffle of sorts to decide which member inherits it.

and then send it to Novak for a re-wind if we destroy the coil.

Hahaha.
That would truly...complete the cycle.

i cannot stop laughing. thank you.

[rbrcbr]

Got to try out the Bilt, here's a demo

[Maggieo]

Got to try out the Bilt, here's a demo

Lovely!

[marqueemoon]

Nice playing. That guitar sounds great.

[tammyw]

I was considering putting these in a guitar without a full pickguard. I thought I could trim off the mounting flanges, drill some holes in the outer corners of the pickup from the back side, install some threaded inserts, and have the screws go through from the back of the guitar.

Unfortunately when I started drilling I quickly hit something metallic shortly below the surface of the potting compound; I'm not sure what it is. It's bright silver, seems to be harder than aluminum or copper. It doesn't register a significant magnetic charge and a neodymium ball magnet isn't attracted to it. It's in both corners, but there's no electrical continuity from one side to the other, nor with either of the leads.

Aside from that, I can tell you the DC resistance is about 6.4k neck and 8.5k bridge. Inductance is around 3.18 H neck and 5.33 H bridge. They seem to have a rather weak magnetic field, somewhere in the range 11-17mT at the surface of the cover, with the bridge being slightly higher than the neck overall. The magnetic field is only about two inches wide before it drops off significantly, and I'm not sure if it even follows the curves. The outer band is South polarity and the inner is North, and it's the same front and back.

[steakfinger]

After listening to the demos it’s pretty clear to me that these are a gold foil-type sound.

[steakfinger]

After listening to the demos it’s pretty clear to me that these are a gold foil-type sound.