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Stay Connected. Enter email address Subscribe. Jason Lollar: The Pickup Artist. Jason Lollar talks about all things pickups, from potting to Ps and beyond in this extended interview, exclusive to premierguitar. For many tone chasers, Jason Lollar is something of a god. And why not? The man who resembles an ancient Greek deity himself, with a thick beard and long, flowing hair effortlessly draped over his shoulders, exists on ferry-bound Vashon Island, miles off the coast of Seattle and is literally bringing tone to life.

He keeps a low profile, and skips the NAMM booth. Indeed, it can be said that Lollar makes a bold statement without having to say much at all. Spaceman Delta II Review. Rig Rundown: Torres. Catalinbread Releases the Cloak. Squier Paranormal Super-Sonic Review. Enter Email Address Subscribe. Rig Rundown: Thrice []. Rig Rundown: White Reaper. Rig Rundown: Eric Clapton. Consider the Mighty Bass Speaker.

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Bad sounding pickups could also be due to inconsistent product. There are many things you can change in an attempt to push some aspect of tone in a particular direction. Certainly not everyone bothers with it. Is there a certain skill or process in winding that can affect the tone of a pickup, or is it more trial and error to achieve certain sounds? Pickup humor again…There is far too much BS claimed, in my opinion.

First, there is no handbook to tell you if you do XYZ you will wind up with You have to learn by trial and error. The skill involved is knowing enough to make a reasonable prediction of the results, and also to know what you can do to take the design further. The other part of winding skill is just purely mechanical; I have seen a lot of sloppy work in photos in advertisements! If someone were interested in winding their own pickups, or learning to custom wire guitars, what would be some good starting points?

They can be from winding on a hand drill to elaborate self-feeding machine assemblies. You have to have something to wind with. It has an overview of how pickups work, they examine various models of pickups and at the end has several interviews with pickup makers like Seymour Duncan, Lindy Fralin and myself. I feel this is the most up-to-date and most accurate book [on the market].

Do you have any recommendations on aftermarket pickup selection for users who are new to aftermarket mods? Use the amp you will be playing the most while you do this —. If you need extra help, find a [store] that is willing to take a little time to advise you.

Do you want more or less bass, treble or midrange? Do you want a tighter, punchier tone or a smoother attack and more sustain?

Whoever you contact can take all this into consideration and should be able to guide you in the right direction. One more thing — get a good guitar cable; it makes a lot of difference particularly when you use the volume and tone controls on the guitar.

To clarify, no one would wind 10, turns of hair-thin wire that is easily broken — let alone keeping track of the turn count- onto a guitar pickup by hand.

I use both methods depending on what I am trying to do, and even the auto winders I do use were designed back in the s or possibly the s. The auto winders I use are set up so they have a lot more randomness to each layer of wire, which mimics hand-winding to a large extent. The technology that these machines use to guide the wire is actually from knitting machines invented in the s.

There is a misperception that an auto-fed winding machine layers each turn of wire next to the last in an orderly fashion. This pattern of wire placement is claimed by some to kill tone. Maybe it could if the machines actually did that, but in practice- because of the unique shape of guitar pickups — even a computer-programmable winder is going to have variation from one turn to the next.

Right now we have nine people who work in the manufacturing part of the shop, which includes the shop foreman and myself. Between all of us, we can make up to a couple thousand pickups a month, and have been for years. I have overseen the making of tens of thousands of pickups, if not more, and I have personally made thousands, if not more! For the love of God, why is it so hard for manufacturers besides yourself to make a decent Jazzmaster pickup?

Imagine what happens to the width of the coil when you have a short space to wind 8, turns on it — it makes the width much wider than a taller coil, which would be narrower for the same amount of turns. Obviously, this is much narrower than a Jazzmaster.