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I start with the black wire and tape and glue it to the metal of the pickup body. Then I wrap the thin pickup wire around the stripped end of the black wire and solder it. Since the pickup wire is insulated I only buy the kind where it’s insulation melts off when soldering. But if you don’t heat it long enough it won’t melt off and won’t connect. In testing several pickups in the end if there is no connection then I solder it again.

Si. Para mi, yo probo esta peri no tranajo. Por mi, necessario usar pecano wire mad gande Por la connection. Pero usted esta correcto.

Yes. And this method has half of the windings reversed. Even though the drill is still going in the same direction, because the pickup you're making is inserted first on one side and then on the other, it the fine wire in the opposite direction. If you want to put another set of magnets on say, north when the rest are south, I'd suggest using smaller magnets as too much magnet will give a constant tremolo effect. I hope that helps.

@@bartblankenship1314 I understand what you did with the winding, since you flipped it around and ran the drill the same way you had reverse windings on one side. But in a traditional humbucker, wouldn’t you have separate magnets for each winding? A North Pole clockwise and the south pole counterclockwise? I am curious, if you used six magnets, with three under each winding, and the poles reversed, would you have a thicker and beefier sound?

You know more than I do about humbuckers. All I know is that traditional ones have two sets of magnets. When I try making one with two sets I'll look back at this response and wind them in the directions you said. Also, since the video I've started using smaller wire and the resistance went way up. @@KirkDickinson

Thanks. So many pickups ruined! One weekend trying to get too much resistance I broke 2 miles of wire. Now I use 44 gage n easily get 4K ohms.

It’s a strong name!

Good luck Mike. And if you have any questions or want to set up a video chat I’m happy to help.

Oh n thanks for the feedback. I do need to have more closeups so viewers can see more clearly what I’m doing.

@@bartblankenship1314 I definitely appreciate that, Bart. I've built a few CBG's, but I'm always feeling my way through each guitar project -- which is a big part of the fun. The one I'm working on right now will get an MGB flat pickup. We'll see how it sounds. My son is the guitar player in the family. I'm the builder-guy. LOL

i bought a cb gitty flatpup for my last build w/ my camacho (Blk/Chrome) box... i watched your vid on winding a bucker. you was clear in your speaking of the steps , although the vid quality was low graphics & no still shots or zoom -ins... but i just rewind & pause until i understood... thank you for the vid ! im going to be trying to make one in a few days.. wish me luck. 😃

All of the flatpup style pickups I’ve seen that have windings on the second coil reversed are called humbuckers and don’t have a second set of magnets with the poles reversed. But I think I’ll try it on my next wind and see if there is less hum. Thanks for your question.

@@bartblankenship1314 I wondered because that's the point of a humbucker, to cancel the hum. Not just being two coils. You are right, all flat pickups have it that way.

@@argi0774 Yes. I know it's a clever name and made to cancel hum. I won't know until I build one with two sets of magnets, and the reversed coils if it is the magnets or the direction of the coil windings that have the most effect. Also, mine and Elmar's flat pickups use neodymium magnets with the polarity's north and south being above and below the pickup. But many of the knock offs use bar magnets with the polarity 90 degrees from Elmar and mine.

@@bartblankenship1314 If this is true, then the knockoffs do it the right way. That's how a fullsize humbucker is built. The polarity of the magnet sideways. For humcancelling, you need both at the same time: reverse wound AND reverse polarity.

It's an acoustic with f-holes not a big round hole.

Just make it with 6 magnets n hope for something above 4K. I’d pot it in wax or epoxy so it’s not microphonic. Let me know how it goes!

I also wanted to add that I just tested several that I'd made recently to see if winding more than Elmar's 900 ohms was worth it. It really isn't. If you wind more than 1500 ohms worth, the pup gets too thick to mount easily under the strings and so you have to cut down into the box which puts the pup further away. So 900 close to the strings sounds the same on the same guitar as 3600 1/4" further from the strings. But I broke 2 miles of pickup wire figuring this out.

Greg Martin that’s how I learned. But I wanted to post a more thorough how to video on it. I’d broken one of the ones I bought from Elmar n so looked up his video n bought wire and rewound it.

Hi Pablo. I hadn't heard of them but just checked them out. They use a bar magnet but are wound similarly. I've also started soaking mine in epoxy as it does protect the wires. They have done a lot more research than I have. I've just watched Elmar's videos and recreated to the best of my ability what he had going although he's much neater than I can be with my hand held drill. Thanks for your comment!

Thanks. It's super frustrating breaking a wire especially when you've played the pickup for a month and then tinker with it just a bit and .......

Hey Ron. I'd love to see what you're taking about especially with the magnets pulling the saw. Glad you liked my vid!

I've done that and also poured epoxy over it once it's in the frame. Less fragile then.

That's because It's very intense winding with crude tools.

I have been hit by lightening way up a mountain in Colorado and lived to tell about it. Perhaps it explains a lot.

Yes and I do especially for lobo guitars and shovel guitars. I was just copying the original Flatpup.

The ground is to the wire at the end of the winding. But then, I solder a wire from the volume pot case and connect the other end to the bridge or at times even us a bb split shot fishing sinker to crimp it to a string. And then as long as part of you is touching the string below the bridge, it's grounded. Let me know if that helps.

@@bartblankenship1314 Thank you for the reply, I was over thinking. i'd just installed some emg pickups which have positive, negative and ground wires and I got confused. I'll be taking the emg's out (don't like them) once I make these flatpups. Thank you again, its much appreciated.

@@colinduffy9055 Just remember that the ground wire is soldered to the end of the windings. I mistakenly made up a dozen for a workshop and put the ground on the start of the thin, pickup wire, and while all the guitars worked, there was some hum. It wasn't until I got home and built my first shovel guitar like Justin Johnson's famous one and couldn't get it to work that I realized the ground wire should be on the end of the windings. I don't know how many times I've read Elmar's instructions and watched his videos. And I don't understand why it makes a difference. But it does. Good luck! And don't get discouraged. I break perhaps a third of all the ones I build.

Yes, you are correct. I do hope that it's clear enough that you can now build your own. I've looked at other videos building Flatpup style pickups and though they leave some information out and also use expensive winders.

I'm glad you found it helpful even though on the video since it was difficult to film using my computer, I dropped a tiny bit of solder on the pickup wire spool below and it snagged and broke the wire. Figured, I'd show that and how to fix. Have you built any yet?

@@bartblankenship1314 yep. That drop of solder helped me a lot! Lol. I've made a few 3 pole pickups for cigar box guitars and used neodymium magnets. They sound pretty good! I just recieved some bobbin material and brass eyelets. I'm going to try to make a 6 pole single coil for one of my Strat style guitars next. Thanks again!👍😎🎸🎶

@@74dartman13 Good luck. I'd love a link to what you come up with!

@@bartblankenship1314 ok...if I make a video, I'll let you know.👍😎🎸🎶

I'm glad you liked it Andre! Next, I'll post one on if there is a difference in sound between north facing up or south on the magnets.

@@bartblankenship1314 Thank you very much! One question came to my mind now. When to stop, I mean, as it's impossible to count turnings, so how to guess that it is time to stop winding? and thank you again, greetings from Canada.

How much is enough? Since I am copying the original Flatpup, I try to go as thick as Elmar does, but since he uses a fancier machine to wind and I use a hand held drill, I have to go thicker. I test the resistance when I’m done, off the soldered on lead wires. If I’m at 2k ohms I’m happy. But even 1k will work n you’ll just have to turn up the volume. People have complained about the low resistance as most pickups have more but these are thin and meant to be mounted close to the strings. If you need you can put a shim under it to get it closer to the strings. Hope that helps.

@@bartblankenship1314 Thank you! Surely helped, and makes a lot of sense to keep it thicker to compensate the number of winding due to the inefficiency of the drill to get it tighter as the proper machine would. Thank you.

@@folchandre feel free to contact me via email if you like. Also, I hope you will make some of these pickups and post a video of it. I know I was proud of my effort the first time. Actually, each time it seems a miracle, like I should be wearing a wizard's hat! bartblank@yahoo.com

This wire is insulated so you can't just twist it together and continue. What I did was solder it to another wire just as you would the lead wires which melts the insulation.

It appears to be this: Remington Industries 42SNSP.25 42 AWG Magnet Wire, Enameled Copper Wire, 4 oz, 0.0026" Diameter, 12828' Length, Natural from Amazon.

42 AWG that I buy by the pound from Remmington,