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Guys, I wish I could just give you all a bunch of these and share the wealth. But the bobbins are in such small quantity that they're hand machined, one at a time from delrin, a super high quality plastic that machines like brass and has excellent dimensional stability. The magnets aren't too terribly expensive but, it takes hours to chuck them up one at a time to grind them round like a screw head, and them clamp them in a vice one at a time to hand cut the faux screw slot. Then my good friend and guitar tech scatter-winds each coil by hand, sets the magnet stagger, charges the magnets and assembles the pickups one at a time. Then they get wax potted to prevent feedback at high volumes. It's a fairly expensive, time consuming process. That's why the price is where it's at. I am in no way trying to charge what the market will bear. It wasn't really my intention to start selling these things but as interest grew, it's the only way we're gonna get a few of these out there. I have fully disclosed all of my methods, winding specs, and a complete drawing (coming soon) of my bobbin design so that others may benefit and use this information to build these themselves should they desire to. Honestly, I won't be retiring from selling a few of these pickups! It's just a cool project that keeps off the streets and keeps my wife mad at me most of the time, (as it should be), while I obsess over my guitar fetishes.
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