Форум гитаристов

блин, о чем только люди не думают в свободное время...
Sultanez, занимаешься реставрацией скрипок или мысль была чисто академическая?

Просто другие инструменты с другим звуком из него получаются. И всё. О чем копья ломаются

F61, скажите, а что вы думаете про гитары сделанные в Мексике? Посмотрел объявления о продаже - цены на них ниже чем на японские Fender. Я не к тому, что хочу сэкономить, просто стало интересно.
Почитал форум, и у меня сложилось впечатление, что в основном отношение музыкантов к гитарам Fender made in Mexico, мягко говоря, немного пренебрежительное. Или мне показалось?

такие же синглы xotic ставили на кастом Криса Дуарте

From the same people who bring you the XOTiC line of pedals (AC/RC Booster, BB preamp, etc.) comes Raw Vintage pickups. These pickups are painstakingly crafted to look, sound, and feel like vintage pickups from Fender and Gibson. Here's a (lightly massaged) description from the manufacturer:

With our extensive experience rewinding original vintage pickups, we've used our knowledge to create a series of '50s (RV-5661) and '60s (RV-6264) pickups that come as close to the originals as possible.

Staggered magnetic polepieces are one of the characteristic traits of vintage Stratocaster pickups. For Raw Vintage Pickups, we've used a magnet known as Tall G, which uses the same height for the G and D strings.

We also use Alnico 5 Magnets, and our unique staggering stabilizes the magnetic flux in order to balance each string. With the RV-6264, we were able to simulate the original sound by controlling the magnetic flux density.

In order to obtain the proper amount of midrange while maintaining high frequencies that are pleasant to the ears, we employ a unique layering pattern - sometimes with wire wraps tightly together, and sometimes with more spaces between the wraps. Also, winding is done by a winding machine that's programmed to recreate the perfect tension of hand winding.

Polepieces
Each magnet is magnetized and stabilized through a unique process before the bobbins are put together, in order to make sure the string-to-string output is well balanced. With an ordinary magnetizing machine, magnets are magnetized until they're saturated. But we have a unique method that allows us to control the strength of magnetization, and this allows us to magnetize RV-5661 to a lower gauss strength than RV-6264.

Magnetic Field Direction
In 1961, Fender reversed its magnetic field direction by 180 degrees. With this in mind, RV-5661 has its magnets oriented with their north poles pointing up, and RV-6264 has its south poles up.

To accurately recreate the original pickups, Raw Vintage middle pickups (center pickup) are not reversed, which means that the direction of coil winding and magnetic force is the same as front and rear pickups. Although reversing middle pickup is effective for reducing the noise for half-tone settings, we wanted to avoid creating the disturbance to the magnetic field line caused by the reversed middle pickup, which essentially spoils the tone.

NOTE: Acme Guitar Works' position is that reversing the middle pickup does not spoil the tone, and we therefore order all of our Raw Vintage sets with a RWRP middle pickup.

Polepiece Configurations
For Raw Vintage Pickups, we have duplicated the texturing of the magnets used in Fender's original pickups. For RV-5661, both top and bottom surfaces of the polepiece are very roughly finished using the grinder; while for RV-6264, both surfaces are finished very smoothly via tumbling. Also, for both pickup series, all top edges of the polepieces are hand-chamfered the same way the original pickups were

Coil
For the coil's magnet wire, we use 42 AWG wire, which is the same heavy formvar magnet wire used on the original vintage pickups from 1954 through 1964. However, there is a tolerance range allowed by the industry standard, therefore, upon receiving wire from the manufacturer, we measure the diameter of wire samples (including the coatings) from the spools, and we measure the DC resistance under standardized conditions. According to the results, we sort the wire into appropriate batches for each model and position.

For RV-6264, we select spools with smaller diameters than those used for RV-5661. Coil tension and layer is set lower for RV-5661 compared to RV-6264. By carefully making these selections, DC resistance values of approximately 5.8~6.1 kΩ (RV-5661) and 6.0~6.3 kΩ (RV-6264) are maintained.

Wax Potting
As with vintage pickups, after the coils are wound they're wax potted. By controlling this process so that wax is not fully saturated into the inside of the coil, feedback margin is decreased. And the overtone structure in the mid-high frequencies becomes more complex, bringing out that distinctive glossiness you hear in vintage pickups

Wax Used for Potting
Wax used for coil potting is an original blend with a lower melting point and viscosity than typical. Like the original pickups, we mix more black carbon powder into the wax for RV-5661, and less for RV-6264.

Leads
For the output leads, we use 22 AWG cotton-insulated 7/30 (stranded) wire. Unfortunately, wire available to us today has a significantly smaller diameter (cotton cover) compared to vintage wire. So we've come up with a unique way to modify its thickness and color to match vintage wire, before it's used for our pickups.

User Comments

Michael Thompson
"I have been searching for a long time to find a really great Strat pickup. The Raw Vintage 50's set give me everything that I look for in a Strat pickup. They are bright but also have a little of that warm and round thing that I look for. Very musical. Kudos to Raw Vintage!"

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