Beagle


Spacey Pups^TM
 
I like the sound of that!  (pun in 10 did!)

That's a guarantee that the pooch (Beagle) is vested in the success of the company/product. You only have to pay him in becan. Win Win. 

You don't want to get bogged down in handling the shipping of the becan.  I can take that chore off of your hands.  Here, let me just fill that form out for you...

geeze...investors..company...forms..products...and I don't even have a pot to....
melt wax in.

Well I spent some time and start-up investment is easily
over $1,000.00. - That's purchasing equipment-not building it which
I don't want to do and some of it I don't know how and don't care
to learn how right now.

I also learned that people pay $40-75 to have pups rewound. I've
never done that either.
I would imagine if one is pretty good at it they could do one in about an hour...guessing
about 20-30 minutes to wind and the rest of the time would be prep to wind and
potting/cleanup/testing.

But that is "business" which is not a factor for me...just info. I'd most likely never
see a return other than the ability and knowledge and so far it's still worth it to me.

I've also learned something that I feel others may benefit from that don't already know...
The magnets polarity should be checked....color coded wires aren't always correct and
placement of South or North pups is important.  
Here is the tool and info.

 This has interested me too Spacey. I guess not enough to pursue it seriously. I had thought it would be fun to wind a few myself just to see how they turned out,actually read up on it but mostly due to lack of time I haven't really pursued it.A very interesting subject.  I had thought that maybe instead of  the pickup being the low signal into either an amp or an active circuit someone could make a pickup that had matched low amplification or or other powered signal changes built right into it. With miniaturization a lot more is now possible. The benefit being lower power consumption at the input and a cleaner signal.

 That guitar designer whose site link you posted reminds me of  some of the artists I have watched at art shows who started tacking all kinds of hardware to a picture frame to end up with something like those guitars only in picture form. He seems to have taken it a step or two further and made guitars like this. The sight of those would give me serious nightmares in certain contexts. They look forboding and scary to me lol.....something like Hellraiser 6 with fresh flesh laying all around and zombie lead players....darn I might not sleep very well tonight.

 

Star if I do persue it I will be serious. Even though I'm only getting
info there always seem to be a little something to take away even
if I don't follow through. The polarity tester is a good example.

When I stopped playing in '86 I played a cheap Japanese Strat with one
pickup and tremelo. I could have played any guitar I wanted....and did.

I love seeing what others do to guitars but it doesn't mean I would want one. Not unlike
venturing off into the pups...there always seems to be a little something to "keep".
For instance:
All the crap that he screwed to those guitars.....nothing was of use. He could have at least
had a little contraption that swung out over the pups and checked polarity! LOL.

Michael,  as clever and skilled as you are and even taking into account how beautiful they would look.....



















Are wooden pups realy a good idea?

 I have no doubt you could likely do it if you wanted to. From what I know of you, you can make most anything you put your mind to make.

 If I tried winding pickups the phone would ring while winding one and I would say to myself...shoot, was I on turn 68 or 69? I would probably have to make a winder of some kind.

 I like to see people doing something different or better with guitars. I know a lot of precise engineering goes into the typical guitar. I guess I lean away from typical for other reasons. Innovative might be a better word.

LOL Karyn....no. I don't even care for wooden pup covers...since ya asked.:)

My taste is clean and simple. I definately appreciate others having theirs and respect it.
Much like your Gibson...very proud for you to own it but...just not for me.

The mixture of metal and wood is a fantastic and beautiful thing. As folks may love
the exotic wood in the cabin of their cruiser.....but there are limits.

The idea that plastic can work with the metal and wood...wow...if I had not grown up
seeing it I'm not sure I would even care for it on a guitar.
Now that I'm gathering info about pups I can understand better the reason of using it.

Karyn what I really think would be a great addition to guitars is an EMF and/or Gauss
meter....that way when one is playing to an empty house it could be confirmed LOL....and
it's great to know when the magnets need recharging too!

Star..thanks for the vote of confidence.

You're right on target with winding. The number or wraps, how they
are wrapped is sure a big part of it...not all but BIG.

What is really getting me:
I don't think it's hard to do. It's more just
getting the equipment and learning the process.
One must keep records of everything so effects of any change can be heard and noted. 
Sure a learning curve and some amount of skill acquired with time...but what
I'm seeing is that I could probably build 3 pups for the cost of 1.
So instead of having to buy one from "Joe" for 90 I could build one for 30 and
have it in less than an hour.
Now that is something worth considering and investigating....to me.