Famous 'home made' guitars - Brian May + EVH

phil_b

Cols said:

Voxman said:

Cols said:

That’s Brian May out then, he went and got a set of Burns pickups out of a shop instead of winding them himself.  Bloody amateur.

Nope, he got them out of an old Burns and completely rewound them to many times the number of windings. So I think we'll give him that one!

https://www.theredspecial.com/2018/01/brian-may-interview-the-red-specials-original-pickups/

That’s the story of the original attempt at making his own pickups from first principles.  Apparently they sounded good, but didn’t work on bent sites as the magnets had opposing polarities.  He replaced them with store-bought Trisonics as they were the only ones commercially available.

yes he did buy them new from a shop. he did mod them to some extent as he filled them with Araldite

Voxman

phil_b said:

Cols said:

Voxman said:

Cols said:

That’s Brian May out then, he went and got a set of Burns pickups out of a shop instead of winding them himself.  Bloody amateur.

Nope, he got them out of an old Burns and completely rewound them to many times the number of windings. So I think we'll give him that one!

https://www.theredspecial.com/2018/01/brian-may-interview-the-red-specials-original-pickups/

That’s the story of the original attempt at making his own pickups from first principles.  Apparently they sounded good, but didn’t work on bent sites as the magnets had opposing polarities.  He replaced them with store-bought Trisonics as they were the only ones commercially available.

yes he did buy them new from a shop. he did mod them to some extent as he filled them with Araldite

Interesting.