Guitar pickup wire

  • 43 AWG Heavy Formvar Enameled Copper Wire For Guitar Pickup

    43 AWG Heavy Formvar Enameled Copper Wire For Guitar Pickup

    From the early 1950’s through mid-1960’s, Formvar was used by the era’s foremost guitar manufacturers in a majority of their “single coil” style pickups. The natural color of Formvar insulation is amber. Those who use Formvar in their pickups today say that it produces similar tonal quality to those vintage pickups of the 1950’s and 1960′s.

  • 42 AWG Heavy Formvar Enameled Copper Wire for Guitar Pickup

    42 AWG Heavy Formvar Enameled Copper Wire for Guitar Pickup

    Here are at least 18 different types of wire insulation: polyurethanes, nylons, poly-nylons, polyester, and to name a few. Pickup makers have learned how to use different types of insulation to refine a pickup’s tonal response. For example, a wire with heavier insulation can be used to maintain more high-end detail.

    Period-accurate wire is used in all vintage-style pickups. One popular vintage-style insulation is Formvar, which was used on old Strats and on some Jazz Bass pickups. But what the insulation vintage buffs know best is plain enamel, with its blackish-purple coating. Plain enamel wire was common in the ’50s and into the ’60s before the new insulations had been invented.

  • 41AWG 0.071mm Heavy formvar guitar pikcup wire

    41AWG 0.071mm Heavy formvar guitar pikcup wire

    Formvar is one of the earliest synthetic enamel of formaldehyde and substance hydrolytic polyvinyl acetate after polycondensation which dates back to the 1940s. Rvyuan Heavy Formvar enameled pickup wire is classic and often used on the 1950s, 1960s vintage pickups while people of the time also wind their pickups with plain enameled wire.

     

  • Custom 0.067mm Heavy Formvar Guitar Pickup Winding Wire

    Custom 0.067mm Heavy Formvar Guitar Pickup Winding Wire

    Wire Type: Heavy Formvar Guitar Pickup Wire
    Diameter: 0.067mm,AWG41.5
    MOQ: 10Kg
    Color: Amber
    Insulation: Heavy Formvar Enamel
    Build: Heavy / Single /Customized Single Formvar

  • 42 AWG Plain Enamel Vintage Guitar Pickup Winding Wire

    42 AWG Plain Enamel Vintage Guitar Pickup Winding Wire

    We supply some of the world’s guitar pickup craftsmen with wire custom made to order. They uses a wide variety of wire gauges in their pickups, most frequently in the 41 to 44 AWG range,the most common enameled copper wire size is 42 AWG.This plain enameled copper wire with blackish-purple coating is currently the best selling wire in our shop. This wire is generally used to make vintage style guitar pickups. We provide small packages, about 1.5kg per reel .