42 awg 43 awg plain enamel wire formvar enameld wire for guitar
pickups
How does a pickup work?
We supply some of the world’s guitar pickup craftsmen with wire
custom made to order.
Our Pickup Wire started with an Italian customer several years ago,
after a year of R&D, and half-year blind and device test in
Italy, Canada, Australia. Since lauched into markets, Ruiyuan
Pickup Wire won a good reputation and has been chosen by over 200
pickups clients from Europe, America, Asia, etc.
Popular insulation options
* Plain
* Poly
* Heavy formvar
Customized colors: only 20kg you can choose your exclusive color
Guitar pickup specialists
We mainly manufacture Plain, heavy Formvar insulation and poly
insulation wire, for the
simple reason that they just sound best to our ears.
The thickness of the wire is usually measured in AWG, which stands
for American Wire Gauge. In guitar pickups, 42 AWG is the one
that’s most commonly used. But wire-types measuring from 41 to 44
AWG are all being used in the construction of guitar pickups.
The most professional guitar pickup wire manufacturer, we offer
formvar/plain enameled copper wire. 42awg, 43awg, 44awg
The wire is mainly used in winding guitar pickups , and is a
favorite among many custom pickup shops.
| 42awg enameled copper wire |
| Characteristics | Technical requests | Test results |
| Conductor diameter | 0.063mm±0.002 | 0.063mm | 0.063mm | 0.063mm |
| Conductor resistance | ≤ 5.900 Ω/m | 5.478 | 5.512 | 5.482 |
| Breakdown voltage | ≥ 400 V | 1768 | 1672 | 1723 |
At its absolute simplest, a guitar pickup consists of a magnet with
a bundle of wire coiled around it. The magnet produces a magnetic
field around itself and the wire coil.
The magic bit is this: If you wiggle certain metallic objects (like
a guitar string, for example) in this magnetic field, a small
electrical current gets generated in the wire coil.
That’s it. Really. You can think of a pickup as being, essentially,
a tiny electrical generator* and, when you strum a chord, you are
providing the vibrating-string energy which is converted into
electrical energy, sent to your amp and made bigger (technical
term).
Of course, things can always be made a little more complicated and
our magnet and coil can be modified to achieve different tonal
aims. First, though, let’s expand a little on our very basic pickup
principal.
