How many winds of wire does a humbucker have?
Gibson’s patent application 1955 states that each coil had 5000 turns per coil. This number was derived from that fact that the P90 single coil, which had been the signature tone of Gibson had 10,000 turns. However, none of Gibson’s original PAF humbuckers have exactly 5000 turns per bobbin. The machines used to wind the bobbins were manually operated allowing for variances to occur. We have found bobbins with as little as 4000 turns and some with more than 6000. They were consistently inconsistent…and so was their tone.
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