He disgarded those pickups and then used 3 burns pickups that he rewound to get the sound he wanted it says further on in the article...BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS wrote:this was in the brian may issue of guitar player back in '81 or so. after i bought it he explains building it with his dad out of the mantle piece as they had no money to buy a guitar. when they were making the pickups, they forgot about the polarity of the rod magnets and inserted them randomly. he said this caused a "wooshing sound" when he would play it and bend the strings. interesting article, a must read !
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