Music Wire - Craft the Sound That Defines You
When it comes to tone, every detail matters. At MWS Wire Industries, we supply the world’s top pickup makers and boutique winders with the precision-engineered wire they rely on to shape legendary sound.
Our guitar pickup wire isn’t just built to spec, it’s crafted to carry emotion, tone, and character.
Amazing tone starts from the powerful combination of our precision wire and your unique pickup winding style.
Why Musicians and Builders Choose MWS Music Wire
- Pure and consistent tone. Our magnet wire has the tightest dimensional and DC resistance tolerances available with uniform insulation, giving every coil consistent performance.
- Vintage to modern options. We supply a wide selection of wire gauges, coatings, and materials to replicate classic pickup tone or fuel new sonic experiments.
- Large quantities or low MOQ. Whether you’re hand-winding custom pickups or producing at scale, MWS has the music wire solution for you in the volume you need.
- Trusted by the best. MWS is the largest supplier of music industry pickup wire in the world. Since the 1970s, leading brands and independent builders alike have counted on MWS to deliver the wire that brings their instruments to life.
Let’s Build Your Signature Tone
It all starts with the wire. Although we offer options such as pure silver wire for pickups, copper is still the most popular.
There are many different insulation types but the most popular are Formvar, Plain Enamel, and Poly-Nylon. We offer single, or heavy builds. For more information visit our Product Page.
Our Wire Plus Your Winding Techniques
Voicing a guitar pickup isn’t just a matter of selecting the right wire, insulation, and number of turns — how you wind the wire is equally important.
Winding technique, as well as the amount of wire wound, affects the resonant frequency of the coil and dictates the high-frequency roll-off point, some of the many factors that allow for fine-tuning a pickup’s high-end response.
Guitar Pickup Wire Winding Techniques
Winding technique help determine each pickup’s “voice.” It’s a delicate balancing act of tonality, a constant give-and-take controlling the complex interaction of wire type and one of three winding techniques:
- Machine Winding – a machine spins the bobbin and moves back and forth at a regular pace, distributing the wire evenly across the bobbin.
- Hand Winding – a machine spins the bobbin, but the magnet wire goes through the hands of an operator who distributes the wire along the bobbin. This is how the earliest pickups were wound.
- Scatter Winding – A technique used by hand to distribute the wire along the bobbin in an intentionally scattered or random pattern giving every pickup wound this way an uncopiable unique sound.
Why Choose MWS for your Music Wire Needs?
Based in the USA
High Quality In-House Testing
Founded in 1968
