Car parts to pickup's?

Is there a magical car part out there that may have a copper coil of wire in it that you could make a pick up out of? I am mainly looking for items with copper coils in them......I don't care if it is from a car or not. I just thought if I could find a cheap part here and there with copper in a wound form, just add magnets, and bam, you got a pickup.....

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Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on December 29, 2010 at 8:04pm

I havent had the chance to do any testing, but I happen to have a few things in my junk pile that I intend to evaluate for just that purpose. For example I have a 2 wire cam position sensor (Forget what it came out of) that has somewhere between 1500-2000 ohms resistance, it is basically a coil of fine wire wound on a magnetic pole piece. I was going to experiment with it as a pickup for a scrappy bit of a diddly bow project I am planning.

Will post results on that experiment down the road a bit.......

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Permalink Reply by Huntz Meyer on December 30, 2010 at 2:05am

Relays

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Permalink Reply by mike anderson Blues Box Guitars on December 30, 2010 at 2:14am

old chevy speakers, they have a coil that works good for a one stringer

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Permalink Reply by Bob Harrison on December 30, 2010 at 4:00am

Old door bell ringer coils look like they would work. 9 volt type battery chargers have been used here on CBN, there are videos about how they did it.

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Permalink Reply by Hey, TURN IT DOWN! on December 30, 2010 at 7:45am

Any solenoid...door lock, trunk release, etc....but I dont know how it would sound...

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Permalink Reply by Bob Harrison on December 30, 2010 at 9:14am

This ringer has an ohm reading of 2.4k. I purchased this a a surplus store. It looked like it would be fun to make a pickup from.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Harrison on December 30, 2010 at 9:15am

Bob Harrison said:

This ringer has an ohm reading of 2.4k. I purchased this a a surplus store. It looked like it would be fun to make a pickup from.

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Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on December 30, 2010 at 9:21am

It's a pain to go page to page but: http://www.instructables.com/id/cheap-and-easy-guitar-pickups/step2...

Don

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Permalink Reply by Dan Kruitz on December 30, 2010 at 10:14am

How about the coil packs from say a modern Ford V8?

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Permalink Reply by Tony Davies on July 2, 2011 at 8:48am

dynamo is full of wire

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Permalink Reply by Gadsden Guitars on July 3, 2011 at 4:44am

If you get an old rotary phone there is a coil in there that controls the ringing of the bells, it's quite a beefy unit. you drop a bolt down through the top with a magnet on the underside, figure out what is your pos/neg and whalla, you've got a pickup. I've seen it done, just haven't done it myself yet, got about five of them myself.