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Permalink Reply by bill on June 20, 2012 at 10:29am

thanks for the info, i have tried the adapter that way as well with the steel left on.  i do have a question for you,. im not much of a wiring guru could you tell me how you would wire them in series or para or in or out of phase this i think i know how to connect them in series, is that where you connect the positive from one to negative of the other and the then the out

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Permalink Reply by bill on June 20, 2012 at 6:49am

thanks guys for all the input... this is a great place to get the answer to just about everything.  Pick thanks for the link to that vid.  there is another one out there too where you can leave the plates on the coil thanks to the phrygian kid for that info, that was actually very interesting. I have to agree with you on that git by Brian Hunt that is screamer if ever i saw one.  would love to hear it.  i would like to keep this going as there was hours of information i got from it, i'm sure there are others out there with the same questions.  thanks everyone i've tried just about every combination i could come up with.  i've even stripped the wire off the coil and wound it around bobbins.  they could be louder but with a little help from a pedal all is good.  i will post some pics probably by the end of the weekend of some of the experiments i've tried.  thanks again and if anyone has any other way to make these adapter or sewing bobbin pickups i know i would love to try them out.

 

bill

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Permalink Reply by Randal on July 13, 2012 at 1:19am

The Book "Cigar Box Guitars" By David Sutton has a nine page article Titled "Building a homemade electromagnetic guitar pickup, by One String Willie! Using sewing bobbins, enameled  wire,  magnet(s).

I saw someone on youtube who made a diddly bow and had some salvaged parts from electric clippers as the pickup url below.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC9dGSMPpi0&feature=related

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Permalink Reply by Paulmusic37 on April 13, 2014 at 1:21pm

I have so many questions about this. What kind of magnets do you use? I guess you should get really strong ones but can you use one big bar magnet, or do you have to use a bunch of little ones? What kind of pots do you use? Technically these are single coil pickups but they sound pretty dark. Should one use a higher value to let some of the higher end in? Also, if you keep both coils together it seems a tick away from a humbucker. Has anyone tried to put some magnets on the bottom and wire them to some slug metal near the top? I'm not really clear about how humbuckers work but I think it's 2 coils with opposite direction and magnets with reversed polarity wired together. Speaking of humbuckers, I once heard that you can remove the slug screws from a standard humbucker and get a single coil sound with no hum. Can you just stick a magnet behind a single coil to remove the hum? If anyone can take on all these questions I'd have a whole lot of respect for your knowledge. Thanks.

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