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         Today I was at the hardware store and I was thinking of coils, or other pickup concepts...just walking around trying to get some ideas.  So anyhow, I am not sure if this will even work, or if someone else has all ready thought it up, or if it will work at all, or even sound good,, but in theroy, it should work.

          I bought two copper pipe caps.  About a 1/2 in size.  I am going to fill the inside with a thin coating of liquid electrial tape to make a coating between some magnets and the copper cap.  Then I am going to drill two holes at the top of the cap to tie in some wire and soder them and then I will let it dry.  I will then push some magnets inside the copper cap and see what happens when I plug it in.  In theory, the copper cap should act like a coil, and I should get a signal....I have made pickups that sound decent with very little wire and weak magnets.....if this works, it will be really easey to slap some pups together.  Now, they will only really be about diddley bow size, but I am beting you could make two or three and tie them all into one single jack.  It is worth a shot.

         If this works....I am betting you could get a decent peice of copper pipe a couple of inches long and coat the inside, cap off both ends and tie in some wire at the end to the jack...then add your magnets on the inside, and you could have a kind of a lip stick pickup.....again, good concept, but it is worth a shot to try. Testing will start today, as soon as I clean the garage and mow.....lol.