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"I remember it, it kinda looked like a 60’s Burns with all the plastic control plates on the face? Line 6 pretty much has that modeling guit market sewn up with their Variax guitars tho? "
"The Volkswagen guitar i mean . "
"Yeah . it had a good concept , but was generally considered a pos . Needed some more production tweeking me thinks ."
"That guitar has an onboard midi interface like the iRig software?"
"Thanks guys , It's spring cleanup nowadays in most places , a good time to look out for washer and driers , Older models have a end of cycle buzzer , usually located in the top right of the control panel .…"
"Ray, best to use wall warts rated higher than 9 volts, the higher resistance will give a louder pickup?"
"Thanks to Pick for the list. I knew of most of them, but not all. One thing to add, though. If the wall-wart doesn't have some heft to it, it likely doesn't have enough wire to do anything with."
"Thank you Peter! Oh goody! I have another thing to tear apart!
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"Info for BrianQ:
The DC resistance of the pickup measured at the guitar's output jack socket is 7.3K ohms.
The output level works very well with my Crate GT212 amp at between 3 and 4 on its gain knob. Subjectively it's loud to my…"
"Peter, did you measure the resistance of the pickup, is it loud?"
"My thanks to the anonymous pick for listing potentially useful sources of small coils. When the UK allows car boot sales to re-open, I'll be rummaging through some piles of old stuff {:/)"
"Very cool . Vintage electric razors , buzzer type door bells , some small fire bells , old tattoo machines , aircraft headphones, wallwarts, all have use-able coils and parts too.
lots of fun to be…"
"Thanks Ray.
The coil which I salvaged is freely accessible inside the body of the toothbrush itself, not the one in the charger base unit. That's where I too was nearly stymied by all that potting compound resin. Then I realised that there had…"
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Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush
Posted on April 8, 2021 at 12:00am 15 Comments 1 Like
Question: what do you do with a “wirelessly” re-charged electric toothbrush when its battery eventually dies?
Answer: salvage the tiny induction coil from inside the sealed body of the toothbrush handle. It’s ideal for making your own pickups. All it needs is a magnetic core and some patient, fine wiring work.
I glued a stack of…
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