/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I built a guitar pickup. I used a piece of really thick wire slathered in nail barnish, really thin wire salvaged from a real pickup, a tiny toroid salvaged from a cfl ballast, a slice of copper tubing cut open and flattened into a plate, two rectangular neo magnets stacked together, some scrap plywood, masking tape, superglue and solder. It works! But it has very low output. Maybe with twice the turns on the secondary it would come closer to a typical single coil solenoid pickup output. I have no idea how many turns I used. I could probably squeeze in some more if I can manage not snapping the tiny wire.