cheap and easy guitar pickups

Step 1Pickup basics

simply a guitar pickup is just a coil of insulated copper wire with a magnet in the center.
most things that seem simple dont always turn out this way but here is an exception(sort of).
now im not recomending that you rip the pickups out of your strat and replace them with the herein mentioned contraptions. but if your building a diddly bow or a frankenstein guitar or just looking to make a new noise then thise is for you
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6 comments
Nov 26, 2006. 12:52 PMmusicman says:
hi michael here iv got the pickups made but i dont know how to wire then in to the guitar and everything else.can you please healp me.
Jan 11, 2010. 5:11 PMbeatlemack says:
Mack here. Could you also send me the diagram or post it online?
Aug 20, 2009. 4:22 PMckurcon says:
so could i just get any magnet and wrap some copper wire around it and use it as a pickup? im trying to make a diddley bow and just need something really cheap to use as a pickup
Apr 13, 2007. 9:41 PMfreewheeler says:
hey how do you build a piezo pickup?do you actually create a mount and brushes for the crystals or what?

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