What to do with Old Guitar Pick-ups?

[rsalinger]

I've got a few old pick-ups lying around. They were mostly swapped-out from various guitars that I've owned over the years, when upgrading to something "better".

I was just wondering if there is any use for an old guitar pick-up, other than a "Guitar Pick-up"?

Hum cancelling in a spring reverb? ...LOL!

[NickC]

I used to work for a bandleader that complained about the noise from my single-coil pups in strats and teles. So I ended up replacing them with single-coil-sized humbuckers (Dimarzio, Seymour Duncan, Lace Actodyne, etc). I was never completely satisfied with the tone, but the boss didn't complain about the hiss/noise ..... so it was a compromise I learned to live with. Now I have a box full of perfectly good pickups, sitting there gathering dust.

[Structo]

Make a lap steel guitar?

[Super_Reverb]

One option might be to get Fender guitar neck and body and other hdwre from eB#y and put together a Frankenguitar. Looks like it could be done for coupla hundred.

Sometimes bodies and necks go cheap if body has dings or needs paint.

Maybe a 12AX7 preamp in that hollow cavity behind the pots


rob

[boots]

Old pickups ought to be great for cigar box guitars and diddley bows!

[Reeltarded]

I clean my bench with old pickups.

[Andy Le Blanc]

I set up a rig once where I used a donor pickup and wound another right off it, fun.. even repotted the thing, and ended up with a working pickup.

Those machine wound one are just too perfect, gots to get some funk in a pickup to be any good

[jon]

Fridge Magnets

[NickC]

Fridge Magnets

I like that idea ......................... but ...................... just last night I suggested to the wife I'd like to replace all the coffee tables in the living room with guitar amps (mainly because I have run out of space in my studio and equipment locker for storing them .... and I'd like to build some more ..... but I didn't tell her that).

She wasn't amenable to the idea. No sir, she was not amenable at all! More like a-woman-able if you get my drift.

[Baxtercat]

Thought I'd share this Tolex coffee table picture I came across this morning. Just needs a few ciggie burn marks.
[img768]http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h34 ... G_0251.jpg[/img]

[Reeltarded]

Hah! Neat. The logo should be inlaid though. I see coffee stains all over the rug.

[rdjones]

One option might be to get Fender guitar neck and body and other hdwre from eB#y and put together a Frankenguitar. Looks like it could be done for coupla hundred.

Sometimes bodies and necks go cheap if body has dings or needs paint

If you just want to throw together a "parts-caster", only the neck will present a cost challenge if you want something straight and playable.
Bodies and hardware are cheap and plentiful.
But as we all should know by now, if you want to nail the sound, the pickups are key.

I say bash one (or more) together !
Better yet put those old vintage pickups back in their original guitars and use the hybrids in the beaters. =-O

Good luck,
RedDog Steve
Nashville, TN

[LeftyStrat]

Years ago (circa 1978), I accidentally damaged a pickup in my '73 strat. Went to the local music shop and asked if they had any original strat pickups. The Dimarzio craze was in full bore at the time and the guy laughed and pulled out a box of original strat pickups.

I went through the box and noticed two with hand writing on the back "AY 10-31-66."

Bought one, took it home to replace the bad one, and it sounded so much better than my stock pickups I immediately went back to the store to purchase the other one.

Crazy part is he sold each pickup to me for $10.

I still have them, but until I can get one of those noise-cancelling backplane kits, they're sitting in a box. But I've yet to find anything close to the chime and bell-like tones. Low E sounds like a piano.

[Structo]

Yeah, old Abigail wound a mean pickup.

I wonder if she still does it? I know a few years ago she was winding for the Custom Shop Master Builder guitars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M2a1yUmvEQ

[gary sanders]

Fridge Magnets

i do that too.people come over and say what the hell is that????