What to do with spare cheap pickups

jkgchristmas

alright everyone.

got a few guitar kits that i only wanted for the body and neck, will adapt with new hardware to make something half decent

got a few pickups lying around that i imagine arent too great but dont wanna waste them.

anyone ever done anything interesting in a similar situation?

WezV

Fridge magnet?

brucegill

Lapsteel?

phil_b

dummy coil

jkgchristmas

WezV said:

Fridge magnet?

hah yeah, nice idea


maybe some kind of ridiculous tie clip

jkgchristmas

brucegill said:

Lapsteel?

this is precisely what i was thinking, but i figure if i go through the effort of building a lapsteel, probably want nice pickups

ICBM

Build a Nigel Tufnel replica . Even if the pickups aren't very good it should sound quite good with eight coils in series. Or at least loud.

Funkfingers

Paper weights.

Sell 'em to skint project guitar assemblers on t'Interweb.

pintspiller

Post them on here or eBay for pocket money prices.

Roland

The ones which came with this kit were binned. They weren’t worth the cost of postage.

Headphones

You could use them to make a hum cancelling arrangement for your better single coils.

Dodge

Learn how to rewind them?

Funkfingers

Unwinding and rewinding copper wire coils is a learning experience and a half. Mostly, you will learn how time-consuming it is. Factor in your time at £n per hour and doing it yourself quickly becomes uneconomic.

Arguably, a better way to experiment with surplus cheap humbuckers is to replace the brass baseplate with a steel one. Upgrading the output cable to 4-con + shield format would allow experimentation with clever coil switching options. By this method, something useful can be learned. Maybe, a knackered old guitar can be made operational again?