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  • Dan F June 12, 2012 at 11:45am

    You might find some useful ideas here: http://vulpestruments.blogspot.com/search/label/Instruments

    This innovative builder uses small electric motors as pickups.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2KhDjHjMuoY

    • bill > Dan F June 22, 2012 at 5:21pm

      that electric motor pickup was pretty cool.  that guy has a heck of an imagination lots o stuff there

  • Billy Jackson June 12, 2012 at 10:25am

    Those shake lights look cool.  I'm going to have to rip some hard drives apart now and then look into surplus speakers I think. I may just do the math too to figure out how much a change in magnet strength impacts the output of the pup.  Another thought I got from a lawnmower repair shop was perhaps flywheels.  Interesting.....

    Thanks ya'll...

  • Ron "Oily" Sprague June 11, 2012 at 2:12am

    Magnets are cheap (free from dead hard drives, old landline telephone handset voice coils, old kids toys, etc.). Someone around here at CBN has also used whiteboard / refrigerator magnets. Magnets can also be purchased relatively cheaply off of eBay in a variety of configurations (cylindrical, circular, bar, etc.).

    Staring at the magnetic walls of my office just now, I've been wondering how you might construct a p'up from 3M magnetic strips - maybe a stack 'em up into a Flatpup sort of design? Hmm.

     

  • Billy Jackson June 11, 2012 at 2:01am

    okeedokee.  was thinking maybe hard drives.  i have c

    a couple around here somewhere.  dunno what a shake flashlight is though....

  • The Phrygian Kid June 11, 2012 at 1:05am
    I started winding with magnets from dead harddrives. The bigger desktop ones have two big ones in em.
    • Dan F > The Phrygian Kid June 11, 2012 at 2:05am

      Would the voice coil of a hard drive or the wire in it be useful to make a pickup?

  • the anonymous pick June 11, 2012 at 12:24am

    if you got one of those shake flashlights  lying around ,  they  have a honker strong magnet  in  em ..    not to  mention  a mile or so   of pickup wire  .


    speakers are great to   but can be a pain to  get the magnets out .

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