Diddley Bow Test

Inspired by Jack White in It Might Get Loud. Hand-wound pickup with hard drive magnet. Super high tech!
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  • Trick pup; excellent!

  • Very cool. I just gotta break down and make a pup like that some day... so much to do. Cool, thanks so much for the details! -Glenn

  • This is the classic ghetto DIY pickup. Bought a wall wart transformer at a thrift store and salvaged the copper wire. Wound it on a sewing machine (!), wrapped it with hockey tape and potted it in my wife's Scentcy for a while. Core is a sawed-off bolt. I've since swapped out the hd magnet for a couple of the Harbor Freight button magnets.

    Output is a little weak overall but tone is good... I guess. One string, no body, eyebolt tuner, pickle jar for a bridge. Define "good" for me please :-) Maybe I'll record it soon and let everyone else be the judge.

  • Hal! GOTTA tell us how that pickup sounds bro! Coolness! -Glenn

  • Love those homemade pups.
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