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Southern Ray commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

" Great thread! I learned a lot from this one. Brain hurt."

18 hours ago

Peter Bryenton replied to Peter Skulecs's discussion Lockdown project: 30" scale 24 fret bass guitar in the group Wine Box Guitars

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Peter Bryenton replied to Peter Skulecs's discussion Lockdown project: 30" scale 24 fret bass guitar in the group Wine Box Guitars

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BrianQ. commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"I remember it, it kinda looked like a 60’s Burns with all the plastic control plates on the face? Line 6 pretty much has that modeling guit market sewn up with their Variax guitars tho? "

Tuesday

the anonymous pick commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"The Volkswagen guitar i mean . "

Tuesday

the anonymous pick commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Yeah . it had a good concept , but was generally considered a pos . Needed some more production tweeking me thinks ."

Tuesday

BrianQ. commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"That guitar has an onboard midi interface like the iRig software?"

Tuesday

the anonymous pick commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Thanks guys , It's spring cleanup nowadays in most places , a good time to look out for washer and driers , Older models have a end of cycle buzzer , usually located in the top right of the control panel .…"

Tuesday

BrianQ. commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Ray, best to use wall warts rated higher than 9 volts, the higher resistance will give a louder pickup?"

Tuesday

Southern Ray commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Thanks to Pick for the list. I knew of most of them, but not all. One thing to add, though. If the wall-wart doesn't have some heft to it, it likely doesn't have enough wire to do anything with."

Tuesday

Southern Ray commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Thank you Peter! Oh goody! I have another thing to tear apart! "

Tuesday

Peter Bryenton commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Info for BrianQ: The DC resistance of the pickup measured at the guitar's output jack socket is 7.3K ohms. The output level works very well with my Crate GT212 amp at between 3 and 4 on its gain knob. Subjectively it's loud to my…"

Sunday

BrianQ. commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Peter, did you measure the resistance of the pickup, is it loud?"

Sunday

Peter Bryenton commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"My thanks to the anonymous pick for listing potentially useful sources of small coils. When the UK allows car boot sales to re-open, I'll be rummaging through some piles of old stuff {:/)"

Apr 9

the anonymous pick commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Very cool . Vintage electric razors , buzzer type door bells , some small fire bells , old tattoo machines , aircraft headphones, wallwarts, all have use-able coils and parts too. lots of fun to be…"

Apr 8

Peter Bryenton commented on Peter Bryenton's blog post Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

"Thanks Ray. The coil which I salvaged is freely accessible inside the body of the toothbrush itself, not the one in the charger base unit. That's where I too was nearly stymied by all that potting compound resin. Then I realised that there had…"

Apr 8

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Make your own mini-humbucker pickup from a scrapped electric toothbrush

Posted on April 8, 2021 at 7:00am 15 Comments 1 Like

Question: what do you do with a “wirelessly” re-charged electric toothbrush when its battery eventually dies?

Answer: salvage the tiny induction coil from inside the sealed body of the toothbrush handle. It’s ideal for making your own pickups. All it needs is a magnetic core and some patient, fine wiring work.

I glued a stack of…

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