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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."

Apr 14, 2021

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

Apr 14, 2021

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

Apr 14, 2021

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? "

Apr 13, 2021

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 . "

Apr 13, 2021

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 ."

Apr 13, 2021

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?"

Apr 13, 2021

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 .…"

Apr 13, 2021

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?"

Apr 13, 2021

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."

Apr 13, 2021

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! "

Apr 13, 2021

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…"

Apr 10, 2021

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?"

Apr 10, 2021

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 8, 2021

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, 2021

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, 2021

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

Posted on April 8, 2021 at 12:00am 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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