How to make a 59/Custom Hybrid

[El Chiguete]

Check this thread on the Seymour Duncan forum http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=22538 is on how to combine this two pickups together. I would really love to try one of those someday. What do you all think?

[Newc]

This is something I may try. I've got a dead Dimebucker that may be willing to volunteer.

This brings up an interesting point: what about swapping the bar magnet with an electromagnet hooked to a pot that controls how much juice it's getting?

Could you go from say Jazz (low output) to Distortion (high output) to Sustainer?

[dg]

That would be an interesting thing to try. My guess is that there would be all kinds of interference from the coils of the electromagnet. It would be some kind of weird coil-within-a-coil arrangement, with the coils wound perpendicular to each other if I'm picturing it right. Then I'm wondering if there would be more interference from the pot controlling the voltage, kinda like what you get from a dimmer switch.

[Newc]

Actually I should have said that the pickup coil itself would be the wire for the electromagnet, which would just be a metal bar in the center of the coils with voltage applied to it.

Probably work better with a blade-style than a pole/screw type.

[DonP]

Actually I should have said that the pickup coil itself would be the wire for the electromagnet, which would just be a metal bar in the center of the coils with voltage applied to it.

Probably work better with a blade-style than a pole/screw type.

I don't think it would work.

The way you make a voltage is by having a magnetic field pass through a conductor. If the coil is supplying the power for the magnet (by having a DC voltage pass through the coil), I'm not sure an AC voltage could still be created by the strings passing through the magnetic field generated.

Also, the resistance of the pickup coil is way to high to create a very good magnetic field. You need a low resistance coil (< 1K ohms) to generate a magnetic field, the lower the resistance, the better the magnet.

You would also need a battery to power the magnetic field. Since you are connecting one end of the pickup to the positive of the battery, and the other end to the negative end of the battery, it's like having a short, which will quickly drain the battery dry.

[Newc]

So this wouldn't work then?

http://education.jlab.org/qa/electromagnet.html