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[Valve Child] has been building a few three-string cigar box guitars. Of course he'll need a few pickups, but three-string guitar pickups aren't exactly easy to come by. To solve this problem, he's built a guitar pickup winder powered by a steam engine. The pickup winder is powered by a Wilesco D20 model steam engine, connected to the actual winding mechanism via a rubber belt. To the right of … [Read more...]
After a bit of inspiration, [Pete] decided to build a solid body electric guitar for himself. Instead of assembling a conglomeration of off-the-shelf parts, he plans on building just about everything from scratch. This includes the guitar pickups, so he built himself a pickup winder that has measures RPM, ETA until done, and auto stop for when the pickup is complete. Electric guitar pickups are … [Read more...]
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