Electric guitar pickups are simple devices – just ... [Pete] began his build with a cheap sewing machine and added a tachometer and pickup mount. As an added bonus, [Pete] threw in an ohmmeter ...

The tone in question, is from his ES-150, and one of the earliest examples of an electric guitar pickup. Mounted on the neck position, the PM Special single-coil is custom-wound for that Christian ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...