Making your own electric guitar circuitry?

Question

i was going to make my own guitar instead of buying cheap ones and just changing them. i have absolutely no idea how to do the pickups though. i know what it should look like from custom building but as for making my own i have no idea. help?

Answer 1

Here is a good article on guitar pickups:

http://buildyourguitar.com/resources/lem...

Go to their home page for lots of other info.

I also like this site for guitar builders:

http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~gmarts/p...

And of course there is always HowStuffWorks site that is pretty good:

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/e...