One Last Item

Well, I pretty much finished the parts I could make over here for my steel guitar. Which means they're all in a little box winging their way to Canada as we speak. A couple of posts back I showed you the core for a pickup that I had made. All I had to do was wind crap loads of very very thin wire onto it and it would become a functional guitar pickup. I don't know if my fingers are too big or the wire is too small but after three tries I began looking for an alternative. I ended up using the coils from 4pole relays that I found in one of the scrap heaps. Then it was just a matter of making a case and pole pieces for it and ta da....pickup!

Seven more days in the pit and I get to go home for a couple of weeks. That will be my second to last run out and then I'm done. No more New Caledonia for me, but you know four years is more than enough.