"Making an air coil for an old Hoyer/Framus"
https://tymguitars.com.au/blogs/blog/making-an-air-coil-for-an-old-hoyer-framus
"Making an air coil in a Gibson humbucker case using Litz wire"
I don't know if anyone has done this before: my first hand-wound not-even-prototype open-coil Litz wire guitar pickup works far better than I ever expected!
I expected to hear something, but what I’ve got sounds very much like a Jazzmaster pickup - only better. It’s clean, with little-to-no mains hum (due to the shortness of the wire). It is treblely, but not excessively so, and I can easily tone that down with a different tone cap and a metal pickup cover rather than the cheap plastic one I am using. This is amazing - big wide single-coil, glued onto the top of a plastic Gibson Humbucker cover with an Alnico magnet located in the middle of the coil (losely) and using a brass baseplate. That’s four parts - and clean.
A shot in the dark (literally) and I hit the bullseye!
