There are a few things you can do if you’re winding or making a pickup from scratch.

Wind a single coil (like a Stratocaster bobbin) using two different gauges of magnet wire and wind them both together. Try using a 43 and 44 gauge magnet wire. You would need to put an extra eyelet in the bobbin or run an extra wire out from the coil when finished. Start both the 43 and 44 gauge magnet wires in your beginning eyelet. Try hand winding and guiding both wires at the same time and fill the coil to the maximum amount. Carefully wind without making the coil overwound or too fat. You need to put your cover back on. Take one of the two wires and connect it to another eyelet. If you put in an extra eyelet, connect the 3rd coil wire to it. Connect the magnet wire to the third eyelet or lead wire. Solder the eyelet’s and your pickup will have three leads coming out. The beginning two wires in the eyelet should be connected to ground and the other two wires can be connected to their separate volume control that’s connected to one side of the stereo jack. Using a stereo guitar cable plugged into separate amplifiers. You will get different frequencies out of each amp. It’s great for recording and you can switch between the coils or use both.

Materials Needed:

– Single Coil Bobbin with extra eyelet or terminals for connecting magnet wires.

– 43 & 44 gauge of magnet wire. I use 43 & 44 gauge magnet wire as the larger gauge makes the coils too fat and you can’t wind enough turns for increased output.

– Solder lead wires to the three eyelet’s. The beginning eyelet connected to ground. the 2nd & 3rd eyelet’s are connected to the right & left side of the jack or separate volumes if you wish first.

– You can design custom circuits & switching for this kind of pickup.

You can use a tapped pickup and run each side of the tapped coil to separate amps or channels. The pickup is not true stereo with the strings going left / right but the different frequencies offers you an interesting sound. I did this for Adrian Belew years ago when we both lived in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Adrian’s Gibson Firebird had three pickups and I wired it so each pickup could go out the right, left or both channels.