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so I've researched a bit about winding yer own pickups and stuff, but I want to do an acoustic pickup. what makes an acoustic pickup different from a regular electric guitar pickup?

Acoustic guitars usually use Piezo pickups which attach to the body and work off vibration and or a small mic type pickup stuck inside to capture the resonance... Unless you make something that fits the sound hole like the Seymour Duncan Woody's it may not work like you'd expect... In the 70's people put all kinds of Single Coils in the sound hole to try to capture the Acoustic to varying degrees of success... If you want to start winding pickups I would suggest staring with an Electrical Single Coil and working up when you get comfortable...

Greenfuz wrote:so I've researched a bit about winding yer own pickups and stuff, but I want to do an acoustic pickup. what makes an acoustic pickup different from a regular electric guitar pickup?

If you're talking about magnetic pickups, there's little difference, they're both magnetic.

I was thinking of doing somethin like that, which looks like a regular single coil? But is it like wired differently from a regular pickup? lower output?

Greenfuz wrote:

I was thinking of doing somethin like that, which looks like a regular single coil? But is it like wired differently from a regular pickup? lower output?

Good choice. Some of those DeArmonds sound really great. Yeah, that's a single coil, but DeArmond also made humbuckers.

You can wind the pickup however you want. It can be lower output if you want it to be. That'd probably sound better and cut down on the feedback. It kinda depends on what kind of sound you're going for. Some of my favorite transitional bluesmen played acoustic guitars with added sound hole pickups. (Think Elmore James and Big Joe Williams, just to name a couple.) It's definitely a great sound.

It should be wired the same as a magnetic pickup for a solid body guitar.