Creating Humbucker pickups from Single Coils

[Synth]

I have two guitars, both have Single coil pick ups. One of the guitars I use just use for spair parts for the other. I want to take the pick ups from that guitar and put them togather to create humbuckers. The pickups arn't that great, but I want to use this as a test. I'm sure someone has tried this befor, but I can't find any information about it. Anyone have any ideas?

[Compyfox]

Humbucker coils are coils where one is winded up to create a "negative" polarisation, and the other "positive polarisation". At least in the theory. So using 2 normal coils wouldn't work.

Not to mention that you'd make the coil slots bigger (with a mills or something) to fit a humbucker in it. Too much work and a lot can go wrong.

I wanted to do this with my guitar too (instead of having a single coil at the fretboard a humbucker), but my befriended guitar players all didn't recommend that and said "get a real humbucker instead".

It's up to you.

[Sixto]

I've never even heard of anyome suggesting such a thing...I doubt it can even be done. You want to cancel hum? Activate two single coil pickups. You want a humbucking sound? Get a good humbucker. For Strats with single coil slots, you can't go wrong with Seymour Duncan Hot Rails.

[k u n g f u c h i c k e n]

funny, my friend jeff tried this. needless to say, don't do it

[SnappleMan]

not only are hot rails quieter than most traditional humbuckers but they're also EXTREMELY high output. This makes them wonderful pickups.

I had one in the neck position of my EVH custom strat, and I can't tell you what a badass tone I got. Unlike anything else I've ever used. Great for fingertapping too!

[k u n g f u c h i c k e n]

Snap, while we are on the subject, I modded my normal humbucker already, but how would that hotrails sound in the neck position?

EDIT - oops, i missed where you said "neck" lol. I will most DEF be getting one. They are inexpensive too!

[Synth]

Ok, so I can't turn two single coils into a humbucker, but if I put two togather, would it even work? I wanna experment with pickups to get my own custom tone.

[Sixto]

Your custom tone would sound like crap if you tried that, trust me. Not worth the effort. Just buy a decent humbucker.