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John Fisher created an excellent description and pictures of making a humbucker pickup.
The best advice for pickup builders might be a book called Guitar Pickup Winding And Guide to Making Your Own Winder, but I haven't gotten it yet. John Atchley provides the most useful information on how to understand pickups and reduce hum in guitar electronics for people who know how to solder. Electric Guitar Pickups is a frank and insightful viewpoint on the design and construction of pickups.
You can read opinions about pickups from the large Harmony Central Guitar: The Electric Guitar Pickup Database. Seymour Duncan's site includes an interesting chart of pickup characteristics such as pickup resonant frequency, which I haven't seen elsewhere.
The Secrets of Electric Guitar Pickups by Helmuth E. W. Lemme is a good technical article on pickups.
A Kettering University by Dan Russell site with Vibration and Waves Animations can help you understand what pickups are supposed to be doing. It was mighty swell of the people at Gibson to fund the modal analysis of the Gibson Hummingbird. I also like the Vibration of a Fixed-Fixed String analysis.
An analysis by J. Donald Tillman on Response Effects of Guitar Pickup Position and Width has an in-depth analysis of the vibrating string and pickup placement. I am impressed that the accompanying java applet, Pickup Response Demonstration Applet seems to run properly in my Netscape browser on Linux.
Vintage Fender pickups specifications and information includes interesting design and reliability information.
Parts-is-Parts has parts for winding your own pickups, including 42 gauge magnet wire and bobbins. They also have complete pickups and other parts for sale.
I wouldn't want to try to maintain a list of Guitar Builders and Repairers. Keeping it current would be too difficult! You would need to keep up with hundreds of links like these:
Joe Paradiso's site on Electronic Music Interfaces is often plagairized and seldom quoted. If people want to use the benefits of MIT research, they ought to at least write a footnote!
The sustainiac looks interesting.
Someday all pickups might use Audio Optics.
You can use .wav files on you computer to manipulate digitized sounds.