Some with a ferriet core and bifilar winding works.
I used two different types and both worked.
1: single layer bif 1mm wire, 100 windings on 1cm diam core.
2: 0,5mm wire bif on half moon core of old tv tube.
I dont have the specs from PT, but he used higher volts, big tube, 20cm diam toroid core..
With my tests on the joulethief i found out that twisted wire bifilar works great too.
Steve