Customisable looks
Unpredictable & unique
Other colours are available on request
Customisable looks
All my humbuckers are Hand-wound & mounted onto quality Nickel silver baseplate with wooden spacers. These are carefully mismatched to produce a wonderful musical clarity throughout the sonic spectrum.
Wired with 4 output wire as standard:
Red Hot, White (N) to Yellow (S), Black Earth.
Humbucker sizes - 50mm Neck & 52mm Bridge.
Available covered or uncovered. See below for Options
Two purchasing options:
1: Buy my models from the shop section below - use drop down menus to customise.
2. For non-standard orders get in touch: Here
Provenance
True Vintage Alnico II
First there was the Single Coil and it was Good. Then there came the Humbucker..............
With a nod to the first great humbuckers I present my take on the originals; Both Neck & Bridge have the same output and 50mm pole to pole. Both covered.
To balance the neck with the bridge it is placed lower relative to the strings, resulting in a clearer neck tone with less string pull. Sandcast Alnico II give a creamy smoothness with beautiful sweet clarity.
One for the Tone Fiends!
Both 7.6k 4.4H
£194 set
Elysium
Vintage Alnico IV
With an even EQ response, these will make a good guitar sound awesome. Best on warm tone woods with hard tops, these produce that classic PAF tone and versatile enough for most genres. My recommendation.
Neck 7.2k 3.9H
Bridge 8.0k 4.8H
From £85
7T
Vintage Alnico V
Based on late 60's - 70's pickups. Equal low output in Neck & Middle & Matched bobbins gives a characteristic & popular voice. 50 & 52mm spacing.
Both 7.3-7,5k 4.2-4.3H
From £85
Paradise
Vintage Alnico III
Mellow warm tones and singing sustain. These have a woody tone in the neck and warm mellow bridge. A sultry vibe dripping with smooth. Hollow body paradise.
Neck 7.2k 3.9H
Bridge 8.0k 4.8H
From £85
Home
Vintage Alnico V
Classic humbucker punch and clarity. Controlled bass with clear punch in top and scooped mids. I called it Home because you know where you are with this combo. Classic rock. At home in Maple & Mahogany.
Neck 7.2k 3.9H
Bridge 8.0k 4.8H
From £85
Heaven
Vintage Alnico II
With a more mids and cleaner highs, these can push an amp into sweet distortion or lick up smooth vintage cleans. Versatile enough for jazz to rock. Nicely suited to brighter light woods.
Neck 7.2k 3.9H
Bridge 8.0k 4.8H
From £85
The Blender
Vintage/Hot Alnico V
This pickup combines two different wire gauges to give a rich complex tone.
The thicker 42awg wire has the clarity of voice and articulation to be expected of a vintage style pickups. The thinner 43awg wire adds a touch of warmth and drive to the mix, resulting in a pickup with the openness of a vintage pickup with a warm powerful tone of a more modern voiced pickup.
Neck 8.3k 4.1H
Bridge 9.4k 5.0H
From £85
Purgatory
Medium Alnico V
Overwound with thinner wire these are more powerful than Hot-Vintage, having more attack and power but not as crazy as modern super-hot pickups, so still versatile enough to play clean. Medium output.
Neck 10.9k 5.9H
Bridge 14.0k 8.9H
From £85
Hell Lv8
Hot Alnico VIII
Overwound with thin wire, these offer up-most power. Clear highs with controlled mids & bass.
Neck 14k Bridge 18k
From £93
SuperBlend
Medium Alnico V
The winding recipe of the Purgatory, with the mismatched wire thickness of the Blends.
One coil of AWG 43, and one of AWG 44 wound to Medium/Hot levels.
Adds a tighter, more complex voice to the Purgatory set.
Neck 11.5k 5.3H
Bridge 16.6k 9.2H
From £85
Hell RockBottom
Hot Ceramic
Overwound with thin wire, these offer up-most power. Unpleasant for clean tones, these will get you noticed. Clear highs, thumping bass & spongy mids.
Will accommodate extra magnets for extra madness
Neck 14k Bridge 18k
From £85
Hell Lv5
Hot Alnico V
Overwound with thin wire, these offer up-most power. Perhaps too attacking for clean tones, these will rip the house down. Reasonably balanced tones with thick mids
Neck 14k Bridge 18k
From £85
NeoHell
Neodymium!
Is it puerile and childish to use Neodymium Rare Earth, super-strong magnets overwound to silliness?? Yes.
Not one for the vintage tone seekers
Violent & loud, like being punched in the ear, but funny.
Surprisingly dynamic & musical considering & highly addictive through a tube amp
Bridge 20k
From £98
Optional Extras
From £20
AmpCloth'd
First pick your Open Cover:
Chrome, Nickel, Raw Nickel, Gold or Matt Black
Then pick your Amp Cloth:
Salt n Pepper (pictured) & F' Silverface in stock -Contact me directly to discuss this option.
£12 (Gold £15)
Covered HBs
Pickups come Uncovered as Standard in Black, Cream or Zebra - 6 screw.
Covers available through direct orders are standard 6 screw. These are available in: Unplated Raw Nickel, Chrome, Nickel or Gold.
Optional extras not available directly are:
Uncovered pickups; 12 screw or 12 slug
Covers in 12 screw, 3x3, 11-Gate, H-Gate, Covered/no-holes, Half-open & Open. Contact me directly to discuss this option.
+£5 each
Relic'd HB
Artificially aged or Relic'd covers for old looking pickups into old guitars
Only available in plated Nickel or Gold (Chrome doesn't relic well with the method I use).
Each relic'd cover will age differently and look different.
+£15
Rail'd HB
Solid metal rails in place of slugs/screws. More steel in the pickup produces higher definition and clarity.
More suited to higher output pickups where more definition is needed at higher gain, but available for any given pickups spec.
Available as: Thin or Fat rails.
Black, Gold or Chrome Rails
Black or Cream bobbins
+£2
Sandcast HB
Standard Alnico magnets used are polished & shiny. Sand-cast magnets are available, in keeping with very early pickups, for a more genuine PAF sound. The rough surface disturbs the distribution of the magnetic field, resulting in a slight reduction of top end, to give a smoother voiced tone.
From £12
Foil'd
First pick your Open or Half-open Cover:
Chrome, Nickel, Raw Nickel, Gold or Matt Black
Then pick your Aluminium foil:
Silver, Gold, Black, Blue or Pink!
or
Steel Mesh:
Chrome, Nickel, Gold or Matt Black. Contact me directly to discuss this option.
No extra cost
Overwound Underwound
Most Vintage wound Pickups can be Overwound to Vintage-Hot wind for more presence and for brighter guitars or just for a bit more grunt and a more modern sound.
All Pickups can be Underwound up to 10% for more clarity or for dark or hollow guitars. Contact me directly to discuss this option.