Sold: Oily City Pickups - Airship Trooper and Dirty Secret - Masterwound

Elwood

The photo is from the Oil City Pickups website and is of the actual pickups. They are from August 2018 and to my shame are unused. Both are brushed covers with dual black pole pieces.

£115 105 posted SOLD 

Neck - Airship Trooper - standard spacing - 4 conductor - short legs
Inspired by a certain classic 60s/70s British rock band and their Les Paul wielding guitarist, for whom we at Oil City have a whole lot of love and respect.
 
A beefy and snarling yet classic voiced pickup that takes the 'PAF' concept and boosts it slightly without losing the clarity.
Punchy bas, glowing mids and a smooth clear top end characterise the tones available here. 
 
Perfect for classic rock of heavier blues, this versatile pickup will happily 'metal it up' too. A5 magnet. 

Bridge - Dirty Secret - f spacing - 4 conductor - short legs
A Jazz Blues (JB) tone monster the way it was before it came to Blows and stopped being your lover. Guitar pick is optional...A new hotrod for Surrey's favourite son.

For the modern player this a great pickup with lots of mids upfront. Team with a raging rectifier, Diezel, Engl etc and find a hard of nails tone that doesn't let up, yet remains musical. 43 gauge plain enamel wire and A5 magnet.

If you have any questions, please let me know.  

xscaramanga

Have you compared the Dirty Secret to a JB? What are your thoughts?

Elwood

@jonnyscaramanga ;I have not. I do have a JB/Jazz combo in guitar but have never had these in one. 

The main benefit for the Dirty Secret is to get the benefits of the mids that the older JB is famous for, without the full nasal quality that the modern JB can suffer from.

@Oilcitypickups may be able to better describe the differences. 

Troglodyte

The image doesn't work for me.

Elwood

I can still see it. Anyone else having issues?

@troglodyte can you see it via this link?
https://tinyurl.com/y2ssnxpf

axisus

Image fine for me. Cool looking pickups but I don't have anything to put them in

Troglodyte

Elwood said:

I can still see it. Anyone else having issues?

@troglodyte can you see it via this link?
https://tinyurl.com/y2ssnxpf

If I click on the link then it just downloads a .webp file. It seems to be Safari specific as I can see it in Chrome. 

Elwood

Thanks for the info @Troglodyte I'll see if I can change the host so it appears in Safari. 

Elwood

July bump

Elwood

 

Elwood

Bump

bad_alice

PMd

Elwood

Bump 

bad_alice

Just realised I completely forgot to get back to you about these @Elwood - apologies.
My missing Suhr pickup finally turned up in the post so I’m afraid I’m no longer interested in these. That said, they’re incredible pickups so have a bump on me and someone take these bad boys off @Elwood’s hands! #BARGAIN
 

Elwood

Thanks @bad_alice glad you are sorted. 

On a side note can you see the photo in the first post? Just checking as some members cannot see it.

bad_alice

No, I can’t see it either bud - there’s just a small square outline where I’m guessing the pic should be?
Gimme a shout if you need me to come back and check again if you find a way to reload it.
Happy to help

jaymenon

Photographs would be good...

bad_alice

@Elwood might be worth trying to upload the pics to Imgur and then share the link? That’s my go to solution on here anyway...

jaymenon

Here you go

https://imgur.com/G6Z7IXr

https://imgur.com/5Lm0V9H

Sauron

Hey, do you have the output of the Dirty Secret? Thanks!

Funkfingers

jonnyscaramanga said:

Have you compared the Dirty Secret to a JB? What are your thoughts?

FWIIW, I have tried a recent JB Trembucker, a late Nineties Maricela Juarez wound JB and an OCP Scrapyard Dog Plus in the same guitar. Not exactly the same as each other - not least because the SYD+ was covered.