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FelineGuitars

TheGuitarWeasel;198296" said:

The first public outing of the new humbucker designed with Jonathan from Feline ... look in the single pickup LP :-) The Treatment in full swing:

http://live.mytaratata.com/emission/taratata-n488/video/4794/the-treatment-highway-to-hell-2014-multicam

The SG has one in as well....so both are OCP powered.

FelineGuitars

Oh - quick update (better pics will follow)

Just assembled a new V and put a pair of experimental pickups Ash & I cooked up

I wanted something that would let me deal with my two favourite "Obsessions" (sic) Michael Schenker and early Kiss

So Ash and I tinkered around with ideas around the Nightfighter , but moreso looking back at very early Dimarzio Super Distortions before they felt the need to increase the power and spoil the recipe.

Ash worked his magic and the first prototypes were born......

The results from first impressions are very good.

So far blasting out some UFO, MSG, Kiss and Randy Rhoads era Ozzy it nails the tone.

It is pretty perfect for that NWOBHM era metal to my ears.

More tests will follow

ThePrettyDamned

FelineGuitars said:

Oh - quick update (better pics will follow)

Just assembled a new V and put a pair of experimental pickups Ash & I cooked up

I wanted something that would let me deal with my two favourite "Obsessions" (sic) Michael Schenker and early Kiss

So Ash and I tinkered around with ideas around the Nightfighter , but moreso looking back at very early Dimarzio Super Distortions before they felt the need to increase the power and spoil the recipe.

Ash worked his magic and the first prototypes were born......

The results from first impressions are very good.

So far blasting out some UFO, MSG, Kiss and Randy Rhoads era Ozzy it nails the tone.

It is pretty perfect for that NWOBHM era metal to my ears.

More tests will follow

Oh man, that sounds awesome.

I'm really excited to getting another set of OCP's.  

OilCityPickups

At the moment @FelineGuitars and I have the twin Vs of evil my own 67 Epi is sporting the same new prototype in the bridge, with a Scrapyard Dog Plus in the neck.

The eagle eyed will have noticed I've removed my Stetsbar. The trouble I find with a trem on a guitar I use as regularly as this ... is that I spend all my time playing with the 'waggle stick', and not enough on my technique ... so off it came. Still the best 'Gibbotrem' in my books mind.

Gagaryn

Hi Ash - just PM'd you about the order I mentioned. :-)

Evilmags

Thing as that pickup married to a Floyd sounds fun....

samzadgan

i like the sound of all these new experimental pickups...makes me wish i had another guitar!

drwiddly

Just put a Nightfighter (B) and a Scrapyard Dog + (N) in my Eggle Berlin Deluxe ....... Oh lawdy!

Always thought the SD's that were in there sounded a bit meh! but these sound HUGE!

Thanks Ash :-)

OilCityPickups

Ah the Eggle has landed then! :-)


I'll get me coat ....


Glad you like em mate ...

DrBob

And now I'm obsessing about a single pickup V either Korina 58 style or maybe more 67 ri made by Jonathan with one of Ash's double cream Oil City SD prototypes slammed in the bridge pickup hole

Chris Spedding would I'm sure approve....

FelineGuitars

Here is the clearer picture of the white V90 - click to supersize!

samzadgan

Very nice!!!

Fez

That's a beauty

EricTheWeary

World's worst photographer strikes again! Still, thought I would show it in situ.

Gagaryn

EricTheWeary said:

World's worst photographer strikes again! Still, thought I would show it in situ.

If Salvador Dali could take photographs...

EricTheWeary

hah! I don't know why my camera phone photos go wonky when I put them on here, they aren't wonky on my phone or on photobucket.

nutbox

Hi there, I am in the process on sorting out parts for a guitar I am building,I have an ibanez rg shaped alder body and has HSH configured pickups routed in the body. Not knowing much about pickups and the science involed in choosing what sort I want ,i was wondering if you could help me in choosing the pickups that would suite the sound I am after. In the bridge position I am look for a pickup that growls and has a chunk chunk sound like Zakk wylde has. The neck position I do like a bluesy tone that with good sustain. As for the middle single coil what ever would compliment he other pickups. Anyway the sounds I am aiming for are something like dimebag darrell,Zakk wylde and the like so all suggestion welcomed as the is my first guitar build and I have only been playing for a year . Cheers dazz

impmann

Hey Ash,

I think you ought to start thinking about Offset guitar pickups, mate... Howabout a Jazzmaster set where the neck pickup is big, open and deep (like a good vintage one) and a bridge unit that keeps that depth and open sound, but with some warmth and fatness (think of it as a Jazzmaster version of the Broadcaster pickup, but not a Tele pickup shoved into a JM form-factor)...

I think they'd sell in spades, mate.

meltedbuzzbox

Anything coming for us offseters Mr Weasel?

juansolo

When are these old SD-a-likes gonna be for sale... /interested.