A large box pf Oil City Masterwound pickups heading for Feline Guitars ... mostly Masterwound Blackbirds, but with some other goodies including the first of our Masterwound Pat-63 sets. those who follow my workshop exploits will probably remember I rebuilt a pair of wonderful 63 Gibson 'patent label' humbuckers for an old SG a while back. Those were fascinating 'transition, pickups with many PAF features, but also some unique 60s ones. They sounded great, so I have lovingly recreated them, butyrate bobbins, rough cast magnets, vintage correct wire and all the goodies. These will be on sale shortly, and for those who want a unique and vintage flavour of the early sixties they will be spot on.
Look out soon for some rather special Blackbird 'Full Afterburner' sets ...
The new Oil City Masterwound Djenerator super high output metal humbucker set, the brain creaming, stoner metal H.E.L humbucker set
and loads more 'True Vintage' offerings.
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They are going to be great.
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Just means it can get completely filthy with the best of them, with a very tight, aggressive sound that's just loose and open enough to be very, very happy covering old school les paul type tunes without sounding horribly out of place.
They split nicely, too, nothing like a single coil - more focused p90 to my ears.
I think the bridge has the unique triple magnet thing going on, and I can vouch that the efforts pay off. It just works - probably the second most versatile pickups I've used, behind a standard vintage PAF (which really doesn't "do" modern metal).
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