For some while I've been making my 'Big Block' Masterwound single coil pickups for selected customers as a fully 'custom shop' option ... shortly they will be going up on my site so they will be easier to order.
Above is the 'Classic 60s' Tele: a standard 60s output, plain enamel wound, alnico 5 Tele pickup, with a proper steel baseplate ... in a humbucker shell ... so it will drop neatly into pretty much any guitar you fancy.
Available shortly: The Gain-Plus, a tribute to the cutting and jangly tones of a certain US guitar and bass manufacturer ... and the Blues-Block, classic Strat neck tones ... again, in a humbucker shell.
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Meanwhile, an obvious question for the OP. Is the Big Block format going to be available with your other T style pickups inside? e.g. Wapping Wharf with its coil tap for dual output levels, Kayman, Alligator et cetera.
I'm a huge single coil fan, so I will be trying to bring some of the lesser known SC designs within the grasp of those with a couple of humbucker routs to fill.
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In which physical format(s) will the Gain-Plus be offered? A coil tapped dual output level variant, perhaps?
Then, when you have done six impossible things before breakfast, is there chance of miniaturising a series-linked pair of Teletronix LA-2A compressors?
I have an unfinished Hamer XT Echotone project. Its neck/Rhythm position pickup is a Duncan SH-1N with an A4 magnet. I cannot settle on a bridge/Treble pickup. I quite fancy a TV Jones Classic in there but this will require special mounting adapter brackets.
One of these new-fangled pickups could suit the Hamer XT's mostly maple construction.
One of my humbucker sized Cow-Trons wouldn't
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I presume the Tele one would work best with 250k pots?
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To paraphrase Stephen Morrissey, how soon is shortly? Is the Gain-Plus at the prototyping stage?
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14k bridge, 11k neck. High tensile hex bolt poles, ceramic magnets (wound with 44awg as per the original Hi Gain (However ... not copying the Hi Gain faults of breaking if you look at em wrong!)
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Last month, I was asked to investigate a non-functional pickup on a 330-12. After all of the usual checks, I decided to unscrew the offending pickup to look for physical damage or stray objects causing a short. Found nowt. Refitted the pickup. Two days later, it decided to start working again.
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