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Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
The pickup parts are 'rubber banded' together on their nickel baseplates ...with their respective magnets according to unit type ... ready to be wound.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Bean-O
Inspired by late 50s pickups that set the blues rock world alight in the mid to late 60s.
Electric Blues that "burst" out the Thames Delta (South London) rather than the Mississippi delta.
Yes - it's a classic late 50s PAF and does all that you'd expect of it.
42 gauge plain enamel wire. Alnico 4 magnets. Slight overwind.
Dyna-Mite
Inspired by mid 60s T Top humbuckers.
Pure TNT in the hands of certain Young players, creating Thunder from down under.
Really it's the sound of the late 60s and early 70s
42gauge wire Alnico5 magnets. Controlled wind.
Riot-Act (Paf 7.3)
Inspired by some of the PAFs from the mid 70s where Alnico 3 was used
(Alnico3 has no cobalt in it and cobalt was scarce in the mid-70s as it was used in nuclear warheads)
Smooth top end and able to be very clean , but dirties up well with pedals or amp gain.
Great as a jazz/blues neck pickup or for those who want to ride the Crazy Train (Randy Rhoads' White LP had this type of pickups in it)
42gauge wire. controlled wind. Alnico3
Tour-84
My pet project - I wanted a slightly raunchy PAF style pickup loaded with an alnico5 magnet, where you had just the right mix of low end authority, but with sparkle on the top end. We used a careful mix of 42 gauge wires to achieve this.
It's a great all rounder and has a great clean sound, but is pretty rude with a crunchy amp.
It is a pickup that works well with late 70s through early to mid 80s tones.
Sounding like it powered bands of that era from small clubs to mega stadium rock - we simply called it the Tour 84.
42 gauge wire. Alnico5 magnet
Eruption
You probably don't need too much introduction to this one.
An overwound hot-rod of a pickup - where the mids are nice and fat, yet the top end and bottom end also stand out.
Sounding like a blend of humbucker and single coil for a tone as brown as they come.
42 gauge wire Alnico 5 magnet
‘Sid’
We took a classic vintage neck humbucker and opened up the mids a little to give a great neck pickup for both chords and single note playing.
42 gauge wire Alnico 4 magnet
Transonic-70
An homage to a mid 70s New York powerhouse
It fuelled the late 70s rock scene and the NWOBHM almost couldn't have existed without it
Meanwhile New York's finest facepainted arena rockers used it to rock and roll (all night)
43 gauge wire. triple ceramic magnets
TubeSnake
The Tubesnake lets you boogie all the way from Texas to the Snakepits of Los Angeles
So whether you favour a ten gallon hat or a tophat this pickup will provide the sizzle.
On a serious note it's a slightly fat and aggressive PAF with an alnico2 magnet for sweet highs and a buttery low end.
The bridge unit can rock out whilst the neck pickup really sings.
42 gauge wire alnico2 magnets
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
Guitar is £1899 if anyone fancies buying her
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
A 'customer ordered' pink Transonic :-)
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
It's interesting to compare it to the TS70 in a V. In the V it almost sounds scooped in comparison to the Mustang that is much more middy. Not as in your face as it is with the V, but still loads of tight, tight bottom and crunchy highs. Lots of nice 70's growl.
The Eddie is brilliant. I wanted a matching high gain neck pup that split well. I have a favorite for this and Ash set about to make something in that ballpark and I think he's nailed it. No mud whatsoever. Clear as a bell, even more so when it's split and it sounds genuinely single coily.
The Mustang called for some interesting wiring. I went with series/split/parallel with a standard 3 way. Lots of people complain about the noise with a PS Mustang Special and I can happily say I've had no such issues. No need to shield the guitar at all, even for split mode. It's lovely and quiet. Considering I've stuck with the standard electronics (I did swap the cap, but otherwise the switches, wiring and pots are all stock), there's nothing wrong with them. Nice.
The only thing I didn't do was get a wide spaced TS70. Purely because they're likely to end up in something else at some point so to keep the options open I stuck with regular spacing. Only an aesthetic thing really. Saying that, I'm REALLY liking them in the Mustang. For such a small and light guitar it sounds f**king huge with these in. Cool as f**k.
The Eddie design had been in my head for a while ... so I made some tweaks to develop it to to your specs ... and I do believe the name will stick :-)
It's always been a quandary knowing what to pair ... er ... a 70s style, distortion oriented bridge pickup with ... I think Eddie holds his own!
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
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Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
Sorry for the thread de-rail.