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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
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I've got a set of ocp blades, though apparently the magnets are normal (if having three magnets in an Alnico 8/ceramic sandwich is normal!).
They look boss and sound the nuts. Hope you like yours as much as I like mine! The white looks fabulous.
Yummy. Which reminds me, I need to order my strat pickups...
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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!
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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!
We just got our first review for the Blackbird pickups.
They went out in this B6 a while back.
Jack who bought the guitar emailed me this..........
Hey man, just to let you know I've had a chance to sit down and play the new BM through my rig and check out the protos in my environment.
I've found that for high gain rhythm they break up in a really nice way, though act like a completely different beast to my BKP guitars.
Unlike anything I've ever heard!
To my ear they're best rhythmically at mid-gain where they begin to pick up a nice crunch.
As for leads and cleans though, my god these pickups sing.
I don't think I'll ever use my Blackhawks for lead or clean playing again.
Huge amounts of character, hugely musical and my jaw dropped when I pushed it through my lead settings.
These pickups are really something else, and while they're not what I'd go for for my tight, aggressive rhythms, I can gather that that was not your focus, and what you and Doug have pulled out the bag is the most musical and sweet pickup I've ever used.
Never heard strings sing quite like this!
Thanks again Jon, always a pleasure, and if you guys want a "demo" of them set up for their official release I'll be happy to throw something together!
Cheers man!
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!
Jonathan, is guitar A for sale? If so, can I call dibs and I'll speak to you about it this week?
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 ASLHavoc is the hottest pickup I currently wind, and, I believe has a pretty-well unique set of features:
At 16k it doesn't appear that hot, and indeed clean, it is balanced and comes with a nice range of top harmonics as well as a huge, fast tracking bass.
The Bobbins and magnets are the magic ingredients. At 50% taller than standard humbucker bobbins they allow more wire in the magnetic sweet spot, and their taller coils 'read' top frequencies better. This means a sharpness and clarity far closer to a single coil.
The final part of the picture is the 'engine room': nestling between the low carbon steel blades is a large alnico 8 bar magnet, powerful enough on its own to drive an amp very hard ... however without the grainy,brittle edge ceramics tend to impart. Added to the main alnico 8 magnet are two smaller ceramic 'outrigger magnets, their polarity calculated to act like a P90 and de-focus the field slightly, while adding more power.
What you end up with is a super musical, very wide range and high power pickup. One that splits naturally and has a very usable and powerful single coil tone in that mode.
It Is built for metal and rock .... but I regularly crank out blues on mine :-)
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
It actually does classic metal and hard rock brilliantly, and loves modern high gain, but it's not a super tight focused mid tone, like a JB. which is the ultimate one trick pony! It has a sense of depth that the JB lacks, almost like it's mated with a paf and a p90.
And with extra output on top!
Actually, when I was using them (before I gave up on the tuning stability!) I spent as much time on the coil split as I did hitting out modern high gain. They sound like a cross between a p90 and a strat pickup! Very cool indeed, and they don't have a very harsh top end like most other split coils - bright, but not harsh.
Super pickup. I will be buying more, no doubt. I suspect it'll sound AWESOME on a baritone or heavily down tuned guitar, the bass is very present (unlike my Duncan custom 5, for example) but it's not overpowering and remains tight enough for rawk.
I loves them as soon as my new tuners arrive from schaller, I'll be taking it to feline and setting it up. Once that's done, I'll do some clean and crunchy demos with plugins comparing it to the duncans I have, it'll really show off the improvements.
Thats got me excited to get it in the guitar I had not considered adding a coil tap for this, just a single volume in the original plan - but i did route the control cavity quite large for future options so a switch may get added, maybe just a push/pull for now. I still have to do a bit of a recarve on the neck before i get around to installing this. I left it quite chunky, but the guitar feels built for speed and like it needs something slimmer (plays like butter I tell thee!!!)
I wired it up with a gibson 490T just for testing purposes. It already sounds fantastic and really liveley, like a thin bodied lightweight single pickup guitar should. It always creates a bit of a dilema when you put a test pickup in a guitar and it happens to sound fantastic, but I can't wait to get the ASL in there!!
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