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  • ’67 Strat Pickup

    ’67 Strat Pickup

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    As an upgrade from the cheap stock pickup in my musicmaster I started with some strat pickup flatwork and some alnico 2 slugs. I wanted to go for something that would clean up nicely and have a bit of that cheap vintage (maxxon/guyatone) guitar vibe so I went with somewhat of an under-wind at around…

  • Musicmaster

    Musicmaster

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    I’ve always liked the idea of a single pickup guitar with no controls (a-la Mac Demarco’s guitar), so I took the plunge. I started with a dirt cheap squire sonic mustang, and I wanted something a similar vibe but with more tuning stability. Here’s what I did: Redoing the original headstock with a spare decal,…

  • Bass Mini-Humbucker

    Bass Mini-Humbucker

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    I really wanted to upgrade the pickup in my Beatles Bass but unfortunately I really couldn’t find many Bass mini humbuckers on the market. …So I designed and built one! Please hmu if you want one of these, I’d be happy to make more! weaver.pickups@gmail.com This one started with some CAD, design and a dry-fit…

  • Dad Bass

    Dad Bass

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    My Father recently got into playing bass and I wanted to make him something special. I started with a Jazz bass kit from solo and had the idea of grain filling it and dying it a reddish colour. For the headstock I added a decal and really dressed it up, also gave it some really…

  • Beatles Bass

    Beatles Bass

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    I really wanted to dig into some 60s psychedelic rock tone and I wanted to try the whole short scale flat wound sound. Towards this end, I got a Hofner style hollow body kit and dressed it up a fair bit with a bunch of acrylic paints and some really zen painting sessions… Gluing the…

  • Guyatone EB-25 Pickup Rewind

    Guyatone EB-25 Pickup Rewind

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    This one was fun. I responded to a local help-wanted post, where the owner of a really slick 60’s era Guyatone bass has a dead humbucker and wanted it working again for his grandson. Instead of installing some other pickup, I managed to re-wind it and made it a little hotter in the process. I…

  • ’58 Style Humbucker Pickup

    ’58 Style Humbucker Pickup

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    They say the patent is still being applied for…. This one sound great in an LP style guitar in the bridge position. As a neat twist it’s been wound a bit hotter (9.1 kohm) and has an ‘aged’ alnico II magnet. We also (lightly!) wax-potted this one to keep that cover squeal tamed.

  • ’61 Precision Bass Pickup

    ’61 Precision Bass Pickup

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    We wound this pickup to a ’61 spec and it sounds great! Solid tone and growl like you’d expect. We did a full setup with install, and we grounded the pole pieces on this one to make it more silent. A happy customer

  • Mahogany Jazz Bass Build

    Mahogany Jazz Bass Build

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    This was a kit build for a customer featuring some tight single coil pickups and a finish that developed over time. Initially it was built as a ‘stickerbomb’ instrument, which you can see here: After some time, the instrument was reinvented as a 60’s style bass with flatwounds and a rich mahogany finish with linseed…

  • Jazz Bass Pickup

    Jazz Bass Pickup

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    We wound our first pickup! It’s a ’74 style jazz bass pickup with #43 AWG formvar wire.

  • Stratocaster Build

    Stratocaster Build

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    This was a solid kit-built strat with excellent tones coming from the Fender 57/62 pickup set that was installed. Hipshot tuners always help, and these open-gear ones made the whole user experience an A+ one. As always full copper-tape shielding and a full fret level & crown was done, and the customer was happy! View…

  • Starcaster Replica build

    Starcaster Replica build

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    This was another fun ‘replicate that tone’ build, aiming at building a Fender Starcaster from a Squire CV re-release. To make it feel like the real thing, a 50’s style (1meg) wiring harness was installed alongside Fender Wide-Range pickups. The fretwork and nut also deserved attention, so I made a new nut from a blank,…

  • Hand-Painting a Shredmaster Pedal

    Hand-Painting a Shredmaster Pedal

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    The BYOC Shredmaster clone kit is great! One thing that it is missing though, is a decent paint job, the brushed steel look got old, so I got my hands on some gesso and added a jawbreaker style paint job. Very time-consuming, but also relaxing work.

  • Grungified Nash Jazzmaster Pickup

    Grungified Nash Jazzmaster Pickup

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    Nash Guitars are a bit controversial, but the vibe is for sure there. This was a fun conversion where a red lace dually was installed into the bridge position of a Nash JM-63 for telecaster plus v1 grunge-era tones Since the guitar came with absolutely no shielding, copper tape was also installed (painstakingly)

  • Thinline Telecaster Plus V1 Build

    Thinline Telecaster Plus V1 Build

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    This was a fun build where I built a telecaster Plus (v1) with a thinline kit. It required some routing and a finicking with a bridge, but I was able to get there and the tone was exactly what the customer wanted! Most significantly, this uses a Treble Bass Expander (TBX) circuit and lace sensor…