Tag: newpickupday
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’67 Strat Pickup
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…
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Bass Mini-Humbucker
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…
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’58 Style Humbucker Pickup
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.
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’61 Precision Bass Pickup
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
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Jazz Bass Pickup
We wound our first pickup! It’s a ’74 style jazz bass pickup with #43 AWG formvar wire.
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Grungified Nash Jazzmaster Pickup
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)