In addition to my guitars I offer hand wound guitar pickups, restored vintage pickups, and pickup repair services.
All pickups are designed, assembled, and hand wound by me. Standard models are listed below. In addition to my standard lineup I can custom wind just about any pickup to your specs – regular or mini humbuckers, strat and tele pickups, P90s, goldfoils, Bass VI pickups, Jazzmaster pickups, etc.
If you’d like to order pickups or inquire about a repair please contact me.
Models
LAF Humbuckers
PAF spec humbucker set. Butyrate bobbins, 42 awg plain enamel coil wire, rough cast Alnico 2 or 5 bar magnets, correct specs down to polepiece/slug/baseplate/cover materials. 7.4k neck and 8.1k bridge. Unpotted, can be wax potted to order. Available uncovered in any combination of cream/black bobbins, or in nickel, gold, or raw covers.
$140/pickup, add $10 for cover
Ike Mini Humbuckers
My take on the iconic 3×3 mini humbucker as used in the “Chris Isaak” Silvertone 1446 model. These are wound with 42 awg plain enamel to 7k neck / 7.7k bridge. Alnico 5 magnets. Available as a single (excellent tele neck pickup) or set. 50mm pole spacing.
“This thing slaps. Really, really, really, really cool. Beautiful, pristine, like shimmery, clean tone.”
-Sean Thompson (Margo Price, Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears), Vintage Guitar “Have Guitar Will Travel” Podcast 149
$140/pickup
Steelpro
A humbucker sized interpretation of the 3×3 Supro lap steel pickup made famous as a bridge pickup by Ry Cooder and David Lindley. 44 awg coil wire, hi strength alnico, two small coils out of phase with each other. 6.5k.
$140/pickup
Hyperbolater Humbucker
THE HOTTEST STRONGEST CLEAREST MOST BEST HUMBUCKER. Cream or black butyrate bobbins, 44 awg coil wire, thick ceramic bar magnet, hex head steel slugs with 49.2, 50, or 52 mm spacing. At 14k this is a bridge pickup. My favorite humbucker combo is a LAF neck and Hyperbolater bridge. Wax potted.
$140/pickup
Cococaster Tele Set
Slightly hotter-than-vintage tele set designed in collaboration with Cody Nilsen. These use Alnico 5 rod magnets and 42 awg plain enamel coil wire. 6.2k neck and 8k bridge. Lightly wax potted and RWRP for hum canceling when combined.
$100/pickup
Bar Rail Single
Bar magnet “blade” style Strat sized single coil. Coils are wound directly around vertically oriented bar magnets. These retain classic Strat sounds with extra touch sensitivity and output. Alnico 5 magnets and 42 awg plain enamel coil wire are standard, but other magnet grades and wire gauges can be used. 6.1k neck, 6.3k middle, and 6.5k bridge. Lightly wax potted and RWRP for hum canceling when combined. Steel baseplates available at an additional $10/pickup.
$90/pickup
Lord Guitars x Izzy Sealy
I’ve teamed up with Izzy Sealy (Lord Guitars artist and fashion designer) to bring a new style to my pickup designs. All Lord Guitars humbuckers, mini humbuckers, Strat pickups, and tele neck pickups are now available with hand embroidered inserts designed to complement the look of your instrument.
Add $35/pickup for LGxIS inserts
Recycled Vintage Pickups
I offer a rotating selection of rebuilt vintage pickups as well as original pickup builds using vintage magnets, wire, or other components. Current options include 1950s Fender alnico rod magnets, 1966 Phelps Dodge Formvar wire, 1960s Teisco and Guyatone gold foil ceramic bar magnets, and more. The most fun and unique pickup designs I make can be found here.
Varies
Pickup Repair
I have experience repairing many models of vintage Fender and Gibson pickups, goldfoil pickups (Teisco, Guyatone, DeArmond), DeArmond Hershey Bars, Kay Pancakes, Kay Speedbumps, vintage lapsteel pickups (Supro etc.), Guild pickups, early DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan stuff, and many more. When repairing pickups I will first try to use the original components; if coils require rewinding or parts need to be replaced I strive to use the correct spec wire, magnets, etc.
Pickup rewinds start at $75/coil
Players and Builders
Players:
- Mike T. Kerr (Mike T. Kerr’s Red Hot Jazz Explosion, Corin Raymond, William Prince) – Jazzmaster neck/tele bridge set, LAF/Hyperbolater set
- Reverend Peyton (The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band) – Steelpros
- Sean Thompson (Margo Price, Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears) – Ike mini humbucker/tele bridge set, LAFs
- Cody Nilsen (GA-20) – Cococaster
- Izzy Sealy (Komai, Soundz of Now) – LAF/Hyperbolater set
- Matt Ohanian (Stop that Man) – Thunderbird humbuckers
- Lenny Lashley (Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys, Darkbuster, Lenny Lashley’s Gang of One) – LAFs
- Nichol Robertson (the hardest working man in Toronto) – Firebird mini humbucker
- Dave Drouin (Cold Engines) – LAF
- Scotty B. Goode (Glimmerjean & Goode) – Firebird minis, “Best pickups I have ever played”
- Michael Colavolpe (Symphonic Bodega) – mini LAFs, Filtertrons
- Justin Kelley (Hownd) – Bass VI set
- Andrew Aghababian (Unnamed Colors) – P90s, tele sets, mini humbuckers, LAFs
- Nathan Varga (New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, Emmanuel Music, Cape Symphony) – LAFs
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