Create your sound your way
Find your unique blend of tones with custom hand wound pickups
Every pickup is hand wound by me, to order, in my workshop. Nothing is mass produced, nothing is outsourced. Each one is crafted with the care, precision and attention to detail that only comes from building them individually.
My stock models are the result of years spent refining designs to capture specific voices for individual players. From articulate vintage character to powerful modern tones, there’s something for every player.
Alongside these, I offer a truly bespoke service, creating pickups tailored to your instrument, your playing style and, most importantly, the sound you hear in your head. Whether you're chasing subtle nuance or something entirely unique, every aspect of the pickup can be voiced to suit your requirements.
Humbuckers
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An AlNiCo II PAF style design with modern components - the Bridge is Hot and bright with a loose bottom and the neck slightly less powerful but brighter with a full warm roundness for perfect balance.
With or without covers, Zebra or custom colour bobbins also available. -
AlNiCo IV PAF style pickups. The magnet gives a slightly flatter response with a controlled low end that stays tight, and this vintage hot bridge pickup gives a good bite, but without harshness.
The neck pickup is slightly underwound for a fluty lead tone that keeps its articulation even with heavy gain. -
A classic hot PAF with an AlNiCo IV magnet.
The Bridge just roars vintage classic rock and blues. Towards the hot end of the Vintage PAF era, it’s bright and fat, and drives the front of an amp.
The neck pickup very much the classic 1960 PAF tone - wound to be close to the original Seth Lover specs, it has a sweet controllable tone for both rhythm and lead with a full but tight low end. -
A not quite faithful replication of the T Type, but a bit of a mix between the early 60’s Patent Sticker Pickup and the later T Top.
Using a full length PAF Style sandcast AlNiCo V magnet, the windings are more in keeping with the later T tops for a bright, punchy, but not over powerful pickup that gives a great range of control and picking dynamics. Neck and Bridge are the similar strengths in this balanced set.
Great for blues and rock if you want a big but open and airy tone with lots of pick attack and articulation. -
A pickup designed to recreate the big tones of the 1980’s sunset strip sounds.
A fully charged AlNiCo V polished long magnet, the overwound bridge gives that bright, full, powerful tone that you’d hear on many hair rock albums of the time.
Although the construction is different in terms of wire choice and magnet, the feel is still of a super hot PAF, with the full fat low end.
The Neck is a hot and sweet, with a brilliance in the high end, but not as hot as the bridge so it keeps its balance there under drive. That means you can get it a little closer to the strings without it getting muddy or inarticulate. -
An AlNiCo V set that creates a very tight and controlled late 80’s/Early 90’s Rock tone.
The clarity of these pickups is a great match for the later 80’s tone, especially if you like a lot of effects. The tightness of the low end and the clarity of the top allows the pickups to remain clear under lots of lush delays and verbs. -
A PAF wound with vintage spec parts for the most accurate PAF reproduction I can make.
Vintage style covers, Maple spacers, replica vintage covers and long leg bases.
The only concession I make to modernity is to use a modern wire for consistency and reliability.Tell me what your favourite combination of PAF tones is, and I’ll recreate a pair to your taste.
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I originally wound these for James Ready of Walkway and Chez Kane for his ‘fly guitar’. Every working muso has that guitar that goes in the hold of an aircraft!
He was looking for something to make this cheap locking trem guitar a bit more exciting. So I adapted the Poundcake design with an AlNiCo II magnet for the bridge and slightly altered the wind.The effect of this was to loosen the low end of the bridge pickup and give it a slightly fatter and looser, less midrange heavy tone, with a hint more spank at the top end.
Matched with the Poundcake neck, they make a great pair for Locking Trem guitars that sound a touch lifeless or thin at the Bridge position.
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A Ceramic Pickup that is best used in the bridge position.
This one is hot, but the bottom is fat. It’s a big sounding pickup that will super charge any rock guitar.
This is one of the classic tones that drove 70’s and 80’s rock, and keeps its classic Humbucker appearance. -
Bridge only - This one uses a double size Ceramic Magnet to create a super hot pickup which drives a tight bottom end into full trouser flapping, air moving insanity!
It’s an absolute Animal.
Uncovered only.
Single Coils
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A very matched set of vintage coils, wound on Staggered Alnico V pickups wound to a vintage tone with modern wire and Insulation for long term reliability.
Bright and scooped, these are the perfect replacement for a 60’s style strat replica that needs a something to give it that more natural tone. -
A more Mid 60’s wind - a bit more powerful that the surfer. Staggered Alnico V pole pieces, voiced for a slightly heavier midrange punch at the bridge but with a traditional mid 60’s tone at the middle and neck.
My most popular Single coils since I began making pickups. Very versatile for pop, rock and blues.
Great choice for upgrading a Squier or other Strat Copy.
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Wound as the super blues, but with AlNiCo 3 Staggered magnets for a slightly softer edge.
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A design I created purely to reduce noise in my Big Muff for the Pure Floyd Show.
Muffs are notoriously noisy at higher gain levels, but react terribly to anything with too much bottom end or fatness. So I developed this pickup to be tight and hot into high gain so that the hiss associated with higher gain settings could be reduced.
Basically, it allows me to get the same drive and tone into the Muff as a normal strat pickup, but at lower and less noisier settings.
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AlNiCo V flat profile magnets with a slightly tall wind and a copper steel base. This one is hotter than a standard Tele pickup and is warm and bright. These work really well as a lap steel pickup too, and I use them for Custom Lap steel builds
In a telecaster, the neck pickup in this set is an Alnico V that is a little more powerful and slightly brighter than the vintage standard.
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A hot Alnico III wind that is both fat and articulate, and is the alternative bridge in a Super Blues set if you want something that isn’t quite as recognisably ‘Tele’ sounding.
It’s got a slight P90 character to it in that the softer top end allows the midrange to poke through a little harder. -
A super hot AlNiCo III Bridge pickup for Strat with which gives an almost humbucker like level of power with the articulation of a single coil.
The added baseplate creates a slightly different magnetic pattern which gives it a certain fatness which is great for heavy punky rhythms or searing leads. Cleans up nicely on a 250K standard strat volume pot and blends well with the Super Blues Mid and neck pickups. -
These P90s were originally created for Dove & Boweevil and Vagaband guitarist Mark Howes, for his P90 Equipped Les Paul.
A looser bottom end at the bridge from the Alnico II magnet and slight over wind creates a warmth with sparkle for rhythms and leads, under a variety of gain levels.The neck pickup is an Alnico III with quite a low magnetic pull, allowing it to be brought right up to the strings. This gives a strong glassy tone which is perfect for slide players, but also great for leads.
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Adapted from the Bo’s Blues 90 set and using the same neck pickup (a real favourite of mine), this set comes with a hot and bright Alnico V bridge
Designed to give that Leslie West bite, the bridge pickup is perfect in a Junior, or even in a Bolt neck type guitar as an alternative to a strat style pickup.
Prices begin at:
Humbuckers : £120 (uncovered) - £140 Covered (Nickel/Chrome) - £150 Gold Hardware/Cover
Stratocaster & Telecaster Single Coils: £80.
P90 - £99 (Plastic Cover) £109 (wing Cover) £89 No cover
Jazz Bass - (Pair) £160 P Bass (£130)
Fitting service is also available.
Rewinding and Pickup Repairs
Rewinding, re-magnetising and repairs available for all kinds of pickups.
You’d be surprised how many people throw away pickups that are perfectly saveable. You can have your pickup rebuilt, and even change and improve the tone of it via a rewind. Often pickups that go ‘dead’ just have a dry joint on the lead and with a dab of a soldering iron will come back to life.