New Oil City challenge for a Feline custom ....

OilCityPickups

Jonathan from @FelineGuitars was on the phone to me a while back and asked me to design a rather unusual pickup, the result is what you see above. This had to be one of the most unusual jobs I've been called upon to do, so I thought I'd share.

The conversation went along these lines: 'I've got this customer who I'm building a LP style guitar for ... I need a bridge and neck pickup that are both tapped ... I want the flat out sound to be P90, and the tapped sound to be meaty Telecaster ... both in humbucker cases ... oh, and as the guitarist is primarily a banjo player ... I want them to be five string!'

Well here we have the beasts ... the bridge pickup features a steel inner base-plate to give that Tele bite, and goes from 6.5k to around 10k in P90 mode. The neck pickup goes from 5.8k to 9k. 

Everything about these is custom ... from the hand cut bridge baseplate to the CAD designed, one off flatwork. 

Winny_Pooh

5 string? Wat

Impressive work

dchwhite

Crumbs - very wow.

axisus

They look great and it sounds a very interesting concept. 5 string a tad weird though!

Roland

We're going to need sound clips

OilCityPickups

I believe it's going to spend most of its time tuned to open G for slide and Keith Richards style stuff :-)

FelineGuitars

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/90793/feline-guitars-customer-builds-updates#latest
I have written a bit about it in one of my custom builds for customers threads

ThePrettyDamned

Blimey, that's a bit special. 

I love this. @FelineGuitars don't suppose you have a linky? Love to read up specifics! 

Great work Ash  

FelineGuitars

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/90793/feline-guitars-customer-builds-updates#latest

stimpsonslostson

I suspect that neither guitar nor pickups will have mass market appeal, that said it's marvellous that such idiosyncratic requests can be fulfilled- it speaks volumes for the skills & knowledge within this week community. 

Good show guys. 

OilCityPickups

stimpsonslostson said:

I suspect that neither guitar nor pickups will have mass market appeal, that said it's marvellous that such idiosyncratic requests can be fulfilled- it speaks volumes for the skills & knowledge within this week community. 

Good show guys. 

I have made quite a few Oil City 'Big Block' pickups in the past ... the seem quite popular, though not obviously in five string lol. The whole Idea is to be able to supply pretty much any single coil design you fancy in a humbucker case: so far I have done 'Rick' Hi Gain style, Strat, Tele, Dynasonic .... etc etc

Sporky

I do like that headstock treatment.

FelineGuitars

Sporky said:

I do like that headstock treatment.

We hd fun thinking what to do and this layout worked the best while keeping our traditional headstock , although slimmed down a bit. It's comfy and it works and the heart inlay motif was thinking along banjo embellishment lines