ASL From the maker of … Oil City!

TTony

ThePrettyDamned said:

And the little shim under the bridge looks very, very tidy indeed.

Very, very tidy.

Nice one @WezV

WezV

ThePrettyDamned said:

*Goddamit I want one*

It will be for sale soon, and at a very low price to reflect the basic finishing and unpolished nature of it all  

TTony

WezV said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

*Goddamit I want one*

It will be for sale soon, and at a very low price to reflect the basic finishing and unpolished nature of it all  

That's your Christmas present sorted then @thePrettyDamned. Wez's work is probably better than it looks.

ThePrettyDamned

TTony;422656" said:

WezV said:





ThePrettyDamned said:














*Goddamit I want one*












It will be for sale soon, and at a very low price to reflect the basic finishing and unpolished nature of it all  ;)












That's your Christmas present sorted then @thePrettyDamned. Wez's work is probably better than it looks.

Yeah, God, I bet it sucks. I need to get my magic finishing touch on it to fix those mistakes.

/sarcasm

Seriously, it looks amazing. I'm supposed to be saving for an mjw. I might have to make an exception.

WezV

There is nothing that affects playability or sound, its immense in both aspects.   Its just a few aesthetic things I could do better, but wanted to actually get it finished which is often the biggest challenge for my non-commission builds

the join between paint and oiled neck isn't as clean as I would like. there is a small nick on the side of the control cavity recess, and  the finish is thin and ever so slightly textured.... I imagine it wear quite quickly.  its nitro so it will only get thinner.  also some of the parts (mainly the bridges) are re-used from previous projects and other than the pickups and tuners its all built from stuff I had lying around not doing anything.  

anyway, that's enough of derailing Ash's thread.    I am going to get some sound clips at some point and will update here when I do

ThePrettyDamned

Are you impressed with the split sound? I was completely amazed at how nice the havocs sounded split, it's not just a usable sound, it's downright great.

WezV

Definitely. It changes the tone a lot more than any other humbucker i have split.... It really makes me want to try the parallel setting too.

On some humbuckers parallel and split are too similar to be worth having both, but i think this will be different.

OilCityPickups

Interesting comments ... the Havoc has each coil of around the same dimension as a Strat single coil ... and of around the same power as a hot Strat unit, but the magnetic mass compared to the coil size is HUGE ... giving massive output in normal humbucking mode, but a pretty much standard single coil power when split. I wanted it to be a creditable alternative to active pickups for metallers who want to be able to turn down and do clean with power and string definition.

OilCityPickups

I started making my Oil City Mighty Ninety a couple of years ago and this is the latest incarnation. One of the issues with many humbucker sized P90s is that the shorter bobbin leads many makers to take the easy option and wind less wire on ... or drop to a finer wire gauge. The 'Mighty' has always be my no compromise option: wound 'full fat' with proper 42awg wire like a full sized P90, it uses special, custom made bobbins and has the same number of wire turns as my full size P90s! That means the growl and full response of a proper 90 too.
I have now also introduced the option of the all black 'Topless 90' (as well as a chrome ring version). Any metal in the magnetic field will rob the top end bite of a pickup ... even relatively 'transparent' nickel. Now you can have a humbucker sized 90 with no metal betwen the bobbin and the strings ... just like a soapbar or dogear.
Thanks to Steve of PJs Music in Portsmouth for the demos

http://youtu.be/KkE6t-Nj-fk

http://youtu.be/0BDyZJ-IDR4

OilCityPickups

Sorry, double post .... Firefox acting up ... think I'm kicking it in favour of 'Chrome' !

imalone

TheGuitarWeasel said:

I have now also introduced the option of the all black 'Topless 90' (as well as a chrome ring version). Any metal in the magnetic field will rob the top end bite of a pickup ... even relatively 'transparent' nickel. Now you can have a humbucker sized 90 with no metal betwen the bobbin and the strings ... just like a soapbar or dogear.
Thanks to Steve of PJs Music in Portsmouth for the demos

Nice! Is this a ASL or Oil City model, and is it a custom option?

samzadgan

imalone said:

TheGuitarWeasel said:

I have now also introduced the option of the all black 'Topless 90' (as well as a chrome ring version). Any metal in the magnetic field will rob the top end bite of a pickup ... even relatively 'transparent' nickel. Now you can have a humbucker sized 90 with no metal betwen the bobbin and the strings ... just like a soapbar or dogear.
Thanks to Steve of PJs Music in Portsmouth for the demos

Nice! Is this a ASL or Oil City model, and is it a custom option?

hmmm...good question...Ash...are my new custom pickups ASL or Oil City?

just want to know which camp I fall into..."the rare Oil City pick-up that are not made anymore" or "I was one the early customers of ASL pickups"

OilCityPickups

imalone said:

TheGuitarWeasel said:

I have now also introduced the option of the all black 'Topless 90' (as well as a chrome ring version). Any metal in the magnetic field will rob the top end bite of a pickup ... even relatively 'transparent' nickel. Now you can have a humbucker sized 90 with no metal betwen the bobbin and the strings ... just like a soapbar or dogear.
Thanks to Steve of PJs Music in Portsmouth for the demos

Nice! Is this a ASL or Oil City model, and is it a custom option?

It's Oil City ... and it is a custom option ... the black rings are quite hard to get. I can do em as standard with nice shiny open top nickel rings. I won't be having any more black in till well after Christmas

samzadgan said:

imalone said:

TheGuitarWeasel said:

I have now also introduced the option of the all black 'Topless 90' (as well as a chrome ring version). Any metal in the magnetic field will rob the top end bite of a pickup ... even relatively 'transparent' nickel. Now you can have a humbucker sized 90 with no metal betwen the bobbin and the strings ... just like a soapbar or dogear.
Thanks to Steve of PJs Music in Portsmouth for the demos

Nice! Is this a ASL or Oil City model, and is it a custom option?

hmmm...good question...Ash...are my new custom pickups ASL or Oil City?

just want to know which camp I fall into..."the rare Oil City pick-up that are not made anymore" or "I was one the early customers of ASL pickups"

Gots to send you that Invoice! Sorry mate Katie's off and work is coming out of my ears. Your pickup will be ASL Custom Shop. I am gradually migrating all my 'scratch builds' and prototypes to ASL. Oil City can be wound by Katie or me now ... ASL is my specialist 'design and hand build' brand, exclusively wound by me. 

samzadgan

TheGuitarWeasel said:

 

Gots to send you that Invoice! Sorry mate Katie's off and work is coming out of my ears. Your pickup will be ASL Custom Shop. I am gradually migrating all my 'scratch builds' and prototypes to ASL. Oil City can be wound by Katie or me now ... ASL is my specialist 'design and hand build' brand, exclusively wound by me. 

oooh....that means i'm an early adopter!!

no problem mate...no rush.

OilCityPickups

The earliest as in the first!!

samzadgan

when you get famous and they ask you about your favourite builds you have to say; "they are all special...but my first was extra special...(then proceed to tell them about me)"

DrBob

TheGuitarWeasel;432317" said:

The earliest as in the first!!

You say that but I've got an ASL Eruption !

FelineGuitars

We already have a few Fretboard members with some ASL pickups - certainly a few Transonics and a couple of Eruptions.

Here are a pair of prototype ASL "Big Block" single coils we have conjured up for some work we are doing for UFO's Paul Raymond.

samzadgan

DrBob said:

TheGuitarWeasel;432317" said:

The earliest as in the first!!

You say that but I've got an ASL Eruption !

yes... but mine is a custom build like no other!  

Philly_Q

Does one of those "Big Block" pickups have bigger polepieces than the other, or are my eyes playing tricks?