More from the the Oil City research dpt ;-)

OilCityPickups

Richardj

Tease!

Megii

Looking very good, a tease indeed - I'll wait for further details with some interest.

stickyfiddle

OOOooohhhh!!!! 

This interests me very muchly indeedy. Are we talking B*rden or Lil59 style?

not_the_dj

Oooooohhh indeed.

ThePrettyDamned

Ha! This is what I've been waiting for for my thinline, ash

OilCityPickups

Two different specs of these pickups are have been designed:

In the pictures you see the The Telecaster high output bridge version at 14.5k ... it's warm, but with tons of Tele bite. Able to drive an amp front end pretty hard ... it is paired in my demo guitar with a HardMan SC neck pickup. A nice sounding combo!

The Strat set is 14,5k, 9k, 9k .... and handles blues to classic metal with ease! and benefits from a 'full metal jackets' for improved quietness when split.

These pickups are as far as I know, the only scatter wound, hand made SC size humbuckers produced in this country. 

The lower output versions will be available as soon as I have finished testing prototypes.

Prices will be similar to Duncans etc, but of course totally hand made for you.

ThePrettyDamned

Wonderful. I'll be very interested in a lower output tele set - I may stick with a "proper" tele neck pickup but go for a humbucker bridge.

Or vice versa - I may go for your broadcaster bridge but a single coil sized humbuggy in the neck. Will you have any that are tele sized for the neck?

This is really good news. There are not many handwound rails pickups about!

Richardj

Prototype testing did you say?  A lower output Tele bridge paired with a lower output Strat neck rail, hmmmmm.

OilCityPickups

Well that could be arranged ...

10thumbs

They look awesome , I feel another partscaster build coming on, maybe with a conversation neck.....  :>

Off topic , I`ve heard that this Tele Twang 90 , has an output of 12.5k , does that make it more rock-suitable , :-?

or is it as the name suggests strictly "twangy" ?

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/93/oil-city-the-weasel-on-pickups-repair-building-and-rewinding/p1

Can`t seem to find it on the website though ?  :-?

 

OilCityPickups

The Twang 90 morphed into the Alligator 90. it it's still got a healthy dose of twang .... but a rock output closer to a hot P90. 

Richardj

TheGuitarWeasel said:

Well that could be arranged ...

A tentative and rambling PM has been sent on the slightest of offchances.........

10thumbs

Thanks Ash , I saw the Alligator 90 on the website.

But I`m wondering about this recent acquisition ...  http://i.imgur.com/pWRPjNb.jpg

The guy who sold it to me said it has 2x alnico 5 magnets ?

and I`ve just measured the output at 11.9k , is this a the Twang 90 , is it a prototype , or something else ?

I haven`t tried it out yet though , I`m still enjoying the Honkytonk Angel.  =D>

OilCityPickups

It is the original prototype Alligator!!! Hence the green ink and the 'proto' designation! 

OilCityPickups

And yes ... it has two A5s

10thumbs

Result !!

Thanks mate and apologies for hijacking your thread....  >-

OilCityPickups

That's what I am here for

 :-)

MattFGBI

Can you do a Strat bridge pickup in aged white? 

digitalscream

This is only speculative, given that I'm all about the Little '59s at the moment, but would you be able/willing to do overwound versions of these? Say, 16k bridge and 10.5k neck?

timmysoft

I hope that you try a stacked version too, I love the single coil humbucker sound but I'm not keen for n the look!