Shout out to Ash at Oil City!

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… for taking care of me (and my Christmas bonus from work …)

I have a Winterizer II (HB-sized Firebird pickup), a Copperfield (Keef Micawber Tele bridge pickup clone) and a Blue Streak (Super Distortion variation) on the way. 

All wound with lovely NOS wire, though the polysol on the Blue Streak is only from the 80s and according to Ash doesn’t really differ from the newer stuff, unlike the plain enamel on the other two.

Kittyfrisk

^ Lucky man. :-D

OilCityPickups

Thank you old chap ... this new year is going a bit mad with work :-)  
Coming weekend i should have my werkshop clearout up in the classifieds ... I have all sorts to get rid of ... not just pickups! There's bridges, tuners, all sorts of odds and sods ... I need more room! Pickup surrounds ... all sorts of old scratchplates ... 
i think it's going to end up like a guitar car boot sale! 

Funkfingers

OilCityPickups said:

werkshop

Jawohl. 

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Got the Blue Streak installed into my baritone Jazzmaster last night, replacing an A4 PAF style pickup. 

Different gravy. Tighter low end and a faster attack. Nice grind to the mids. Loves a bit of dirt and offers great string separation when using effects.

The neck pickup is a Sustainiac and it is liking the extra welly from Ash’s pickup. With the PAF-style I had to set it closer to the strings than where it sounded best for the sustainer to work properly. The Blue Streak is set 3 to 4 mm below the strings and still able to give plenty of juice to the sustainer.

It’s such a familiar sound having been used on so many records, and one I hadn’t had in my arsenal previously.

OilCityPickups

Yay, glad you like it ... :-)

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Got the Winterizer II installed in my Les Paul on lunch break today.

Not as zingy as other FB-style pickups I’ve encountered, probably down to those being Alnico 5 as opposed to 2.

There is a real bounce and dynamics to this pickup (as well as all the usual FB clarity) which is likely down to some combination of it being unpotted and (possibly) the looser build tolerances of the NOS wire.

Killer.

blueskunk

Snagged a lovely Strat last week from the wonderful Heywood Guitar Doctor, Denis. 

Came with Oil City Pickups!!

Riot Act / Beano - outstanding pickups. 

Siejen

Blackbird / SYD+ for me. Wouldn’t have speced anything less. 

OilCityPickups

I'm trying to work out If I can big myself up for my own pickups I've made for myself ... 
Hey ... I'm a nice guy and I treated myself well ... 
I was super chuffed with the 7 string Neo X Breeds I fitted to my Ibanez 7 string. I mean I make 7 string pickups for lots of folks ... but I don't normally spec 'star' models just for me. No time!
With my 7 I went mad, and did maximum clarity and bass tightness ... and my god I got it. I did fuck up however ... I thought I'd need coil split resistors ... and to be honest they are superfluous.  

CavemanGrogg

How about answering the super important questions that are on everybodies minds? Namely:

1, Did the pickups come in a super cool case, that is also super usable and durable - like a super cool custom sized lifton case for example?

2, Did the pickups come with super cool branded case candy?

OilCityPickups

CavemanGrogg said:

How about answering the super important questions that are on everybodies minds? Namely:

1, Did the pickups come in a super cool case, that is also super usable and durable - like a super cool custom sized lifton case for example?

2, Did the pickups come with super cool branded case candy?

Actually the opposite with my pickups ... a recycled and recyclable cardboard box, with a paper oil city label, no foam or other plastic used except a tiny bag for the mounting screws ... everything else is tissue packing so can go in the recycling. I spend money on developing good pickups, not giving away 'free' picks or strings or beer mats or any of that bollocks.  Or putting pickups in miniature wooden crates with tiny crow bar supplied to open them,  Not that anyone would do that would they? :-)

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OilCityPickups said:

CavemanGrogg said:

How about answering the super important questions that are on everybodies minds? Namely:

1, Did the pickups come in a super cool case, that is also super usable and durable - like a super cool custom sized lifton case for example?

2, Did the pickups come with super cool branded case candy?

Actually the opposite with my pickups ... a recycled and recyclable cardboard box, with a paper oil city label, no foam or other plastic used except a tiny bag for the mounting screws ... everything else is tissue packing so can go in the recycling. I spend money on developing good pickups, not giving away 'free' picks or strings or beer mats or any of that bollocks.  Or putting pickups in miniature wooden crates with tiny crow bar supplied to open them,  Not that anyone would do that would they? :-)

It’s rumoured that the next “ultimate” PAFs from Gibson will come nestled on a bed of Cesar Guekian’s chest hair and with a bong for smoking it.