UK Pickup makers - Advice?

ALMuti

Hey folks, 

I'm considering switching pickups in one of my guitars, and I wanted to get something UK and good quality. I'm looking for a Bridge P90, specifically, and Ideally I'd like to stay a bit under £100. This excludes stuff like Creamery and main line Bareknuckle, but leaves in things like Monty, Mojo, Oil City, Alegree, and probably some others. 

I'm sure there's plenty of experience with all these builders here. What's your take? Any favorites? Any one you would or wouldn't recommend? 

RickLucas

I've had several Alegree pickups recently. Old Timers and Sea Smoke P90s. Both great and I would recommend the Old Timers.

Teyeplayer

Creamery take a long time to arrive, and though they were good pickups there are others that can be had more quickly. Mojo are excellent, but demand has meant that they are often only open for a small ordering window each month.

The two that I’ve also had great pickups from but are less often mentioned are Fletcher and Cats Whisker. Both are great quality pickups, firmly in the affordable camp. 

TheMarlin

Oil City make excellent P90’s. 

DavidRees

Ash at Oil City makes fabulous pickups and is great to deal with too.

Grampa

Yep, another vote for Ash at Oil City, great pickups and very easy to chat with.

maw4neu

TheMarlin said:

Oil City make excellent P90’s. 

100% what he said . . . !

toescantalk

Mojo Pickups and Oil City would be where I looked first.

GavRichList

Nothing Marc at Mojo makes is anything other than wonderful in my experience 

monquixote

@OilCityPickups ; Are my first port of call.

BlackbirdCabs

toescantalk said:

Mojo Pickups and Oil City would be where I looked first.

100% this, although I think Ash has more options with P90s so Oil City would be my first choice. Definitely get in touch and chat through what you're after.

Humboldt

RickLucas said:

I've had several Alegree pickups recently. Old Timers and Sea Smoke P90s. Both great and I would recommend the Old Timers.

I've just put an Alegree Old Timer single coil in the neck position of my Strat to replace the original (which looks like it's a Highway One).

Absolutely lovely. £20 well spent and a big improvement.

RickLucas

Humboldt said:

RickLucas said:

I've had several Alegree pickups recently. Old Timers and Sea Smoke P90s. Both great and I would recommend the Old Timers.

I've just put an Alegree Old Timer single coil in the neck position of my Strat to replace the original (which looks like it's a Highway One).

Absolutely lovely. £20 well spent and a big improvement.

Yes, and as a pair they are well balanced. 

timhulio

Does your guitar currently have a bridge p90? Is it made of the 'correct' components? Because if it is then maybe getting it rewound hotter, or with the correct wire, or scatterwound would be what hits the spot.

Catswhisker make great pickups and also do very affordable rewinds. I'll blow their trumpet because they never do!

Dave_Mc

Bulldogs are excellent and well under £100. So are Catswhisker. Keep an eye out on Ebay, Catswhisker sells his own pickups there for a bit of a discount, sometimes you get lucky and the pickup/spec you want comes up. Ditto Toltec (but I haven't tried his P90s). Of the ones mentioned in here that I've tried, Alegree, Oil City and Fletcher are great but again I haven't tried their P90s. (I haven't tried Mojo, Monty's or The Creamery.)

sweepy

Mojo, Oil City, Radioshop and Sunbear have all been awesome in my guitars