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Likewise my Diesel Tap Tele bridge pickup with its twin ‘tapped’ output … cutting sixties and beefed up modern rock Tele has been enthusiastically taken up by many players. It's caracter embodying grunt and authority combined with stinging highs …here coming from chunky alnico 5 magnets and 42awg wire.
Now comes the Wapping Wharf …
At its heart is a conventional HonkyTonk Angel 10k ‘Broadcaster pickup … but while the top three strings have the Angel’s alnico 2 magnets for sweetness and sustain … the bottom three have alnico 5 for bottom end punch and twang. Not only this, but when the bobbin reaches the number of turns for an Angel, an output wire is taken to an eyelet … then the wind carries on … up to 16k!
What all this gives is a Tele pickup with superb levels of punch and note separation … maximised top end sustain and a beefed up, super-punchy bottom end …. And that’s before you hit the switch for full power!
Being hand built it is scatter wound for best clarity, and finished in the traditional Broadcaster ‘black string’ wrapping …. With traditional cloth covered hookup wires. It has my own, unique 2mm gun blued steel base plate for added grunt.
I guess it's obvious from the number of Tele pickups I produce ... but I do love the old Devils Canoe Paddle
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Out of curiosity, would a tapped pickup with different before and after gauges be possible/worthwhile/at all useful? (I mean different gauges in the two sections of winding.)
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Now Romford Roarer is good ... though sounds more like a fart after 11 pints of Wife Beater than a pickup
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Any advance on our prototype?
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As with all my pickups, I seldom carry many ... and with the 'Wharf' I will build as people want them initially.
£48.00 plus £6.99 P&P (pork-pies and pickles)
So ready when people want them
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