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Tim must of course play his own game ... I prefer to price to give people a hand wound alternative at a Duncan or Dimarzio pricepoint.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I firmly believe that chasing accuracy with old designs does not guarantee the best results. Designs and technology have improved, and I'd happily consider the modern variants. Sometimes the old stuff still works best, not more often not.
Can I just check - are the WRHB in the pawnshops the same size as the originals and the Oil city version?
what would work in the bridge? I don't go for the overwound mid-heavy ones, normally quieter PAFs and single coils
As to the bridge ... you need something a bit poky to compete with a proper WR ... personally I'd go for a bucker with a fair bit of top ... but over wound enough to split nicely for single coil tones.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
You do end-up paying for the name.
What's disappointed me more with them is the lack of innovation and the fact that they have moved away from the situation where you could get things tailored for you - to speak to the guy who is going to wind you your pickup for your guitar and style.Which is OK if you are intent on building a brand, I guess.
I think in a few years we'll be looking at them in the same way as we see Seymour Duncan and Kent Armstrong now, memories of something innovative, interesting and special but a mass produced reality sold on the back of a brand name.
I think you are probably quite right in many ways. I think BK's long game is very heavily focused on the other side of the Atlantic ... and I wish Tim luck ... especially butting heads with Larry (DiMarzio)
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I do seriously hope that anyone who has one of my pickups and might have 'fallen out of love' with it would ring me before selling. I take mahoosive care to 'fit' a pickup to a guitarist and their instrument ... and if I get it wrong I will always do my best to rebuild, rethink rewind ... whatever it takes.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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i believe Fender let their licence to use the WRHB Lapse....it was designed and licensed by Seth Lover
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