Recent content by Mark Abbott

As shown in the picture, the shape of the pickup is quite different from the original pickup. The section where pickups wiring is attached comes to a point as opposed to having the flat section in the original pickup. who makes pickups for the Japanese 51 P basses? Regards Mark

I usually am suspicious of any company offers celebrity pickups who hasn’t got some sort of documented history with them. I have seen numerous Peter Green humbucker sets with different specs, while not wanting out of phase pickups it fuels my distrust. I recently saw a comment about SD Jimmy...

I've been wondering about the differences between the classics 50's pickups and the 70's pickups. Most people will know both pickups used A5 magnets and the coils differed. The 50's coils were formvar wire measuring between 5.5K and 6.5K, the 70's pickups used enamel wire (P.E.) which measured...

I can't say I know a whole lot about pickups other than Gibson/Fender humbuckers and Fender single coils. This a shame really as there are other choices out there. Such as Gretsch, lipstick pickups etc. When looking for info on lipstick pickups there doesn't seem to be a lot of info out there...

I have recently (well I really don't go looking for this sort of thing) seen a GFS 60 - 70's strat pickup for sale. I know Chris Kinman makes the Woodstock set which alludes to 1969, and then there is Clapton's guitar "Blackie" which is a fifties guitar with 70"s pickups. I have seen late...

I own a Danelectro reissue, and I like it, as it has personality. It has a good acoustic volume for goofing around at home without bugging neighbours in my apartment block. As anyone who's ever noticed the various advertisements for Dano's realise, the pickups in the original reissues weren't...