Jeff_H
Dean Hardtail Fanologist
.........slap yourself upside the head.
Have you ever gone to change pickups and the pickups you're taking out of the guitar aren't the ones you expected to be in there? It just happened to me.
For the past 6 months or so I thought I had a set of Seth Lovers in my Spalted Maple Hardtail, but I actually had an Antiquity bridge and a Seth Lover neck. I have no idea how that happened. The baseplates look completely different. I obviously confused the two somehow.
Well, I took them out because I had a new set of pickups I wanted to try. They are from James at Rewind Electric http://www.re-wind.net/index.html . I ran into James and his pickups over at My Les Paul Forum. He's a Vendor member there and is active on the board in many of the sub forums, not just the pickup section. He's very knowledgeable about pickups as well as Les Paul's.
Anyhow, I had seen his posts and noticed how helpful he was, even when people were asking questions about other makers pickups. He would give advice, mention things to look for or questions to ask before ordering, all without ever suggesting the person check out his pickups or having a single bad word to say about another brand of pickups. Very much like the attitude we have here about talking about pickups other than SD. We can talk about other pickup brands and we don't rip on those brands because they aren't here to defend themselves. I don't see that attitude very often at other forums I've visited.
I had posted over there as well looking for double cream SD pickups or maybe something else interesting in DC, so James reached out to me and said he had a set in DC that a guy had changed his mind on the color and wanted Zebra instead.... for a Slash inspired build. He offered me a REALLY good deal on the set he already had built. We talked back and forth via PM and email for a while about the sound I was looking for, playing style, music I played and music I liked. In the end, the pickups he had were exactly what I was looking for, but I couldn't afford them. I told him the only way I could do it was to pay 1/2 now and 1/2 later, after some stuff sold, since I'm not working. I told him that wasn't something that I expected him to be interested in, since that's no way to run a business. In the meantime he had someone else contact him looking for the same set of pickups, so he sold them to that person. No big deal, I understand that.
Well, a day or so later I received an email from James offering to build me the same set of pickups, or anything else I wanted that he built, with any custom tweaks I wanted in the sound, for the same crazy low price that he had offered me the other set for. He also said he would take half down or whatever I could do now and I could pay him the rest when I had it. Very Cool!!! I sent the deposit and he built the new pickups and as soon as I had the balance ready, he sent me the pickups.
They are his Low Output Set; about 7.6k for the bridge and 7.3k for the neck, vintage leads and not wax potted. However, now that they're in they sound more powerful than the Antiquity/Seth set I had in the guitar, but with better clarity and note separation. I had to set them lower than the other set to get the sound balanced, at least for low volume clean tones. I just put them in, so I don't have a full review. It's 4am and I can't put the DSL40c on OD1 and see how they sound. On the clean channel they sound very much like a great PAF pickup, which is what they are designed to be. All of the period accurate components, just like Seymour uses on the Antiquities. James even makes many parts himself, to get the details right.
I'll have a better report on the sound and tone after I have them dialed in and a little mileage on them. However, if you are looking for a great set of PAF pickups, from very clear and lower output to the hotter end of the PAF spectrum (and beyond), check out James site http://www.re-wind.net/index.html . If one of his sets isn't exactly what you want, he'll figure out what needs to be done to get that sound and tweak the build process to achieve it. Super amount of integrity and if you buy a set and it doesn't sound right, he'll work with you to get them sounding right or he'll build you another set.
More to come on the tone report, but James is a great guy and you should at least check his site out.
Jeff
Have you ever gone to change pickups and the pickups you're taking out of the guitar aren't the ones you expected to be in there? It just happened to me.
For the past 6 months or so I thought I had a set of Seth Lovers in my Spalted Maple Hardtail, but I actually had an Antiquity bridge and a Seth Lover neck. I have no idea how that happened. The baseplates look completely different. I obviously confused the two somehow.
Well, I took them out because I had a new set of pickups I wanted to try. They are from James at Rewind Electric http://www.re-wind.net/index.html . I ran into James and his pickups over at My Les Paul Forum. He's a Vendor member there and is active on the board in many of the sub forums, not just the pickup section. He's very knowledgeable about pickups as well as Les Paul's.
Anyhow, I had seen his posts and noticed how helpful he was, even when people were asking questions about other makers pickups. He would give advice, mention things to look for or questions to ask before ordering, all without ever suggesting the person check out his pickups or having a single bad word to say about another brand of pickups. Very much like the attitude we have here about talking about pickups other than SD. We can talk about other pickup brands and we don't rip on those brands because they aren't here to defend themselves. I don't see that attitude very often at other forums I've visited.
I had posted over there as well looking for double cream SD pickups or maybe something else interesting in DC, so James reached out to me and said he had a set in DC that a guy had changed his mind on the color and wanted Zebra instead.... for a Slash inspired build. He offered me a REALLY good deal on the set he already had built. We talked back and forth via PM and email for a while about the sound I was looking for, playing style, music I played and music I liked. In the end, the pickups he had were exactly what I was looking for, but I couldn't afford them. I told him the only way I could do it was to pay 1/2 now and 1/2 later, after some stuff sold, since I'm not working. I told him that wasn't something that I expected him to be interested in, since that's no way to run a business. In the meantime he had someone else contact him looking for the same set of pickups, so he sold them to that person. No big deal, I understand that.
Well, a day or so later I received an email from James offering to build me the same set of pickups, or anything else I wanted that he built, with any custom tweaks I wanted in the sound, for the same crazy low price that he had offered me the other set for. He also said he would take half down or whatever I could do now and I could pay him the rest when I had it. Very Cool!!! I sent the deposit and he built the new pickups and as soon as I had the balance ready, he sent me the pickups.
They are his Low Output Set; about 7.6k for the bridge and 7.3k for the neck, vintage leads and not wax potted. However, now that they're in they sound more powerful than the Antiquity/Seth set I had in the guitar, but with better clarity and note separation. I had to set them lower than the other set to get the sound balanced, at least for low volume clean tones. I just put them in, so I don't have a full review. It's 4am and I can't put the DSL40c on OD1 and see how they sound. On the clean channel they sound very much like a great PAF pickup, which is what they are designed to be. All of the period accurate components, just like Seymour uses on the Antiquities. James even makes many parts himself, to get the details right.
I'll have a better report on the sound and tone after I have them dialed in and a little mileage on them. However, if you are looking for a great set of PAF pickups, from very clear and lower output to the hotter end of the PAF spectrum (and beyond), check out James site http://www.re-wind.net/index.html . If one of his sets isn't exactly what you want, he'll figure out what needs to be done to get that sound and tweak the build process to achieve it. Super amount of integrity and if you buy a set and it doesn't sound right, he'll work with you to get them sounding right or he'll build you another set.
More to come on the tone report, but James is a great guy and you should at least check his site out.
Jeff
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