Pickup Repairs and Customizing

Standard:$50 a bobbin
Custom:Call me
Please contact me by email or phone (828 396-3626) to discuss your special project before you ship me a part or instrument. Even if you don't have a project in mind, I hope you enjoy looking through these pages at some of the incredible vintage instruments that have come my way.

More Horsing around P45/90/180
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Custom Pickup: P-90 with 3 taps

DeArmond Rowe
New
Repair: of old DeArmond Rowe paper bobbin pickup

Hotrod a DeArmond Turbo Jet
New
Custom: convert a new Turbo-Jet pickup into something much more useful

Horsing around
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I came across some "Liquid Blue Nylon" Aluminum wire made in 1965

50's Teisco Lap Guitar
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Custom: Make a custom pick for this beautiful Lap Steel.

Mod: a cheap pickup to sound like a PAF
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Repair: A look inside a Cheap Humbucker

63 Strat Repair
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Repair: Chris Duarte's dead 63 Start pickup.

Humbucker Tele Bridge
New
Prototype: After many requests, here it is.

Framus-Waikiki Lap Steel
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Still designing the pickup for this beauty.

Hofner Bass
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Repair: Hofner Beatle Bass.

Guild Aristocrat/Bluesbird P90
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Repair: Guild Aristocrat/Bluesbird pickup.

Mandolin Modification
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Mod: DeArmond Mandolin pickup.

MM-90
New
Replace: MelodyMaker pickup in the spirit of a P-90.

MelodyMaker T-Top
New
Mod: MelodyMaker pickup in the spirit of a P-90.

Rickenbacker Frying Pan
Repair: Pickup.

Mosrite/Carvin AP6

67 Tele Bridge
Repair: dead Tele pickup—the cause is very common with a Tele Bridge pickup.

Airline Blade
Very old blade style pickup.

1955 Kay
Very strange pickup design.

Another Kay
Another play thing for me.

F-90
Filtertron style pickup made to fit under a P-90 cover.

Gretsch-DynaSonic
Repair/rewind: Gretsch (DeArmond) DynaSonic.

Stealth ES-120
Convert: 60's Gibson ES-120 to sound more like a Gibson of this era should without altering its vintage appearance.

HC-Strat
Hum Canceled Strat pickup design cancels the hum but still gives that true single coil Strat sound.

Stealth Fender Coronado
Convert: a 60's Fender Coronado to not sound so anemic without altering its vintage appearance.

Strat Bridge
Pickup that is a morph of a Tele bridge/Strat pickup. It is designed to make the Bridge position on a Strat useful by giving it a Tele bite.

P-90
P90 with a coil tap option and P90 blade design.

LaP-98
P-90 For 8 string Lap Steel.