The Heretic is a high output, high gain, mid heavy humbucker that’s ideally suited to Metal and Rock. Built around an oversized Ceramic magnet, 5mm hex poles and a pair of coils wound up to 14.5Kohm of 43 AWG Plain enamel wire – its an absolutely classic tone that’s lasted right up to the modern day.

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Compared to the Hot Iron – our “go to” high output pickup – the Wraith distorts earlier, retains more clarity at higher gain, responds better to drop tuning, maintains a tighter low end response to avoid that dread “Flub” and doesn’t display that usual “mid range honk” that you’d get with something a little more traditional

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The Model 24 humbucker represents a new way of thinking of medium output pickups for us. Rather than a “vintage pickup that’ll rock”, it’s probably fair to say it’s a “Rock pickup with vintage characteristics”

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The new, Map Cap Humbucker - an out and out, point and shoot, tons of fun humbucker! A Funbucker! Nothing subtle, nothing delicate about it - just high output, gutsy, aggressive rock and punk tone for days

In the process of creating the updated Classic, we’ve tried to keep the name in mind, but without actually letting it pigeon hole us in the design! With that at front of our thoughts, we’ve come up with something that’s a little more modern tonally, a little more suited to to giving you the tone you’d expect from a 1950s pickup, but with that bit more range, that little more presence, that touch more “usability” in a 21st century setting.

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The Ethereal is a bit of a strange pickup on the face of it - it’s so highly wound at 17K that you’re instantly thinking “this is going to be high output/tons of gain/wont clean up” but its actually a bit “Sheep in wolve’s clothing” – and as such, performs much more like what we’d associate with a medium output humbucker.

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Built using 44 AWG Plain enamel wire wound onto brass stand offs and fibre board frames, and then everything charged up with a pair of polished Alnico 5 bar magnets, mounted to a German silver base, with a German silver cover, they’re a wonderful little design! Quite pretty in their own way.

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Designed for John Petrucci’s Music Man JP13™ guitar, the new Illuminator™ Neck and Bridge Models are the next generation in John’s signature pickups with DiMarzio.

Designed for John Petrucci’s Music Man JP13™ guitar, the new Illuminator™ Neck and Bridge Models are the next generation in John’s signature pickups with DiMarzio.

Transition Neck & Bridge Model pickups were designed for Steve Lukather and Luke's new LIII™ Music Man guitar. The pickups are named after Steve’s new album, Transition (release date January 21, 2013). Lukather played the LIII™ guitar with Transition™ pickups throughout the new record. The passive Transition™ humbuckers are both subtle and tough. They have power and they have depth. Steve says they’re organic, and they allow him to own his sound. “These days I like it simple and direct,” he shares. Steve says he's started over sonically and is into a more organic sound these days, but the Transition™ Bridge Model has a tough, in-your-face sound that's also perfect for shredding and technical playing.

The original Evolution® Bridge Model did exactly what Steve Vai wanted it to do: kick butt and produce serious scream. Then he wanted something a little more complex — the same basic tone with increased headroom and dynamics, so that the sound kills on 10 and cleans up when the volume is rolled down. With a little less power than the original Evolution®, Evo 2™ balances perfectly with the Evolution® Neck Model and performs equally well with high gain and vintage amps.

Steve's neck model has a very specific sound, which is almost exactly the opposite of his bridge pickup in every way — it has low output and a warm, very smooth, almost flat attack. The DC resistance spec is very high, but the magnet is not strong, and this combination accounts for the unusual mix of dark tone and low output.

This pickup started a sound revolution!

Replacement pickups simply didn’t exist before the invention of the Super Distortion® in the early Seventies. The Super Distortion® (and its original 3-conductor version, the Dual Sound®) was the first pickup specifically designed to kick a tube amp into total overdrive, and is still the standard by which all other high-output pickups are measured.

This is a “parts kit” for a “Fan fret” 8 string Humbucker, and contains everything you’d need to make your own pickup, EXCEPT the wire for the coils, the hook-up wire, any tape used to protect the coils after winding, and solder.

This is a “parts kit” for a “Fan fret” 7 string Humbucker, and contains everything you’d need to make your own pickup, EXCEPT the wire for the coils, the hook-up wire, any tape used to protect the coils after winding, and solder.

We're proud to finally be able to offer a DIY kit containing all the vital elements required to build a humbucker!

We're proud to finally be able to offer a DIY kit containing all the vital elements required to build a humbucker!

The old firebird pickup is very different to most "normal" humbuckers, and actually uses a pair of bar magnets in place of any steel poles, so we carry a kit to rebuild or repair that style of pickup.

We're proud to finally be able to offer a DIY kit containing all the vital elements required to build a humbucker!

This is a kit that includes everything you'll need to wind a traditional style mini Humbucker (except the coil and hookup wire)

We're proud to finally be able to offer a DIY kit containing all the vital elements required to build a humbucker!

This kit is a little more restircted then out normal humbucker kit (where you can pretty much build anything you can dream up!) - and that's completely intentional. This kit is designed to replicate one of the original humbuckers, warts and all.

So please bare in mind, that this kit only comes with the long leg bases, 5-40 UNC bolts, 6 screw poles, 6 slugs, and a base to accept them (the holes in the base are threaded for the pole screws) - its also only available in the 49.2mm spacing, as correct for the period.

At first glance, this kit looks near identical to our "normal" humbucker kits when speced up with 12 hex poles BUT this is actually different.

With the normal kit, the 12 screw pole option comes with M3 (or 5/40) bolts, which thread into the specific screw side bobbins, where this kit is supplied with M5 hex bolts, which are designed to thread into the "slug" side bobbin.

At first glance, this kit looks near identical to our "normal" humbucker kits when speced up with 12 hex poles BUT this is actually different.

With the normal kit, the 12 screw pole option comes with M3 (or 5/40) bolts, which thread into the specific screw side bobbins, where this kit is supplied with M5 hex bolts, which are designed to thread into the "slug" side bobbin.

We're proud to finally be able to offer a DIY kit containing all the vital elements required to build a humbucker!

A slightly strange take on a humbucker, here we have a SLANTED version - made popular originally on the Gibson Nighthawk, and more recently on fan fret guitars - the slanted humbucker offers a slightly more "quirky" look then the traditional type. Beyond the base, all the parts are identical thankfully.

This is what we’d call a “Triangle leg” humbucker kit – whilst it'll fit pretty much every guitar ever built, it differs from a "normal" humbucker because of the "wings" on the base. Basically, its got a smaller profile, so it'll fit into tighter routes. You'll often see this type of humbucker presented on guitars without pickguards of pickup rings, with the humbucker simply screwed into the guitar.