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If there's one iconic guitar pickup par excellence, perhaps the most iconic in the history of the electric guitar, it's the Gibson PAF. This pickup was a true technological breakthrough when it was released. Thanks to its clever design, it eliminated the "hum," that infamous 60-cycle hum generated by single-coil pickups.

Making a new guitar pickup is always an exciting experience. You try things out, you experiment, sometimes starting with a vague idea, a simple desire to use a particular component, and other times you begin with a very specific idea in mind. When DoomFred told me about a pickup he liked, he immediately mentioned a dual-blade humbucker, with two rails instead of the traditional screws and pole pieces. During our discussions about legendary pickups , the Dimarzio Super Distortion came up, the first high-gain pickup with a ceramic magnet in the history of electric guitar, back in 1972: the beginning of the modern era. We also talked about Black Sabbath, Jimmy Page, and Dave Murray. So, the challenge was on.

Here is a small glimpse of our work through photos of our clients' electric guitars, pickups mounted of course.

To celebrate the upcoming release of Jerry T. and the Black Alligators' new album, we are delighted to welcome Jerry T., guitarist and lead singer of this truly pure blues band. He kindly agreed to answer a few questions about the group, his projects, music, his instruments, and life in general.

When a real guitarist (which I'm no longer!), a professional in his field, gives you a demo video of your pickups , it's just fantastic. When that guitarist is Jerry T., from Jerry T. and the Black Alligators, and he plugs into a high-end amp..

pickups that are hard to find. A few weeks ago, I met Steve Marlowe […]

After about a year and a half of work, experimentation, testing and trials of all kinds, doubt, development, graphic design and photos, the final version of the site, fully bilingual French/English, is finally online!

Today's task is to remove the worn cover from a Bareknuckle Warpig humbucker and replace the cable. The old cable is only 10cm long, so I'm going to replace it with a 4-conductor cable, which is better suited to this type of very powerful pickup. Coil-splitting the coil will bring back a bit of warmth to this otherwise aggressive pickup.

Here's a question every guitarist asks themselves sooner or later in their musical career: "Which pickup should I choose for my guitar?" The reasons for this desire for change are numerous and varied: a change in sound, switching to humbuckers, installing good pickups on a kit guitar, the need to upgrade an entry-level guitar…

For this first project, made between [dates missing], I started with a Stratocaster as a base for the body and neck shape. However, the similarity with this iconic Fender model ends there. I've always dreamed of a guitar with a "wraparound" bridge, like the ones found on Gibson Les Paul Junior and Special models, and I'm a fan of the same brand's P90 pickups . So, it was on this basis that I set about building my first guitar from November 2019 to January 2020.