Praise Him with the vintage single coil! Praise Him with the menacing black hex screw metalhead bucker! Praise Him with the twangy Tele* bridge and the warm woody jazzbucker with gold cover! Praise him with the buzzing P90 and the quiet mini! Let everything that has a magnetic field praise the Lord! --- Psalm 150 (paraphrased, of course)
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Good News -- The Firebirds Have Landed...
Sick of the strange lack of vintage flavored Firebird mini's on the market? I'm hardly the only "booteeker" who winds vintage output Firebirds -- for that matter I'm new to the game due to a long search for non-tone-killing covers. But the big boys have clearly taken a bizarre view of this particular design in that they all seem to be 24,000,000,000k ceramic mag monsters designed for metalheads. That's right, you non-beehivers have been snubbed. Don't misunderstand, these can be wound hotter and can be made with A2 or A5 mags, or a combination thereof. But the debut set, the Waylon* set, is vintage at 7.2k bridge and 6.2k neck.
*(No, not that Waylon -- I'm not in a position to do any name-dropping just yet, especially not endorsees from the great beyond...)
*(No, not that Waylon -- I'm not in a position to do any name-dropping just yet, especially not endorsees from the great beyond...)
More Good News
Parking lot beatdown over the price hike received -- I cry uncle!!! Prices are returned to pre-hike levels. In fact, if you mention the bunny beatdown video at left, you get another $5 off each pickup! So stop already, Ow!!...Oof!!....Ow!!!!
NEW: STRELE Strat pu's
A blonde, redhead and brunette modeling the Strele look -- a flatpole Strat* pickup with twine to cover the coil, a la Tele* bridge. (Other colors are available too. For more info, inquire at zhangbucker@yahoo.com).
This is not JUST an aesthetic option: Flatpole with no cover means the coil itself is much closer to the strings compared to a standard Strat* design pickup with Alnico rods that protrude several millimeters above the surface of the flatwork. The result is livelier pickups with more sustain without losing the vintage tone and clarity. This means you can also set them lower to avoid the dread "Stratitis" and still get a strong signal.
For soundclip of the above Strele's (wound to Refin specs -- see Strat* singles page for DCR/mag details), click HERE.
This is not JUST an aesthetic option: Flatpole with no cover means the coil itself is much closer to the strings compared to a standard Strat* design pickup with Alnico rods that protrude several millimeters above the surface of the flatwork. The result is livelier pickups with more sustain without losing the vintage tone and clarity. This means you can also set them lower to avoid the dread "Stratitis" and still get a strong signal.
For soundclip of the above Strele's (wound to Refin specs -- see Strat* singles page for DCR/mag details), click HERE.
The WIDEBUCKER is HERE!
Look closely at this prototype and you'll see that the slugs are wider than the screws -- in this case, 7/32" vs. the standard 3/16". Why? For a wider sweeter tone at lower specs -- to combine the best aspects of the low and high PAF winds.
The protoype pictured is 8.4k/A2 and is intended for the bridge position only. Check out a soundclip of it here. (Yes, it is a Pure Handwound.)
The wide slugs are not limited to the Widebucker model and can be used as an option for $25 extra on any other bridge model I make.
Stay tuned for the SUPER WIDEBUCKER: A model with 1/4" slugs is next just to see how far we can go with this thing...
...AND A NECK VERSION of the Widebucker, which will have larger screws instead of larger slugs.
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