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Super Telebucker - 6.0k/A5 rods & A3 bar magnet

11/17/2015

Essentially a Telebucker 3 with Alnico 5 rods in place of the adjustable screws. The standard Alnico 3 bar magnet is still there to power the steel slugs in the other coil.

Designs don't always work out the way you think or hope, but this one did. Sounds pretty much exactly like what you're thinking right now -- a combination of a standard construction humbucker and a Fender-style single coil. Not for the Tele* player looking for the Keef sound (the Telebucker 2 or 3 is for you) but for the guy looking for some of that Fender-flavored snap and twang out of the neck while keeping some humbucker warmth and width. The A5 rods protrude a couple mm above the surface of the bobbin to get some of that single coil air in the tone.

It's designed so that the Alnico rod coil faces the neck so install it in the reverse orientation at your peril. (Okay, okay, it's easily reversed but "peril" is more dramatic.)

SPECS:

6.0k
A5 rods / A3 bar magnet
42 PE or Formvar

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Introducing Pure Handwound Rod Magnet Single Coils!!!

11/17/2015

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If you're hip to my Pure Handwound (PH) humbucker line, you've likely read on the Humbucker page that the PH format is limited to humbucker because it didn't make enough of a difference with single coils to do it.

But R&D at Zhangbucker Labs has produced a new PH wind pattern that made me eat my words -- it works GREAT with rod magnet single coils. The prototype set was a formvar Refin Strat* set with what I call the Zhang Stagger (soft vintage stagger with G lower than D). The guinea pig was the man after whom I named the Cherrick P90 set. Here are his words:

"o.m.g. Got 'em, put 'em in one of my best Rhomco-Guitars built Strats, played 'em last night. The guys I play music with were perplexed that I was literally jumping up and down, screaming about the new pickups. I am beside myself. I thought the Formvar '50's-style pups you built were the nuts. These are clear, but so full of meat and tonal range."

Okay, so anybody can post a cherry-picked complimentary email or post. Soundclips would be far better and we're working on that so stay tuned. But mark my words, the clarity is just devastating. They're great clean but they really shine under gain -- downright scary.

P90's NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PURE HANDWOUND!

The new Pure Handwound P90's require a slightly taller bobbin so if you use shims to mount your soapbars. For this reason, it will probably not work for most dogear P90 guitars -- unless you modify the bend of the baseplate ears.)

Strat* and Tele* and P90 versions are all $130 per pickup.

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90-Buckers ... A True P90 in Humbucker Format

11/17/2015

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No more metal covers to suck away that P90 growl and sizzle we all crave, these actually sound like real P90's. They are now available in black or cream plastic, or the original forbon (smaller photos above).

The customer for the forbon models above wanted red twine on the coil, but black tape can also be used, and tape is better for allowing more space on the ends, which is at a premium on humbucker-sized P90's (ask any winder). As you can also see with the end shot, the bobbin is a bit taller to help with the end space. The forbon set above was made all-A5 and 9.3k/7.2k. The set in the LP in the top photo are the same specs except the bridge is 5/2 rather than all-A5. The plastic is not as soft as the forbon so the extra A5 is not needed to get the sizzle.

The forbon models are still $90 per pickup, but the black and cream plastic are $105. (The plastic is a bit less forgiving than forbon.)

90-Buckers are available in black or cream!

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Attention Metalheads!!!

11/17/2015

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At last a weapons grade pickup without giving up clarity and note separation!

The Plutonium 239

14.2k with an Alnico 9, that's right, Alnico NINE, magnet. What is 9 like, compared to Alnico 8? Even hotter, yes, but with more bite and chainsaw grind -- A9 is to A8 what A5 is to A2, but minus the mid scoop. It is also made with 12 large screws, so you have the secret weapon of being able to use that second row of screws to dial as much extra midrange in or out as you want by raising or lowering the second set of screws -- only more so because of the wider screws (6/32 vs traditional 5/40). Use the traditional 6 screws on the bridge side to raise or cut treble/presence.

The neck model is 8.5k/A5 and can be made with standard size screws if you prefer.

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Super Telebucker - 6.0k/A5 rods & A3 bar magnet

Introducing Pure Handwound Rod Magnet Single Coils!!!

90-Buckers ... A True P90 in Humbucker Format

Attention Metalheads!!!

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