P-9 soap bar pickup

My custom “P-9” soapbar pickups are made to old world, high quality standards with the finest materials available.  Each pickup is made by hand, to order, especially for you.  Order fulfillment time is about 2 weeks.  (WARNING-unpotted pickups are slightly microphonic on purpose.  Not for super high gain applications!) These pickups feature rough-cast alnicoV bar magnets, under black butyrate plastic bobbins, wound with 42 AWG plain enamel coated magnet wire, all tucked neatly under a Butyrate 50’s style P90 pickup cover.  Hookup wire is the traditional, vintage style braided 2 conductor wire.

Each pickup is carefully made, with the finest materials available, and to the highest standards possible.  These are not made by trained lackeys or machines, they are each wound by hand, on a direct drive pickup winding device that I made after studying the early pickup winding devices of the electric guitar pioneers of the 1950’s. The wire is guided by hand, producing a scatter wound pattern in the coil that cannot be replicated by any machine. The finest USA made alnico bar magnets are sourced for production, as well as the best quality USA made enamel coated magnet wire. The alnico bars are charged magnetically by hand using a magnet charging device of my own construction. No corners are cut to keep costs down, the aim is to make the highest quality, hand made, best sounding boutique pickups available.

Reviews from owners…

“Best sounding P-90 I have tried!”- James in Boston, Ma

“Classic growl and sonically very full range pickups.” – Holly in Austin, Tx

“Perfect fit in my vintage Les Paul Jr, and the tone is divine.” – Larry in Huntington Beach, CA