The Creamery - Custom Guitars, Handwound Pickups - Handcrafted in Manchester

Custom Guitars, Handwound Pickups - Made in Manchester, UK

"All my pickups are custom wound, often to customers own specs when ordered. I don't have a shelf of pickups all boxed up ready to send."

July 2011 - New Handwound Pickup Designs

Hi All, just wanted to let you know about a few new pickup designs just launched. I've had the designs finalise for a while now but have been rushing to launch them as it looks as though I could well be featured in a major guitar magazine in the next couple of weeks.

"Extra-Width" Wide Range/Thinline Tele Humbucker

"Extra-Width" Wide Range Humbucker

Magnets: Threaded Pole
Coil Wire: 43AWG Plain Enamel
Lead Wire: Vintage Braided
Bridge Output: 12.6k
Neck Output: 10.7k

My overwound version & true modern replacement for those Fender Wide Range / Thinline Tele Humbucker reissue Pickups. Still with the classic fat single coil tones - Great clarity and string definition with a bright warmth ... (click for more)

"Double Six" Alnico 8 Overwound Humbucker

"Double Six" Alnico 8 Humbucker

Magnet: Alnico 8
Coil Wire: 43AWG Plain Enamel
Lead Wire: Vintage Braided or 4-way
Bridge Humbucker Output: 13.4k
Neck Humbucker Output: 10.6k

An even hotter, overwound humbucker pickup that sounds neither muddy or shrill - A trio of custom Alnico 5 & Alnico 8 magnets help to give the pickup great punch in the mids ... (click for more)

P90 Stratocaster Pickups

P90 Stratocaster Pickups

Magnets: Alnico 5
Coil Wire: 43AWG Plain Enamel
Lead Wire: Vintage Cloth Pushback
Bridge Output: 7.8k - Middle Output: 7.4k
Neck Output: 7.1k

With its six adjustable pole pieces and dual magnet design, the new Stratocaster Sized P90 pickup is great if you're after that fatter single coil P90 tone ... (click for more)

Red '79 Stratocaster Pickups

Red '79 Stratocaster Pickups

Magnets: Alnico 5
Poles: Staggered or Flat
Coil Wire: 42AWG Plain Enamel
Lead Wire: Vintage Cloth Pushback
Bridge: 5.9k - Middle: 5.7k - Neck: 5.5k

Inspired by the New Wave/Post Punk era of the late '70s & early '80s, the Red '79 Stratocaster Pickup has that brittle, bright attack associated with much of the music of that era ... (click for more)

Overwound Humbucker sized Filtertron style Pickup

Overwound Humbucker sized Filtertron style Pickup

Magnets: 1/4" Alnico 5
Coil Wire: 42AWG Plain Enamel
Lead Wire: Vintage Braided
Neck Output: 7.3k - Neck Output: 6.4k

A hotter, overwound version of the original Swing-O pickup. Still with the classic bright tone but with an added fatness with more in the mids .... (click for more)

Alt '88 Overwound Telecaster Pickup Set

Alt '88 Overwound Tele Pickup Set

Magnet: Alnico 2 or 5
Poles: Flat
Coil Wire: 43AWG Plain Enamel
Lead Wire: Vintage Cloth Pushback
Bridge
: 13.6k - Neck: 8.1k

Inspired by the alternative music scene of the mid-to-late '80s this is my overwound take on the vintage Telecaster bridge pickup .... (click for more)

Thanks for reading

Coming in the next couple of weeks - New hotter versions of my Swing-O Filtertron style pickups, tri-sonic type pickups to fit a standard Stratocaster scratchplate and if I can finally choose the final specs, I've got a couple of interesting things coming up ...

You can read the reviews of my pickups here

and click here for repairing & rewinding a number of modern & vintage pickups

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