With the flurry of trade tariffs kicking off, I’m pooling recommendations of non-USA pickup winders. Please add your own country’s winders.
UK
Bare Knuckle
Gemini
Fletcher
UK
Bare Knuckle
Gemini
Fletcher
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Non-American pickups (megalist)
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Armstrong Pickups Dan Armstrong's grandson continues his legacy
Bloodstone GuitarWorks
Bloodstone Guitar Works specialise in custom building your dream electric guitar. Our aim is producing the ultimate tone and use natural finishes creating a product of true beauty. We have our own range of handwound pickups and offer upgrades, customisation, repairs and professional setups
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Catswhisker Pickups
Custom made electric guitar pickups made in the UK.
www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk
IronGear Guitar Pickups | British Pickup Engineering
UK-designed guitar pickups for Strat, Tele, P90 and humbucker-equipped guitars. Outstanding tone at a sensible price.
Toltec Pickups
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Germany
Poland
HISTORIA – Merlin2 Pickups
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Sweden
Any old cheap Chinese knock offs from Ebay. I have one in a P bass and its good. Cost $30.
The Creamery in the UK is highly rated. I'd love to have the opportunity to try one of their P pickups but, alas, $$$.
And Classic Amplification for Rick-based pickups are top notch.
And Classic Amplification for Rick-based pickups are top notch.
While I've no doubts regards a great $30 Chinese split coil bought from eBay I'm not so sure the term "knockoff" fits.
Very few guitar companies wind their own pickups, instead they contract folks like Donlis, G&B or WSC Music. When those factories hit their targets early they don't send the staff home or reset the lines, they just keep going until the end of the shift. 1000 units go in a box marked 'FMIC' and the other 2-300 units get sold to eBay/Ali-Ex traders.
Often the only difference between named and no-name is the shell hot glued on to the bobbin of one has a logo while the other gets a blank shell
Appreciate the info... interesting.
The story is. I broke my SD PU and sent it off to be repaired which took ages. In the meantime figured I'll get a cheap PU to tie me over and ordered one of those cheapies as I mentioned. Up shot is I sold the Duncan and kept the cheapie. Maybe I struck lucky but its got a lot of mid range which suits me fine.
The story is. I broke my SD PU and sent it off to be repaired which took ages. In the meantime figured I'll get a cheap PU to tie me over and ordered one of those cheapies as I mentioned. Up shot is I sold the Duncan and kept the cheapie. Maybe I struck lucky but its got a lot of mid range which suits me fine.
I hear you and agree with your decision wholeheartedly
My Peavey Ellefson sig , Zodiac DE, came with QPs as stock. Wasn't too keen as asked another Zodiac player how he coped, Chris told me he'd ditched the QPs for Alan Entwistle pickups. At £40 for a PJ set it was worth following Chris' advice
Duncan QP set in the Zodiac.
Entwistle Neodymium set in the Zodiac.
Alan has been a stalwart of the UK guitar scene since the 60's. Has his own pickup line but I thought this thread was concerned more with custom winders than off the shelf so didn't include a link. Will remedy that now.
