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Oil City Pickups: A very strange custom job

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Yep, this is a neck humbucker for a Telecaster  ... built as a custom order for a rather special customer. This is kinda like a narrow Wide Range in sound as It's essentially two telecaster neck pickups (one reverse wound) on custom bottom flatwork and seated on a standard humbucker baseplate. It's interesting as with one coil shut down you get a perfectly normal tele neck tone ... and a fat and quite aggressive sound in humbucking mode.
This is probably not one that I'd put into production, not least because it is a total pain in the arse to make ... but it's a fun concept nonetheless.
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  • MegiiMegii Frets: 1669
    Looks kind of cool also! :)

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  • OilCityPickupsOilCityPickups Frets: 7616
    edited July 2018 tFB Trader
    Megii said:
    Looks kind of cool also!

    Oh I totally agree! I'm going to build one for the neck of one of my own Teles ... just cos it looks so 'out there'. Er ... and I don't charge myself for labour ...
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    Very John Jorgenson ;)
    Be seeing you.
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  • OilCityPickupsOilCityPickups Frets: 7616
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    That's interesting ... actually I'd never heard of John Jorgenson (I don't get out much)... so he certainly wasn't the rather special customer!  ;-)
    Though it may well explain why I was shown a rather poorly made Fender Custom Shop version and asked to come up with something better.
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  • RolandRoland Frets: 8108
    TheGuitarWeasel said:

    This is probably not one that I'd put into production, not least because it is a total pain in the arse to make ... 
    You could price it accordingly. It’s effectively two pickups in one
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  • gringopiggringopig Frets: 2648
    edited July 2020
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  • OilCityPickupsOilCityPickups Frets: 7616
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    gringopig said:
    I thought it was a double lipstick tube pickup at first glance. Certainly will beef up a weedy Telecaster neck sound!
    More powerful than a PAF certainly!
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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7202
    That's cool, looks good too. 13k DCR with 43awg?
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    Winny_Pooh said:
    That's cool, looks good too. 13k DCR with 43awg?
    Yep ... 
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