Oil City workshop moving sale ... part one!!!

OilCityPickups · April 2019

As you are all aware I expect, Oil City Pickups are moving to a new, and larger workshop facility ... still in Leyton E10 ... but much more capable of handling our volume of production these days :-)
So ... we want to travel as light as possible so I've put some effort into completing part made units, cancelled custom orders ... and you guys get the benefit of some fantastic pickups FAR cheaper than normal.

Above: Oil City Masterwound Cow-T-ron Classic Humbucker sized 'Filtertron style'. After a lot of soul searching I have decided to drop the Cow-T-Ron from our range. We simply don't sell enough 'Gretsch style' pickups to justify holding the very expensive parts in stock. It may be available at a later date again ... who knows ... but for the foreseeable future this is the last pair of Cow-T-Ron pickups I shall make unless it's a very special custom job.
4.5 and 4.8k, these are fitted with the proper, oversized alnico 5 magnets like a proper 50s Filtertron, and come with long, vintage braided cables. The current price on the website (before I take them down) is £109 a pickup or £218 the pair.
This last production pair will set you back new and boxed £130.00 for the pair ... delivered! SOLD

Above and below: Going through my boxes, I discovered some pre wound bobbin sets from June 2011 ... right at the very start of Oil City. My idea at the time was to pre-wind all the coils, then add baseplates and covers ... I made a bunch of pairs up ... put them in a box ... and promptly forgot them.
They are all hand wound by me, on our original (home built) winding machine, and were within the first ten humbuckers I wound for sale. I took them out of the box, have kitted them out with baseplears, covers, magnets etc ... added reproductions of our first 'red sunset' labels ... and serial numbers that go with when they were wound.

The first is this Nickel cover (no it's not gold ... that was early morning sun making the light warm) 52mm spaced, four conductor bridge Blitz spirit ... only the 6th Blitz spirit ever wound!
New and boxed £55.00 Delivered SOLD

Below: from that same box of bobbins came these ...

50mm spaced, short leg Scrapyard Dog set ... these too bear 'red sunset' labels, and sport 'smoke black' covers and gold pole screws. These look the business ... and would normally set you back £88.00 each (£196.the pair) with these custom order covers
New, boxed and dispatched to your door for £105.00 the pair! SOLD

Above: 50mm spaced Oil City Blue Streak humbucker. These are my take on the original 70's replacement high output humbucker ... before Larry changed the way they were made. This one has very slightly different coloured bobbins ... I only noticed it after I built it.
Normally £82.00 New, boxed £45.00 delivered

Above: a full relic covered Oil City Firewatch ... dogear P90
This Firewatch boasts an unusual square shouldered P90 cover (Gibson did do them for a very short period ... this is a repro) hand relic work, and poles with naturally aged plating, oh and a super heavy brass baseplate.
Normally £67.00 £45.00 Delivered SOLD

Above: 52mm spaced, four conductor Forces Sweetheart alnico 4 bridge pickup (triangular feet with nickel cover.
Used briefly as a demo pickup uncovered, I've given it a new nickel cover (not gold ... it's just the light)
And its going for £50.00 delivered SOLD

Roland · April 2019

Firewatch please. PayPal incoming.

OilCityPickups · April 2019

Roland said:

Firewatch please. PayPal incoming.

Sold to the man :-)

poopot · April 2019

OilCityPickups said:

Roland said:

Firewatch please. PayPal incoming.

Sold to the man :-)

Blimey! Early bird n all that... any more of these coming?

OilCityPickups · April 2019

There may be some relic Firewatch Soapbars ... I will see if it's worth building them up! I expect stuff to go fairly fast here ... it usually does ... and any bits left over will be put up on our Facebook page (not as heavily discounted as on here mind).

poopot · April 2019

OilCityPickups said:

There may be some relic Firewatch Soapbars ... I will see if it's worth building them up! I expect stuff to go fairly fast here ... it usually does ... and any bits left over will be put up on our Facebook page (not as heavily discounted as on here mind).

Need a dogear for the junior project

no worries!...

Moe_Zambeek · April 2019

I’ll have the trons if still available @OilCityPickups ;

OilCityPickups · April 2019

Moe_Zambeek said:

I’ll have the trons if still available @OilCityPickups ;

I'll PM you payment details

OilCityPickups · April 2019

Wooooo these are flying out the door ...

TTony · April 2019

Ash - I'll take the black Scrapyard Dogs please. Sure I can find a suitable home for them.

OilCityPickups · April 2019

TTony said:

Ash - I'll take the black Scrapyard Dogs please. Sure I can find a suitable home for them.

They are yours old chap ... and I must say ... they really are a bit special

robwright · April 2019

Can I take the Forces Sweetheart please?

OilCityPickups · April 2019

robwright said:

Can I take the Forces Sweetheart please?

It's yours mate ... I'll PM you payment details

Funkfingers · April 2019

I'm holding out for Stratocaster and mini-humbucker/Firebird replacement units.

DrBob · April 2019

Ash, have you got any bridge humbucker in the pile with flat mount lugs for direct to body mounting without pickup ring ?

OilCityPickups · April 2019

DrBob said:

Ash, have you got any bridge humbucker in the pile with flat mount lugs for direct to body mounting without pickup ring ?

I'll PM you

OilCityPickups · April 2019

Just the one pickup left here now ... come on chaps!

Funkfingers · April 2019

Paging @HarrySeven for the affordable double creme bobbin bridge/Treble position humbucker.

Jeremiah · April 2019

Bit of a shame you aren't doing the Filtertron style any more - that's one of the things that's on my list of pickup types to try (at some point after I get round to installing and trying some of the unused pickups I already have...)

Also, is the 'smoke black' finish available on all your pickups - like Winterizers for example?

IvisonGuitars · April 2019

Would be interested in the relic soap bars

scalino65 · April 2019

I dont suppose that a Winterizer might be turn up in this sale, might it?

OilCityPickups · April 2019

Jeremiah said:

Bit of a shame you aren't doing the Filtertron style any more - that's one of the things that's on my list of pickup types to try (at some point after I get round to installing and trying some of the unused pickups I already have...)

Also, is the 'smoke black' finish available on all your pickups - like Winterizers for example?

With the Creamery and Mojo and alegree doing versions of the 'Filtertron' it doesn't matter how good one's own version is, the limited market is totally saturated.
Smoke black was available from one US cover maker, and import was very expensive. semi matt black is available on all my range that take covers as a special order (including both sizes of Winteizer).

scalino65 said:

I dont suppose that a Winterizer might be turn up in this sale, might it?

I believe it might ... but probably not for a week or so.

IvisonGuitars said:

Would be interested in the relic soap bars

PM me and we can perhaps work out an order.

lovestrat74 · April 2019

When is part deux and what can we expect??

OilCityPickups · April 2019

Part two will be about the coming weekend ... more humbuckers of all flavours, including one or perhaps two Wide range types. A couple or perhaps more Tele bridge pickups ... Also things like humbucker rings and odds and sods ... there will be a part three and perhaps a part four.. Probably a few Strat pickups, some electronics parts ... some hardware I've collected ....

lovestrat74 · April 2019

OilCityPickups said:

Part two will be about the coming weekend ... more humbuckers of all flavours, including one or perhaps two Wide range types. A couple or perhaps more Tele bridge pickups ... Also things like humbucker rings and odds and sods ... there will be a part three and perhaps a part four.. Probably a few Strat pickups, some electronics parts ... some hardware I've collected ....

Funkfingers · April 2019

OilCityPickups said:

scalino65 said:

I dont suppose that a Winterizer might be turn up in this sale, might it?

I believe it might ... but probably not for a week or so.

In similar vein, is there anything in the parts 'n' prototypes stash that could be built into either a Marlene, a Winterizer or a hybrid of the two? (Ideally, with a semi-matt black cover like a Scrapyard Dog and exposed nickel pole screws.)

OilCityPickups · April 2019

Funkfingers said:

OilCityPickups said:

scalino65 said:

I dont suppose that a Winterizer might be turn up in this sale, might it?

I believe it might ... but probably not for a week or so.

In similar vein, is there anything in the parts 'n' prototypes stash that could be built into either a Marlene, a Winterizer or a hybrid of the two? (Ideally, with a semi-matt black cover like a Scrapyard Dog and exposed nickel pole screws.)

I'll have a dig for you

Funkfingers · August 2019

Four monthly thread resurrection.

Is the Blue Streak humbucker still available?

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