Post by somebodyelseuk on Mar 31, 2023 8:00:11 GMT
Hiya,
Just a thread to bring to attention a pickup winder well worth a look at, budget allowing. Radioshop Pickups, in South Wales.
Last year, I bought a set of their CS63 pickups to fit in to a Tokai, along with aluminium shield, Bare Knuckles 280k pots, 0.1uF cap and steel Gotoh trem. I wasn't looking to build a Hank-a-like Strat. I wanted to make as close as I could a 1960 spec Strat.
I used these specific pickups, because they are repros of an actual set of '63 Strat pickups, and I wanted the 'randomness' of not knowing which pickup should go where - I requested they didn't mark them 'bridge' etc, and they fitted equal length leads on all the pickups.
Two weeks later, the pickups arrived. After I'd fitted the pickups to the scratch plate, I measured the DCRs, just to see what had landed where - b/m/n = 5.8/6.1/5.9.
They didn't disappoint. As the older members know, I don't actually play Shadows stuff - it's my Dad's era - but my yardstick for evaluating vintage-esque Strat pickups is to record a couple of Shadows tracks and listen to the results through a plugin chain I setup years ago to replicate Hank's sound.
All I can say is, the hairs on my arms stood on end when I listened back to the results.
I'm not much of a HBM style player, and I dare say, compared to the best here, my sound is not that close, either.
I was that blown away that I had a set of their Vintage 57s made for a Fender Japan '54 Replica, with the same requests as before.
Anyway, a bit of publicity for them, and a heads up for you guys - they do have their standard sets, but they wind to order, so if you want something specced a little different, they'll do it.
Their website -
www.radioshoppickups.com/
Just a thread to bring to attention a pickup winder well worth a look at, budget allowing. Radioshop Pickups, in South Wales.
Last year, I bought a set of their CS63 pickups to fit in to a Tokai, along with aluminium shield, Bare Knuckles 280k pots, 0.1uF cap and steel Gotoh trem. I wasn't looking to build a Hank-a-like Strat. I wanted to make as close as I could a 1960 spec Strat.
I used these specific pickups, because they are repros of an actual set of '63 Strat pickups, and I wanted the 'randomness' of not knowing which pickup should go where - I requested they didn't mark them 'bridge' etc, and they fitted equal length leads on all the pickups.
Two weeks later, the pickups arrived. After I'd fitted the pickups to the scratch plate, I measured the DCRs, just to see what had landed where - b/m/n = 5.8/6.1/5.9.
They didn't disappoint. As the older members know, I don't actually play Shadows stuff - it's my Dad's era - but my yardstick for evaluating vintage-esque Strat pickups is to record a couple of Shadows tracks and listen to the results through a plugin chain I setup years ago to replicate Hank's sound.
All I can say is, the hairs on my arms stood on end when I listened back to the results.
I'm not much of a HBM style player, and I dare say, compared to the best here, my sound is not that close, either.
I was that blown away that I had a set of their Vintage 57s made for a Fender Japan '54 Replica, with the same requests as before.
Anyway, a bit of publicity for them, and a heads up for you guys - they do have their standard sets, but they wind to order, so if you want something specced a little different, they'll do it.
Their website -
www.radioshoppickups.com/
