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The Teisco square pole pickup

While I had a bunch of Teisco K series guitars around I thought I'd do a blog on the design and execution of one of my all-time favourite pickups. The...

Ibanez Black Eagle pickup repair

The Ibanez Black Eagle bass (2409B) was developed in the mid 70's in an attempt to move Ibanez away from the "copy market" and into more original and noticeable guitars...

Guyatone LG-20 pickup rewind

I've written about the wonderful Guyatone LG-20 before and have owned a few of the over the years. There's lots of info on that blog I linked to so I...

Guyatone LG-65 pickup repair

I've got an awful lot of vintage Japanese guitars lying around the workshop and every so often I get upset seeing them covered in dust and being tripped over so...

TMI Custom LPS

Back in December I finished one of two new TMI guitars I had started a couple of months earlier to clear my brain of the world. That one was my...

Tym Mosrite MK II/V P-90 pickups

This is probably my last project for 2021 and it's been something I've wanted to make for quite a while.  After finally finishing my Wosrite '64 pickups recently I decided I...