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Tym Gretsch mini T-90

I found some pics while looking for something else of a pickup I made a while ago for friend. He has a big hollowbody Gretsch Electromatic and wanted a hot P-90 in...

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...

Teisco K4L

I've written about the K series Teiscos a few times, but I thought I'd do something a little different with this blog since I have had these 2 here waiting to...

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...

Columbia guitars

Another short lived and little known vintage Japanese guitar brand is the reasonably small production guitars and amps made in the mid 60's in Japan under the Columbia name. To...