Here’s the rough first mock-up of the new pickup packaging. When you buy a single pickup it will come in the new ‘cigarette pack’ style box. Maybe I should have vending machines in your local guitar shop – just swipe your card and take a pack.
I’m on course now for the site to launch at the end of May – Everything is in place, just testing the online shop and hoping to record some demo videos.
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/handwound-pickups/the-packaging/
Quick progress update. Here are the first three guitars from the Blackguard series – 6 guitars crafted from 30yr old pine. A jazzmaster style with custom handwound H-cover humbuckers, a Standard telecaster and a Tele Custom style, both with sets of my handwound pickups.
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/the-creamery/the-blackguard-series-pt-1-the-first-three/
Taking inspiration from the phrase, “The Telecaster: The Plank That Made Good” please be upstanding for Guitar 007 – Blackguard Three. The dry pine was such good wood, with such great tonal characteristics I couldn’t let any go to waste – hence ‘The Plank’ , or the nickname that seems to have stuck, ‘The Mutt’. The obvious choice of guitar to build with these offcuts was a Telecaster style. It just seemed the right thing to do. So here it is in all its ragged glory – Blackguard Three: A telecaster style guitar with handwound pickups and the bite & twang you’d expect.
Handcrafted Fenruary 2010.
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/general/blackguard-three-the-plank-tech-specs/
The traditional tele neck sound – A clear bright tone with smooth mid frequencies and warm, rounded lows. The soft attack of the Alnico 2 poles is ideal for a clean tele sound. Nickel plated silver cover, vintage style cloth covered lead wire and wax potted – can be matched with a vintage tele bridge for a 50s tele sound and great for reverb.
More details and soundfiles when the site goes live.
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/handwound-pickups/new-pickup-%e2%80%93-tele-alnico-2-vintage-neck/
A couple of Humbuckers, Telecaster Bridge & Neck pickups and a P90 before potting. Vintage cloth pushback leads for the single coils and braided pushback for the Humbuckers. I’m having the pickups professionally shot for the site but here’s a quick pic of just some of the range prior to going live.
http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/blog/handwound-pickups/just-some-of-the-pickup-collection/