I'm not doing Custom/Bespoke pickup builds anymore,
this webpage is left here only for historical reference
I believe this is the best job anyone has done with my pickups,
this bass was built by Luca...
The pickups are built (internally) like Ric pickups,
so they have that McCartney sound,
their covers are made from gaboon ebony
but shaped more like Thunderbird pickups
Ebony covered pickups, for a Beatle Tribute bass
Well done Luca!
This Classic Rick set was built for a customer in 2012, the high output treble pickup under a "Bart" style cover:
This set was built for a customer in Japan who plays a RIC® in a metal band, he said he has an aggressive playing style that requires resting his thumb on the bridge pickup's edge so I made an aluminum support bracket to rest his thumb on, and used a Firebird cover to protect the pickup
This set was built for a customer who has a white Thunderbird bass with all black hardware, he wanted some Classic Rick tone out of it so I made this set for him which have my Classic Rick pickup cores under those custom made covers:
Another customer, a luthier in Germany building a 5-string bass said his customer required Rick type pickups with chrome covers, but since there are no (decent) chrome covers currently being made for a Ric bridge pickups we decided on using these chrome Thunderbird covers which have my Classic Rick cores inside:
I developed this set for Josh Parkin (when Parkin Guitars was in Japan), he wanted some pickups with Fender tone for a custom Rick'ish build he was doing for a customer, internally these pickups are exactly like a Fender single coil pickups and Josh chose Formvar wire and alnico poles:
Staggered AlNiCo poles to match neck radius
Installed:
http://josh-parkin-guitars.com
I made a similar set for a friend who wanted pickups like those I made for Josh, but wanted them all straight up-n-down vertically but still wanted the angled bridge pickup tone like Tele/Strat:
I made a set of Classic Rick pickups in "Black-out" finish for a customer who had an all-black 4001:
One customer asked me if I could make a real "true" 5 string bass toaster so I made him this true 5 string bass toaster:
(not a 6 string guitar pickup)
This is a "sidewinder" humbucking pickup with end-blades built into a toaster cover, very highly out-performs an (OEM) RIC humbucker:
These are my "dual blade" humbuckers with C8 magnets installed under a toaster cover, these also very highly out-perform (OEM) RIC humbuckers.
With arced radius blades
Flat non-arched blades in Black finish
Classic PAF set
Classic PAF with cover
VC64
5 string Rick
