Custom & Alternative
Pickup Builds

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

More Pickups

 

 


Classic PAF set

Classic PAF with cover

 

 


Ebony covered pickups, for a Beatle Tribute bass

 

 


VC64


5 string Rick

 

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