So I ordered some custom pickups from Jaime at The Creamery - http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/handcr ... itars.html - I wired them in yesterday and gave them a brief play. I requested full, warm sounding pickups (to reduce trebliness) with a slightly higher output to match the humbuckers in my other guitar. First impressions are very good, they sound lovely and warm and good for both clean and distorted tones. I'm particularly impressed with the neck pup, it has a very warm smooth tone and not as boomy as the Antiquity II pup I had previously. I need to give them a good play to give a fuller a review but at the moment i'm happy.
Check out Jaime's website above, he has a good range of pickups including Filtertron and Wide Range Humbucker style - he'll also make custom orders.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:54 am
by lorez
J7, were they custom wound or were they stock pups? I'm looking forward to a more indepth review
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:02 pm
by johnnyseven
lorez wrote:J7, were they custom wound or were they stock pups? I'm looking forward to a more indepth review
He custom wound them for me. They're not part of his stock range, although Jaime liked the idea of them so much he said he'll probably add them to his range in the future.
Awesome. Get endorsement! They seem well priced for handwound in the UK. I just listened to a demo of his WRHBs on youtube. Sound amazing!
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Hope you get a demo up, would love to hear them.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:34 pm
by johnnyseven
Unfortunately I don't have recording facilities, audio or otherwise, or I would demo them for all you lovely people.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:29 pm
by the_creamery
Hi All, yes, I'd been working on a warmer, hotter Jazzmaster pickup set for a while but had put the design to one side whilst I worked on the Wide Range Humbucker replacements. It was only when Mark (johnnyseven) got in touch that I finalised the details (output, coil wire gauge etc).
As Mark has posted above, they're now on the site and I'll get some audio demos up there when I get the chance.
The actual video posted above is the single-coil voiced humbucker pickup I have on the site, not my Wide Range Humbucker replacements - Not sure what the rules are about posting comercial links on the forum but if you follow the link Mark posted above you can find the full range of my pickups. The video was a quick demo I did for someone just using the camera on an Apple MacBook and audio straight into a DI box, no amp, no plug-ins or filters to colour the sound etc.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:38 pm
by othomas2
Hi there, they sound great.
Do you make any Jaguar replacement pickups ?
Be great if you did some that are wax potted with claws for people like me who find the Japanese stock ones unsuitable and microphonic. There's definitely a market there !!!
Welcome to the site. I had no idea you existed until today.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:50 pm
by Fran
The Tele alnico 5 looks interesting with the copper baseplate;
copper plated steel grounding plate to shift the resonances toward the lows, resulting in a fatter, more pleasant tone
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:24 pm
by the_creamery
othomas2 wrote:Hi there, they sound great.
Do you make any Jaguar replacement pickups ?
Be great if you did some that are wax potted with claws for people like me who find the Japanese stock ones unsuitable and microphonic. There's definitely a market there !!!
Welcome to the site. I had no idea you existed until today.
I have two versions of Jaguar pickups ready to go, a vintage spec version and a more modern, hotter version - I'm just trying to work out the best deal on the claws. I didn't want to launch them without the claws as to me, they're not Jag pickups without them but its the actual manufacture of them. There is a place in the US that sells them and I've ordered a number of them, just waiting for them to arrive. I've made a few claws myself here in the workshop but they're very thick and require a lot of work to get them looking good.
Fran wrote:The Tele alnico 5 looks interesting with the copper baseplate
They've been getting some great feedback those Hot Alnico 5 Tele sets. I wind them with roughly the same width of coil but with taller magnets to keep the twang & brightness at a higher output. The copper plates steel baseplate is a standard on most tele sets and does just that. There's a guy called Ed Mitchell who writes for both Guitarist & Total Guitar Magazines who just fitted a set and sent me a great review so I must be doing something right
othomas2 wrote:Welcome to the site. I had no idea you existed until today.
I'm a best kept secret I've been doing a lot of work through word of mouth plus Facebook/Twitter etc plus I was featured in the recent Total Guitar "Best Buys" booklet which brought my stuff to a wider attention.
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:26 am
by johnnyseven
After band practice last night I came to the conclusion that I REALLY like these pickups. In the past I had a problem with the trebliness of my Antiquity II's. I like my tone quite dark and they always had a trebly edge that I didn't like, I resorted to fitting a 250K volume pot to try and tame them but I still wasn't satisfied. When I fitted the new pickups I put a 1meg pot back in, I roll the tone down to 4 and that is the sound i've always wanted - warm, full and with just enough treble. I also played my Coopersonic Dirtbox for the first proper time yesterday and the 2 seem to go together really well, i'm very happy. I also found myself using the neck pickup, which in the past I have very rarely done. I found the Antiquity II to be a bit too boomy, the new pickup is smooth and a lovely smooth sound. I highly recommend these pickups, i'm serioulsy considering a pair of Creamery Humbuckers for my B&B Jazzmaster now - i'm that impressed!
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:14 am
by johnnyseven
I was just having a look at The Creamery website and it seems that they are now making Jaguar pickups and with claws too!
