Greeting,
Pickups are just helpers between guitar/bass and amps.
We focused on how we can create the right coils.
Just 100 turns difference is enough to change the tone.
Pickups are perhaps just copper wires and magnets.
We find the right combinations of copper wires and magnets for each design.
Pickups are just helpers so we work to make them well balanced, well response, and with characters. That’s my thought.
I design the pickups to just go straight to the amp, where we can hear a difference. We suggest the right pickups for your combinations of woods and what you play.
Thank you for visiting us. Hope we can support your guitar and bass.
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St. Louise, MO USA
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(Truetone Music)
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(Thick As Thieves / Joshua Rollars/he Holy)
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S-SERIES
S1953
INSPIRED BY 1954 STRATCASTER®. TONES ARE BRIGHTER & MORE CHIMING COMPARED TO OUR 1960ʼS. IF YOU OWN TWIN REVERB WORKS FOR 5WAY SWITCH.
S1960
THIS IS A PICKUPS I LEARNED FROM 1960’S STRATCASTER®.WELL BALANCED. NECK IS SWEET & WARM TONE. BRIDGE HASNICE STRONG BITE AND BEEFY MIDDLE. MIDDLE IS DIFFERENTPOLARITY AND WINDING DIRECTION. WORKS FOR 5WAYS SWITCH. ROCK,BLUES,JAZZ
OR POP. THIS WOULD FIT TO ALLMUSIC. HAND WOUND. OUR BEST SELLING ST-TYPE. MANY PROFFECIONALS GOT THIS SET.
T-SERIES
T1950Pi
BRIDGE INSPIRED BY THE PICS OF 1950’S FROM HIS IPHONE. THAT SHOWED ‘A PART’ WAS UNIQUE. JUST THE 1950 GOT ‘A PART’. I TALKED ABOUT WITH MY FRIEND ALAN. HE SAID 1950, ANOTHER ‘A PART’ WAS DIFFERENT TOO. OK, 2 DIFFERENCE IS
ENOUGH TO MAKE DIFFERENT TONES. BRIGHTER THAN TELEKINESIS1953BRIDGE. THIS BRIDGE NEEDS TWIN REVERB.
T1953
INSPIRED BY EARLY 1953 BLACKGUARD®. WELL BALANCED, OF COURSE, THIS SET IS GOOD FOR COUNTRY MUSIC. BRIDGE HAS NICE SPANK AND BRIGHTNESS. IT IS TELE® STYLE NECK BUT WE CAN CREATE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, SRV LIKE SOUND TOO. I
KNOW I AM TALKING ABOUT A TELE® SET. SMOOTH SOUND. TELECASTER® PLAYER, FINALLY, YOU CAN CARE ABOUT NECK PICKUPS. BLUES OR EVEN JAZZ PLAYER WOULD BE HAPPY TOO. HAND WOUND. OUR BEST SELLING, FOR ANY MUSIC.
T1958AS
NECK AND BRIDGE, BOTH OF THEM ARE HIGH-DCR. SHORT NECK AND STAGGED BRIDGE. ROCK AND PUNK,EDGY TONES. oioioi. IF YOU ARE YOUNGER THAN 35, THIS IS YOUR SET.
About Us
My start was Fujigen,Matsumoto,Japan. What a factory, Fujigen build so many name brands: Fender®, Orevill by Gibson®, Greco®, Ibanez®, G&L®, Rolland®, Yamaha®… and so many more!
A few years later, I started to work at Fender Custom Shop. I had a chance to learn about the pickups from the lady legend of Fender. It was my second day. I still remember a method which she showed me. After that, I had chances to work
with Suhr Guitars and James Tyler Guitars. Their guitars are high quality and got strong characters. They are strict, proffesional, very smart, hard working and always suggest something new to guitars and basses. That is I always think
about and want to be. I supported their first year of GJ2(Guitars Made By Grover Jackson).
I started pickups repair and modifications service since 2006. I had been taking care of so many different pickups. From 40’s vintage to could be just a few month old one. I learned a lot from the repairs. I am designed a few different
vintarge inspired pickups. All of them were inspired from my repair works. Just a bit differences bring the different tones. And the tone got charctore for each eras. I could not pickup just 1 model for each designs because of they
all great and different.
Pickup is something I do. I am happiest one in the world when am taking care of pickups. I love working with pickups.
Please mail me free when you have questions, suggestions or anything. Would love to hear from you.
sayoko kuwabara
REPAIR & MODIFICATIONS
Quality repair and modifications combined together
I started from here. I took care of a lot of pickups from real vintage to maybe a few month old. Regular singles and hums, of course, bizarre’s and not sure where it coming from-one’s? I took care of 55’s, 60’s,66’s,68’s and 70’s Stratcaster®,
53’s Blackguard®, 58’s and 60’s Telecaster®, PAF®, T-Top®, Epiphone®, Heritage®, Richenbacker®, Kalemazoo®, P-90®, Jazz Master®, Jazz Bass®, Jaguar®, P-Bass®, O-PB®, Thinline®, National®, Kay®, Gretch®, Silvertone®, Kent®, Kimman®,
1939/1940/1941Charlie Christian® ….as long as I can disassemble, I can take care of it. I cannot repair glued pickups.
Single coils from $90-, hums from $100-.(+tax West Hollywood,CA) When we need to make bobbins or extra work, will be added. Estimate time is 1-2weeks.
Please bring or mail me just pickups. Guitar/Bass assemble and disassemble is +$80-.
Please contact with me before sending repairs. Please do not disassemble or break your pickups since I need to check the winding directions.
Stopping by or mailing.