SHELLEY
Watercolor of copper wire wound on a pickup bobbin.

Pickups

Single coils.Scatterwound by hand.

Each pickup starts from a recipe. Then it’s wound to taste, the way a chef cooks.

Partial and unpotted are the specialty. Complete potting available.

Build yoursMore — Pickups

Redacted technical drawing of a six-pole single-coil pickup.

Inside

Magnetism and metal.

Alnico. Steel. The pull on the string.

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Watercolor still life on a workbench: quart cans of lacquer and shellac, spray cans, and three hand-wound single-coil pickups.

Potting

Partial.Or full. Or none.

Your call.

See it — Hand-wound single coil

Redacted technical drawing of a bridge pickup coil.

Single coil · broken winding

The ghostpickup.

The winding breaks inside. The meter reads nothing. The pickup still works.

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