Now you can build your own guitar pickups from the ground up: go for the vintage sound or wind it your own way for custom tone!

Each of our pickup kits has vintage-style parts and includes an assembly diagram to get you started.

Alnico 2 magnets give a warmer tone and low end response with smooth, singing highs. Many builders use them in the bridge pickups of solidbodies.

Humbucker Kit includes

• Nickel silver baseplate
• Unwound plastic bobbins (1 each cream and black)
• Nickel-plated steel polepiece slugs (6)
• Nickel-plated polepiece screws (6)
• Alncio 2 Bar magnet (Marked red on one end to distinguish it from Alnico 5)
• Polepiece spacer
• Plastic shim
• Bobbin mounting screws (4)
• Coil lead wires
• Braided push-back wire
• 4-conductor hookup wire
• Assembly instructions

The assembled pickup fits standard Gibson® P.A.F.-size (1-15/16" spacing) pickup covers and mounting rings.