Sea Smoke - vintage style set (soapbar staple)

Sea Smoke - vintage style set (soapbar staple)

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Solderless setup with all required wiring available here.

 

This is the staple version of our popular Sea Smoke P90 set. This combines the Sea Smoke wind with alnico 2 'staple' magnets. These magnets give the pickups a brighter, cleaner and more delicate tone. Please check the standard Sea Smoke pickup page for soundclips.
 
This pickup set was designed from customer demand!
 
Having seen the number of requests and the outstanding feedback from this pickup set, it seems silly not to make it an official set.
 
We've had many customers approaching us asking for a vintage styled P90 set that could be found all over the 1950s-1970s. It had to be clean, articulate, mellow and have just enough output to kick a valve amp into beautiful overdrive when pushed, but not any more, so that headroom is preserved.
 
Starting from the Murky Horizon neck pickup, which was already in the ballpark of what we were aiming to achieve here, we already had a head start. As clean and low gain work were (presumably) going to be the primary uses for this set, the Murky Horizon neck could be a bit 'spiky' at either end of the EQ spectrum for these styles. This is great for clarity, but when you're playing clean and want a singing sustain reminicent of the good old days, it just won't cut it. We loaded it with alnico 2 magnets to smooth off the rough edges.
 
The Murky Horizon bridge is miles away from what this pickup set was made to recreate, so that design was tossed to one side. A new bridge build was in order. A vintage wind was created, a touch hotter than the neck to balance, but no more than was necessary to retain all the vintage goodness. To curb off a little bit of the excessive highs of the vintage wind, and to provide the singing sustain to match the neck, alnico 2 magnets were used once more.

Specs (neck/bridge):
Resistance: 8.2k/8.8k
Magnets: alnico 2 staple magnets
Output wire: Braided single conductor
Spacing: 50mm/52mm
Wax potted
 
Supplied with mounting screws

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Stefan Wunderlich
Great Pickup

I use this pickup in a lp junior style build and it gives me all I need. A beautiful fat and raunchy sound that clears up nicely with the volume and tone pot. Very warm but in a very lively way. Great for clean and mild overdrive. It just screams when giving it more gain ;)
Since it is this good, I will order another set for my upcoming 50 style lp build. Let us see how they sound with a thick maple top ;)
I simply recommend this pickup for those that need the classic blues/rock type of response.