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My MJ-wound Custom Shop pickup.

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My MJ-wound Custom Shop pickup.

Very cool! So what's custom about it and what does hybrid mean?

[jhale667]

Very cool! So what's custom about it and what does hybrid mean?

It's the only one of its kind. Y'know, unless I like it so much I ask for another (which is a distinct possibility). It was made in the Custom Shop, wasn't done on the assembly line. Short of Fender's (retired) Abigail Ibarra, there's probably no one cooler to wind your pickup for you. MJ is a legend, she's the one that wound the Frankie pickup (among others for Ed, she showed me specs for 2 if not 3), and every other signature model you can think of (Holdsworth, Lynch, DeMartini, etc.).

"Hybrid" meaning it's coils from 2 different pickups (different wind, wire gauge, whatevs) 1 coil from a Custom, and the other is somewhere in the neighborhood of a Pearly Gates. I like the regular '59/Custom Hybrid, but I wanted something with a little more oomph, but didn't lose the articulation. So she changed the wind and the magnet (A2 instead of A5). So sure, you could pull two pickups apart, get some A2s and make your own PG/Custom Hybrid (they were nice enough to show me how to do it while I was there) but it wouldn't be this exact (MJ-tweaked) one.

It's going in the Bomber, of course.

[VAiN]

Nice man, I'm not all too familiar with what goes into making a PU but that all sounds awesome. Congrats on a nice piece!

[jhale667]

Thanks. Installed it last night, it sounds killer! Very STP-ish, or think whatever-the-hell-pickup was in Ed's guitar at the US Festival. No matter how much gain I throw at it thus far it still retains its almost single-coil-like clarity and articulation. But at the same time it's way beefy. The PG coil seriously asserts itself, killer harmonics, and the A2 kept it from being harsh in the high end. It's really present and sparkly but not screechy (thankfully). VERY satisfied.

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