Gravelin Pickups

04/02/2026

For best tone and experience yes pour some beans on em. 100%

03/31/2026

05/17/2025

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05/02/2025

Thunderbird style built into mini hb using my custom bobbins and Alnico 5 bars that I cut in house, finished off with raw nickel open-center covers, gold foils!

02/15/2025

Hey!

I'm getting off of FB and all Meta Platforms.

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New website coming soon. My whole respect and career has been word-of-mouth so don't worry about: just look me up and find me.

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03/21/2024

I'm about to close on a 4000 sqft built in 1940 old-school dance hall as my next work/living space. It is incredible! All maple flooring that looks like a bowling alley, a full stage, incredibly well-kept and modified to have a full kitchen, shower, washer/drier, and modern conveniences. My current workspace will be the last part to move and I'll be smashing out current orders in the coming weeks and then "closing" temporarily.

The first things I'll unpack is the basics to build bobbins, wind pickups, and the essentials there. If I have parts in stock, YES! For High Custom work, please get in touch. Sept or Oct for quantity work.

The last month has been life-changing in so many ways both good and bad. I'm hanging in there and rocking forth! I hope you are too.

♥

03/10/2024

I had custom-sized bobbins made for me to do this with only a small compromise in coil length that still covers a full bass string spacing. TBirds in standard humbucker sizes or extra special Firebird styles here. A gold foil example of late shown, but will fit just barely into mini-humbucker sizing too. P90, Jazzmaster, EB, Widerange, etc etc all fit beautifully as well.

I am truly fully equipped and am cutting my own magnets in any grade, to any size or shape, and can/do build custom bobbin sizes and shapes at will per the customers need and request.

27 years ( ! ), a deep well of knowledge, experience, and skill, and an extremely well-equipped workshop allows me to do nearly anything!

I am so pleased and honored in serving my fellow musicians. 100% and Forever.

03/10/2024

A customer asked for a set of my Thunderbird bass pickups to be built into covers from a 60's MIJ bass. The original janky pickups were glued into the covers and the full assembly direct-mounted to the bass itself, with the pickup assembly suspended. Obviously this isn't at all a "best practice", but in order for my creations to fit and the bass to come back together correctly I had to stick to this type of build quality. And improve it.

The end-result? TBird bass pickups that are extremely light in their weight, fully shielded and grounded magnets, fit perfectly in the covers, sound fantastic, and I took an extra step for a gold foil aesthetic for visual appeal.

Nice!

02/25/2024

Check out this very rare set of Super bass pickups! Made by Hofner, these were licensed for use by a Matsumoku company for a bolt-on neck version of the Hofner Cavern bass. I was confused at first but after I pulled the covers and saw the same red coil tape and internal build, that confirmed the Hofner lineage. Very cool.

They arrived non-functioning, multiple internal shorts in the coils, the internal assemblies rife with dried booze drink and extensive corrosion. All the bits and pieces were cleaned and de-gunked. One of the frames was bent and the cover smashed in on one side so I straightened those out. I mic'd the original coil wire and found a match (.004) with one of my old spools of 44 Single Formvar wire. The coils were rewound to the 60s Hofner 511b spec, fresh charge on the magnets, new output leads, and a light wax potting to solidify the internal build - a perfect and complete refurbishing.