Dawgtown Handwound Pickups

[vikingred]

Found this guy on ebay who does handwound oldschool strat pickups in various styles.  Just search on ebay for dawgtown.  Check these out:

I bought 5 different sets from the dude, and he was super cool, included some extras, and I installed the first set and used them today, they are AWESOME sounding, and surprisingly quiet for single coils.  The guitar cavity is well shielded but I think it has something to do with how he winds them.  Very cool, and worth checking out.  Great guy to work with.

 

[musicispeace]

Nice, I'm always keeping an eye out for interesting single coil pickups. Thanks for the tip.

 

[vikingred]

Nice, I'm always keeping an eye out for interesting single coil pickups. Thanks for the tip.

I'm debating which of the 5 sets I'm going to install in the Canary Strat I'm starting on this weekend.  The aged '64s sound really nice and clear.

 

[Surf n Music n Ski n Bike]

They all look nice and a pretty sweet price. Good looking out  :icon_thumright:

 

[musicispeace]

Nice, I'm always keeping an eye out for interesting single coil pickups. Thanks for the tip.

I'm debating which of the 5 sets I'm going to install in the Canary Strat I'm starting on this weekend.  The aged '64s sound really nice and clear.

Know that feeling. I have a couple three sets around the house waiting for me to do something. Pickups and necks are the slippery slope for me.....

 

[vikingred]

Nice, I'm always keeping an eye out for interesting single coil pickups. Thanks for the tip.

I'm debating which of the 5 sets I'm going to install in the Canary Strat I'm starting on this weekend.  The aged '64s sound really nice and clear.

Know that feeling. I have a couple three sets around the house waiting for me to do something. Pickups and necks are the slippery slope for me.....

Man it's a disease.  I've got it bad.  Plus, I've really enjoyed my last build--I got a woodburner and an unfinished alder body and just went for it, and it came out ok.  I did a search last night on Great Ape's amazing work, looking through a lot of his past builds and I was blown away, totally.  That dude is seriously talented.  Inspires me to attempt some custom art work again with wordburner and some color this time. 

 

[vikingred]

Wow, man. It's 10 years later, and that guitar I was building at the time, "The Canary Strat" now belongs to a friend of mine, Pepper J. Keenan, the guitarist for Corrosion of Conformity. I surprised him one day, called him up out of the blue and asked him if he wanted "a guitar". Of course he did, and so I mailed it to him. Then, as fate would be he texted me yesterday out of the blue, "this guitar is awesome," how did you make this.

He's going to be using it on his next studio CoC album, and said he's putting me in the "Thanks" for the album. Very cool guy. I went to high school with him at Carrollton Presbyterian back in 1983-84. Then we ended up in the dorm for a semester at LSU. Little did I know, he would go on to be one of the most incredible sludge-rock guitarists in the world. His work with Phil in the band "Down" has also been wildly successful. Pepper is one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet. And I'm glad I gifted him the "Canary Strat".