My pickup covers that come standard with my Strat pickups (Nov '00) can be ordered in White, Black, Mint, Parchment, Cream, Old Strat and Aged White ( go to my Shop Online to see a photo of the colors) Also you can tint White covers yourself with water based food dyes so you may not [...]

The way humans listen to the sound of a pickup is a very complex thing. Different people listen to, and focus on different elements of the sound, so there is no ONE way to describe it that everyone can relate to. Some listen to the attack (transient amplitude & rise/decay time), others the warmth of [...]

Absolutely none. Provided your guitar has Strat* type pickups then Kinmanusa pickups will go straight in and you don't even need to change the volume pot (Strat's with VN pickups excepted because these use 1Meg pots which have to be changed.). You may want to shield the control cavity of the guitar as wiring and [...]

Hank Marvin of the Shadows loves them, he even has his own models designed to give him the perfect tone without noise that he's always wanted. He recorded his latest albums with them. Gary Moore, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Thompson, The Corrs, The Vines and many more also use them. There is also a list on [...]

We think they are the best in the world. Because other brands don't have access to my advanced Patented technology they suffer in varying degrees from a choked, strangled, compressed and constricted feel. Of course their makers recommend using a 500K or 1Meg Ohm volume pot to alleviate this problem but it doesn't really fix [...]

To make this type of pickup quiet is less than easy, but the real challenge is to make it sound great! After 16 years of R & D, which resulted in several international patents, I developed a unique magnetic shield design and special dissimiliar coil technology (DCT) which together do the job perfectly. This design [...]

Machine wound coils normally look very neat whereas handwound are a bit untidy. Untidy sounds great so I'm happy to say that all my coils are a bit untidy. My special machines are highly trained to wind like handwounds are, but much better because only machines can control tension accurately and consistenty and provide very [...]

The Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups bear no technical or sonic resemblance to Kinmanusa DCT (see Q6) design pickups. It appears to be based on a 1972 Patent design (USA Patent number 3,657,461 of 18th April 1972) for the first Stacked single coil type pickup. Confusion may have arisen because a certain Fender Custom Shop signature [...]

One magnet stagger can't possibly match all the different fretboard radii of modern guitars, that's why I offer my Fender models with two radius options. Standard is the 7" ~ 14" radius range with a low G pole magnet stagger to suit most single coil pickup guitars. These are available as right or left hand [...]

Which sound are you looking for? (see question 10) What radius option is needed, see answer No3 or simply state the model of your guitar if you are not sure., White, Mint, Parchment, Old Strat, or Black covers (Strats only)