These pickups are certainly handwound and definitely scatter wound. Every pickup is handcrafted with an electric winding machine, or in some cases even with a manpowered machine. They are open sounding, clear, musical and make a perfect fit on every HMS electric guitar available, but… if you’re keen to get your hands on one of these exquisite pickups and their exclusive sound it’s certainly no big deal installing them on your guitar too. I make mostly Humbuckers and P-90 style pickups in different flavours but single coil TC- and ST- style pickups are also available. They are alI made of high quality parts (eg. nickelsilver bottom plates and covers) to ensure a transparent sound. I prefer nickel coated covers (especially raw nickel) and also golden covers but obviously, the customers choice comes first.

But anyway, check out the ones I have in stock - you might run into something interesting. You will find them here.

When I began building electric guitars there was one very difficult issue from the very beginning, the pickups - should I install my favorite pickups or cheap ones or maybe some hardcore boutique pickups? I didn’t really have a good solution until now - the problem is solved. I roll my own and install them into my guitars. As simple as that and much better.

The hype around scatterwound pickups will propably continue forever but if that’s what you wan’t I can guarantee you - that’s what you’ll get. 90% of my pickups are made with an electrical winding machine but as my hands are slightly shaking it'll be scatter wound anyway. If you wan't hardcore stuff I can give that too - my mechanical machine with a crank, then it’s definitly handwound, scatterwound + handcranked. My right hand tries to keep the speed consistent and my left hand controls the coil wire (and I’m right handed for sure). To sum it up, it’s like a 20’s typewriter but it makes the job done even in candle light if necessary. But nowadays that's special order stuff only, all the rest is done with the help of electricity. That gives my products the continuity required for this kind of job.

Do they sound different? or even better? Sure - of course they do... No, honestly, that’s a joke but the fact is - a guitar pickup has hundreds of different variables. When you tweak one of them all the other parameters will also change. It’s all a very complicated mix of parts impeding and influencing each other. So do they sound different? I would actually say it’s more a mix of psychology and taste. It’s a very subjective matter - how do my pickups sound - the decision is yours.

So if you go for my pickups, I can offer you all the classic models - Humbuckers, P-90’s, TC- and SC-style pickups and many other models too. They are all definitely hand crafted and they will all be available to you on my website.

Cheers and take care!