Axes'r'us pickups

[Sock Puppet]

I've just noticed that they've their own badged range of pickups!

Tonerider Wlikinson Giovanni Fender -Guitar Single Coil Pickups Axesrus

Anyone tried them/know their provenance?

It's just idle interest really but I don't see Tonerider in there & wondered...

Rob.

[David Schwab]

They look like the same pickups as sold by Artec and others.

[jonson]

I spend a few hundred every year with them and it's allways next day delivery. Only bits and pieces for speed but no pickups. Did several years ago and what was listed as humbuckers in a single coil package was a single coil after all. That made the customer happy as it was what he wanted anyway. Good people to deal with, if you are after the cheap end of the range.

[Peter Naglitsch]

And they carry H-covers:
and PhatCat style covers:
among other stuff, so yeah, I have used them from time to time.

[Electricdaveyboy]

Are the covers Nickle silver or brass ?

[Peter Naglitsch]

Brass. For the H-shaped ones it doesn't really mather that much, but of cause NS would have been ideal for the Phatcat style covers

[Musiclogic]

They look like the same pickups as sold by Artec and others.

RoHs, RoHs, RoHs your boat....LMAO a little Artec joke. couldn't resist

The Giovanni and Wilkinson are Artec pick-ups, Tonerider gets theirs from the same vendor I believe, same as the old Rockfield pickups.

[David Schwab]

RoHs, RoHs, RoHs your boat....LMAO a little Artec joke. couldn't resist

The Giovanni and Wilkinson are Artec pick-ups, Tonerider gets theirs from the same vendor I believe, same as the old Rockfield pickups.

I thought Tonerider was making his own parts. He used to be a member on the forum here. He was located in Hong Kong.

Another Asian maker is G&B. They make the EMG Select pickups.

[Joe Gwinn]

I thought Tonerider was making his own parts. He used to be a member on the forum here. He was located in Hong Kong.

Some, but not all. I recall him mentioning various dealings with local manufacturers as well.

[RoadToNever]

I used to own a Rockfield Zebra set, nice set of pickups not mushy sounding like some cheap humbuckers.
Also had a Wilkinson stacked P90 set that hummed like regular single coils and sounded dull. Didnt investigate why just took them out.
EMG select humbucker sized bass pickups that came stock with my Hohner headless were rather bland compared to the Lawrence dual blades i replaced them with.

GFS pickups seem to be made by artec also. I wonder who makes the Kent Armstrongs.

[David Schwab]

Also had a Wilkinson stacked P90 set that hummed like regular single coils and sounded dull. Didnt investigate why just took them out.

I'd bet the two coils were wired in phase. That changes a stack to an overwound single coil. Wilkinsons are made by Artec.

EMG select humbucker sized bass pickups that came stock with my Hohner headless were rather bland compared to the Lawrence dual blades i replaced them with.

I'm sure they are made to EMG's specs, since their HZ pickups are rather bland as well.