Catch me on the Fretboard Forum!
With all the pressures of developing and building Oil City Pickups I have been a bit lacking in time to commit to this blog ... well I...
Oil City and nickel
For quite a while here at Oil City Pickups we have been trying to do our bit for the environment. We stopped using plastic boxes for...
Masterwound ‘The Last Word’ humbucker
Above: a Last Word humbucker on my bench, showing the unique tooling patterns found on genuine 50s PAF covers. I’ve been very lucky over...
Burns Rez-O-Matik rewind
Here we have a lovely old (and sadly very dead) Burns Rez-O-Matik pickup from the 60s/70s ... our job is to breathe new life into it....
The Brass Knuckle is back!
After over a year missing from our pickup lineup ... it's back and it's better than ever! For those of you who have never encountered...
Nearly there with the workshop move!
Another hard day of work fixing up the new Oil City home ... nearly there ... IT not hooked up yet ... but looking more like a workshop!
More workshop move!
A furious day of assembling benches, levelling benches ... sorting all manner of little niggles ... Chaos still rules ... but it's...
The great Oil City workshop move in full swing!
While everybody else is having May Bank Holiday fun we have been beavering away moving into our larger premises. Chaos rules at the...
A big move for Oil City
This doesn't look much at the moment, but soon it will be new and much larger home for Oil City pickups. During the last seven years we...
Masterwound Christmas sale!
Hello chaps ... time for my grand christmas sale ... spreading a bit of good cheer and all that. This year it's on my Masterwound...
