New 7 string 'active mount' humbuckers coming soon!
A look at the process that happens in designing brand new pickups: here our popular Blackbird humbuckers are being re-designed to fit...
More for the bass players!
Here's one for our bass playing customers: Starting out as a 'proof of concept' idea for one of our customers ... this is a 51 style P...
Another Masterwound 'Big Block' coming soon ... the GainPlus!
Get into a jam session with this single coil in humbucker size! Capturing the jangly, cutting tones of the sixties and seventies this...
Rewinding a 60s Jaguar
In early 1965 Leo Fender sold his company to CBS ... and we all know both the legend of pre CBS quality, and post CBS cost cutting. Well...
Old Hofner Jazz guitar rewind
Most of what I do all day is make new pickups ... Oil City Oil City Masterwound ... but sometimes something cool and old comes in to be...
Why are our HB sized P90s so good?
There are a lot of humbucker sized P90s on the market, some good and some not so good. Our HB90 series, the Mighty Ninety and it's sister...
Oil City packaging goes plastic free
I get fed up with the mountain of plastic that you get with so many products these days ... as a guy, especially razor refills! All that...
Restoring a 1964 Telecaster pickup
In this blog I shall be regularly taking you into my workshop to look at some of the interesting 'classic pickup' rebuilds and...
Welcome to a new site and a new blog!
Hello, Happy New Year! Welcome to the new Oil City Pickups blog, and indeed the new Oil city site. We have made it more dynamic, added...
