Coming Soon - the Axesrus AG-TB1

Built in collaboration with Alex Guildford

The Classic 50s deluxe edition has finally arrived! These pickups are the next stage in the development of our hugely successful “original” Classic 50s, and in a slight departure from what we normally do with Humbuckers, there’s a specific Bridge and Neck pickup - obviously, no hard and fast rules, but we've found the best results come with a matched set.

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The Ethereal is a bit of a strange pickup on the face of it - it’s so highly wound at 16K that you’re instantly thinking “this is going to be high output/tons of gain/wont clean up” but its actually a bit “Sheep in wolve’s clothing” – and as such, performs much more like what we’d associate with a medium output humbucker.

The Hot Irons are without a doubt one of our favourite humbuckers, that combination of high output aggression, responsiveness and power, combined with that beautiful, musical character from the Alnico V magnets, so we're pleased to be now making a 7 string version!

Coming at traditional from the other end of the spectrum, the uncovered version of the Hot Iron Humbuckers have given us a little bit more license to cater for the Fat Strat® player out there, so rather then just playing it by the numbers, we’ve made them a little bit more customisable then we’ve ever done before.

Beyond just offering Black, White and Zebra, we’re offering them with a choice of pole colours, be that Gold, Black or Chrome – really looks the part, and doesn’t ruin the theme of a guitar by having a clashing colour on your pickups.

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The HSA290s are a little twist we’ve developed on the popular Late 50s model that’s really pulling up trees in its humbucker form. The original model has been incredibly well received by jazz players looking for that little more authenticity from their tone.The makeup on the L50s is so specialised, we wanted to make something a little more accessible, a little less demanding, and so in a first for the company, we’re actually producing a pickup in house here in the UK!

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The Axesrus Insult and Injury Humbuckers are our first real foray into the increasingly popular world of Alnico 4 Humbuckers, and they’ve yielded some very interesting results!

Bringing a similar sort of flavour to the traditional Alnico V that we use to great effect with the Hot Iron and Leadline humbuckers, but sporting a little more character in the mid range to really beef up the tone, these humbuckers are absolutely ideal for rock and blues work, when your looking to push the amp a little harder, but without losing copious amounts of the pickups character.

Harking back to a simpler time, these really are a no nonsense pickups, wound in that sweet spot between 7k and 8k, they’ll take whatever you can throw at them, from pop through to hard rock and every thing in between - as you'd expect really - these are the style of pickups that started everything. The magnets, having slightly less pull then the modern alternatives lend a slightly top heavy edge to the overall tone, and help ring every last ounce of sustain out of any guitar.

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The next step on the P90 ladder, taking into account the changes made in 1957, Alnico V Magnets replaced the Alnico IIIs used previously.
This resulted in a drastic drop in top end, but increased middle and bottom end, giving the new generation a throatier, growling tone.
Again, great for anyone who likes Classic Rock, Hot Blues and Country - just roll back the gain to cool them off, giving a beautiful, flowing clean sound, and throw it back up to get sharp, snapping distortion just remember that the these P90s will be slightly darker than the earlier models thanks to the Alnico Vs

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Coming at traditional from the other end of the spectrum, the uncovered version of the Laudanum Humbucers have given us a little bit more license to cater for the Fat Strat® player out there, so rather then just playing it by the numbers, we’ve made them a little bit more customisable then we’ve ever done before.

Beyond just offering Black, White and Zebra, we’re offering them with a choice of pole colours, be that Gold, Black or Chrome – really looks the part, and doesn’t ruin the theme of a guitar by having a clashing colour on your pickups.

The Axesrus "Mucky Puppy" Humbuckers - a real delinquent of a pickup, designed to be a straight shooting, plug and play bucket of fun for anyone playing that more modern blues rock style of guitar.

Francis Gill has worked closely with us for a number of years now as our resident guitarist and product development consultant. He is the man you’ll hear on the vast majority of our sound recordings, so it only seemed fitting to actually make him an Axesrus® Humbucker that exactly matched his wants and needs – and here we are - “The Purist”!

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The Vagrent is something we've been working on for a while now - its a medium output humbucker, but taking alot of inspiration from lower wind vintage models, as well as some of the hotter character from high output humbuckers.

Compared to the Hot Iron – our “go to” high output pickup – the Wraith distorts earlier, retains more clarity at higher gain, responds better to drop tuning, maintains a tighter low end response to avoid that dread “Flub” and doesn’t display that usual “mid range honk” that you’d get with something a little more traditional – this results in a much sharper, more rangy tone – maybe lacking a little of the versatility of the Hot Iron, but beating it hands down in terms of performance in the heavier stuff.

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We're proud to finally be able to offer a DIY kit containing all the vital elements required to build a humbucker!

We're proud to finally be able to offer a DIY kit containing all the vital elements required to build a humbucker!