Some believe that the wood a vintage guitar is made of changes as it dries, making the guitar more resonant. Others believe that the finish has something to do with it, since the nitrocellulose lacquers used by most manufacturers in the 1950's and '60s
is nothing like the modern waterbased paints used today. Whatever the reason, the
modern guitars or basses available today simply don't seem to sound or play like
an original 1950's model, and the originals are impossible to buy unless you're a lottery winner... even if you could still actually find one somewhere. Even trying to find
good original parts for a vintage instrument nowadays can seem impossible.

        Enter Angeltone Musical Instruments...

        Angeltone musical instrument pickups are individually hand machined, hand assembled and hand wound pickups made in the USA with
    all of the sound, detail and power of an original vintage pickup and with no compromises in quality, materials or tone. In fact, each of our
    single coil pickups is made 'the way they used to', with real Forbon vulcanized fiber bobbin parts, Alnico magnets, 1950's style Formvar
    insulated coil wire or plain enamel wire (depending on the model), and period correct hookup wire. For example, each of our 1950's Strat
    style guitar pickups (like the 5S7 shown here) has the correct magnets for each model with corner bevels hand ground into the magnets for
    a real 'vintage look', real nitrocellulose lacquer sealed parts, Formvar insulated coil wire, cloth covered 'pushback' style hookup wire,
    and wax potting for structural strength and microphonics suppression. Each of our pickups is then signed and serial numbered by the winder,
    tested for quality and tone through a variety of vintage amplifiers, boxed with a datasheet listing the pickup's actual specifications, and only
    after that are the pickups shipped to you.

       How do we do it? It's simple. We believe that the only way to achieve that great sound heard on so many old recordings is to make our
    pickups as accurately as possible. We're so obsessive about it that we hand machine all of own bobbin parts for our single coil pickups,
    use nitrocellulose instead of modern waterbased lacquers, and hand wind our pickups using a coil winding machine that we made ourselves.
    In fact, we don't use 'modern' cast plastic bobbins or ceramic magnets if the original pickups weren't made that way, because we believe that     changing the way a pickup is constructed in any way can drastically change the pickup's tone.

       Why do we do it? Good question. We do it because we believe that the pickup is the guitar's voice. Anyone can build a great looking guitar
    with all the right parts, but putting 'modern' pickups in a reliced guitar doesn't quite make it sound or play like a fifty year old original would.
    After all, isn't your instrument's tone just as important as the way it looks?

   
   
       By the way, our pickups are also available in either 'vintage correct' same coil winding direction and magnetic polarity or 'RW/RP' with one
    pickup reverse wound/reverse magnetic polarity for hum suppression at no extra cost - please specify when ordering. Also, each Angeltone
    musical instrument pickup is covered under a limited lifetime warranty covering its materials and workmanship to the original purchaser.
    Please click on the Legal Stuff link in the menu at the top of this page for details.

       'Custom ordered' pickups are also available with your choice of parts and coil windings at extra cost. We also can make pickups for left
    handed instruments with correct magnetic staggering for your application. If you are interested in 'total custom' pickups, please click on the
    Pickup Info link above for some reference reading on this subject and email us for more details.