KENT ARMSTRONG® HANDWOUND SERIES SIDE MOUNT ARCHTOP ULTRA SLIM PAF STYLE CHROME MINI HUMBUCKER PICKUP MADE in VERMONT USA
Model: KAHW-ULTRAPG-C
This humbucker is hand made by Kent Armstrong at his USA facility. Hand made by Kent Armstrong at his USA facility, this humbucking pickup at an ultra-thin 8 millimeter thickness available in both neck and side mount with his special advanced air coil technology.
This is the thinnest humbucker of record and perfect for guitars with a deep neck set, or a shallow string angle. This pickup attaches to your arch-top pickguard with a strong adhesive (not supplied).
Features:
- Dual air coils
- Compensated alnico v bar magnet, 8.25k ohms resistance
- Metal case is available in black, chrome, and gold
- Side mount version which attached to the pickguard.
Moderate, very tonally balanced, string to string. Use with small fender amps.
This pickup is superb, it does the gentle jazzy sound very well, and sounds more like the 'electric' jazz guitar sound (Jim Hall's d'aquisto with Guild humbucker), rather than some magnetic floating archtop pickups which sound 'acoustic'.
It is beatifully buzz and hum-free, and feedback-howl resistant, and amazingly, sounds brilliant overdriven, through effects, you name it, even manages controlled feedback, which is rare for a full bodied jazz guitar with a floating pickup.
Kent has created a handmade Johnny Smith style pickup that has the same body size and appearance to the Gibson original.
They contain Kent's own premium quality handwound pickup coils and magnets, and each pickup is individually wax potted.
So outstanding in performance are these pickups we believe they are every bit the equal (if not superior) to the tone and output of the originals.
Each pickup is individually handmade in the USA by Kent.
