Arnsparger Pickups is dedicated to giving you the best in product and service. Strat® style, Tele® style, Humbuckers, J-bass® style, P-bass® style, P90® style and pickups for lap steel.
I assemble and hand wind these pickups myself. There are some pickups that I make on a regular basis like the Vintage Pro Series, and a few others but I also offer custom wound pickups. Just tell me what you are looking for, then along with a few other questions, I will then build your own special pickup. These pickups will tickle your senses. They deliver the tone that you're looking for. My pickups have a 5 year warranty against defects in material and/or workmanship. I also have a 21 day tonal exchange policy.
Guitar Digest just reviewed the ST Tele® set of pickups in the Fall 2008 issue. Here is some of what they had to say:
"The bridge pickup... is a tapped pickup so you can get two sounds out of it. One a more traditional Telly sound, and then a bigger fuller more powerful robust sound.....The bridge pickup in the tapped mode has plenty of Telly twang so you can do all that stuff Tele® bridge pickups are famous for. It is full sounding with nice highs and focused lows. The mid peak toward high mids. It has a little more guts and volume than traditional Tele® bridge pickups. It also blends nicely in the dual position with the neck pickup. It warms the twang to a nice full sounding blend that worked great for more rock and blues leads.
Where I fell in love with the bridge pickup was when I went to the full on sound. That position takes you into rock and roll territory, giving a hint of P-90 sound but with less bass and a brighter top end. It is sitting in the bridge of a Tele® right? The mid peak gets moved lower in the spectrum. It can overdrive an amp more than any traditional Tele® pickup. Cranked all the way it sits nicely at the edge distortion. You're not into humbucking overdrive but you are over the edge. You still get that Tele® flavor too. In combination with the neck pickup you get more of what you had before with a fuller richer beefier sound. I tended to stay on the bridge side of center. If you want a Tele® on steroids this is the side for you, but a more countrified player might favor the neck side of center."
The ST set comes with the Vintage Pro neck pickup. This setup requires a 5 way switch also. Marc at Guitar Digest had it wired this way.
Tele®, Strat® J-Bass®, P-bass® is a registered trademark of Fender Musical Instruments P90 is a registered Trademark of the Gibson Guitar Corporarion of which we are not affiliated. In addition to making pickups, I do pickup repairs, rewinds and wax potting. So feel free to contact me or just to give a listen to some of my pickups, I'm sure you'll like them.
The pickups that you hear here are just a few of what I have to offer. I make pickups for bass and have one for 6 string lap steel. If you don't see it or hear it, contact me I can probably make it. Also Alnico II humbuckers available now. You can go to my web site arnspargerpickups.com and listen to some more of them, get a little more info and prices. Please any questions or comments feel free to contact me.
Now a little about myself. I've been in the guitar repair field for over 18 years and a musician for even longer than that. Music and guitars have been a very important part of my life, for most all my life. It is a passion of mine. I love hearing and creating music. I love being a part of the creation process whether it is sitting around playing or someone using one of my pickups or, my doing some other type of service on their instrument. Music is one of our greatest gifts and I enjoy being a part of the process. Other than that I enjoy my family, good friends, NASCAR, the mountains, archery and hunting.
Thanks for looking over my page and pickups, and if you're a musican then keep on making great music with great tone and Tickle their senses.
