Totally Custom
The Sky Is The Limit!
Many basses and guitars don’t have routing patterns that will fit common pickup designs. Many older guitars with “odd” pickups can be rebuilt or customized as to not change the original look of the guitar.
Basses in particular, with active/passive electronics can have custom wood pickups installed when the original equipment breaks down.
Always inquire… it doesn’t cost a cent and you will probably be surprised at what we can do. Check out our gallery of custom pickup designs for inspiration:
Recording Bass Replica
Tim couldn’t find a replacement Bridge pickup for his 1970/71 Sakai/Kawai Japanese Copy of a Gibson Recording Bass. So he sent us the Neck pickup…
MJS Copper Strat Set
Mark is starting a Stratocaster Baritone conversion modding in a “Penny Copper” finish. So we made Custom Copper Covers to house his MJS Strat Set…
Jazzmaster Gold Foil
Michael was looking for the authentic Gold Foil tonal qualities as well as the Gold Foil aesthetic. MJS Hum II wound to 8.6K with High Energy…
MJS C.C.T. (Charlie Christian) Tele Style
Randy @ RAAPT Instruments is building a Tele Style guitar specifically needing a Charlie Christian Style of pickup to go with a Standard Tele Bridge. …
Rebuilds of Vintage Pups are Always Fun!
Michael’s ‘60’s Hoyer Solist was equipped with this unique “Vintage Roger” pickup but he found the Single Coil too noisy and wanted a clean warmer…
Copper is the Trend!
We all know that Rick at Carmine Street Guitars LOVES his Copper – So of course we Copper Plated the cover for this MJS Firebird…
Mixing and Matching Mediums
Lyric’s Ernie Ball Luke 3 with Super Custom Pickups – Tele spec’d Neck pickups with a Hum 0 Bridge – Abalone Inlay on Richlite caps…
Custom Zhongruan
We built a special pickup for Tennyson King. It’s for his new Zhongruan – A Chinese Instrument often referred to as The Moon Guitar. Love…
4-String Rickenbacker 4003s Neck Pickup Replacement
Michael has installed and wired his new MJS 4-String “Nacho” pickup…He says: “All I can say is wow. This pickup is everything I wanted and…
Specially Made T-Style Pickup Sets for Carmine Street Guitars, NYC
These Specially Made “Nailhead” T-Style, Humbucker, Jaguar & Big Single Sets are made Exclusively for Rick Kelly & Carmine Street Guitars. All Wood Bobbins are…
Rick Kelly @ Carmine Street Guitars
John’s Pizzeria of Bleecker Street in New York did a restaurant remodel. The old benches that were notoriously used as a canvas that folks inscribed…
Cindy Hulej @ Cindy Guitars
The Old Time Bar Restaurant in New York also did a remodel and provided Cindy with the old boards to make this truly unique guitar…
Custom 14-String Pedal Steel
Wow that’s a lot of strings! EVERYTHING Custom Made for this 14-String Pedal Steel Pickup Set for Justin. The Making of Instagram Video Link
Custom Lapsteel Build
Yaz should be VERY proud of herself making her 1st ever Instrument for her Physics Exam Project! We helped her make this 1 of a…
Custom Cover & Rings
Leroy’s 70’s Gibson Les Paul Signature (before pic) came with odd size, low output pickups that he wasn’t feelin’. No problem! Here’s a MJS Custom…
Custom Bouzouki Pickup
Daniel at D’Entremont Guitars provided the schematic of the sound hole so we could make a Custom Bouzouki Pickup for him – Easy Peasy.
Custom 5-String MM “Old Smoothie” Style
Our MJS version of the MM “Old Smoothie” Bass pup in a 5-String format for Lanna @ Landy Guitars. Using monster 😲 .375″ DIA X…
Custom 2-String Acoustic
We did this Custom 2-String “Peanut” pickup for Harris initially because his Taylor 314ce had V-Bracing which limited our clamping ability and also needed to…
Humbucker Alternative Look
This is our Black on Black Humbucker that looks pretty cool and Rock ‘n Roll! Black Oxide Metal Beauty Ring with Black Foil Insert and…
Custom MJS EB-Style Pickups
This Gorgeous Bass made by Randy at RAAPT Instruments was built for Brett Carruthers of The Birthday Massacre & A Primitive Evolution. Equipped with Custom…
Electroduochord Dual Stacked Single Coil
Here is Stefan’s MJS Electroduochord Pickup Assembly. This is a Dual Stacked Single coil assembly with separate outputs for a 2 string instrument. Made for…
Custom MJS Stacked “Kick” Single Coil for Lap Steel
Mert’s 1939 Epiphone Electar Lap Steel has been lovingly converted and is now hum-cancelling! We made a Custom MJS Stacked “Kick” Single Coil with Neodymium…
Custom MJS Gold Foil for Kelly Guitars
These Custom MJS Gold Foil pickups were made for Rick at Kelly Guitars and are ready for the Vintage Airline Tuxedo Barney Kessel Restoration Project…
Custom Cello Pickup
This Custom Cello Pickup was made for Gustavo & will be installing it on his Yamaha SVC-50 4-String Cello – it attaches as an extension…
Humbucker Sized Tele Tone
Don’t let the Humbucker Sizing fool you – Lyric’s Ernie Ball Sterling Albert Lee is ALL TELE – ALL THE TIME! We wound the pickups to…
MJS Tri-Fecta Pickups
The MJS Tri-Fecta Pickups – This is our take on the Classic Single Coils. A little more warmth, a little more power. These pups have…
Custom 7-String Tele Set
This Custom 7-String Tele Set is all done for Terry’s New Custom Build. It’s a Traditional Tele set with individual Alnico 5 magnets, Vulcanized Fiberboard…
Bill’s Custom MJS Progressive Strat Set with a bridge KICK
Bill’s Custom Strat Mod is all done! Equipped with a MJS Progressive Strat Set with a KICK in the Bridge position. Individual On-Off switching for each…
Gold Foil Grill Minibuckers
This Set of Unique looking Gold Foil Grill Minibuckers are ready for Behrad’s New Build @ Toronto Lutherie – Neck @ 6,300 AL5; Bridge @…
3 MJS Stacked Big Singles for Custom 5-String Bass
Casper’s new pups made it to Denmark! Fun project making these 3 MJS Stacked Big Singles for his Custom 5-String Bass that needed the pickups…
Andrew’s 7-String Music Man Sterling JP
Andrew’s 7-String Music Man Sterling JP now equipped with a Custom MJS Split Single-7 Neck and Black Earth-7 Bridge. Great Combo for open airy neck…
MJS Stacked 8 String Lap Steel Acoustic
Niklas is very happy with his new MJS Stacked 8 String LapSteel Acoustic pickup! Made with Adjustable Polepieces and Neodymium magnet formula to balance string…
Custom 10-String Split Single Pickup for Pedal Steel
This was a Fun project with Pierre-Yves! We made the Control Box and a Custom 10-String Split Single Pickup for his GFI Pedal Steel to…
Tim’s New Build
Tim’s New Build needed humbucker “sized” pups to give him classic Surf and Reggae tones that’s very clean, jangly, and very sharp attack. So we…
Custom Big Single 5-String Bass
Tommy’s Ibanez Sound Gear 5-String Bass ready to rock with new Ultra Custom MJS BSR-Bass 5 pickups. We also switched over the electronics from Active…
8-String Lapsteel Pickup
New 8-String Lapsteel pickups all done for James! His ‘50’s National Lapsteel Double Neck now has 2 Custom MJS Black Earth Humbuckers that Split/Tap with…
Custom MJS Acoustic Soundhole Pickup for Todd at Royal Harp Instruments
This very unique MJS Acoustic Soundhole pickup was made for Todd at Royal Harp Instruments. Vintage looking with the Filtertron-Style Gold Foil. We made a…
Custom Bass Humbuckers for Gilmore Guitars
A Custom Set of Humbuckers for this Bad Boy! A New Creation of David at Gilmore Guitars in the works – the Gilly Bo Bass…
Custom Acoustic Soundhole Pickup for Gilmore Guitars
This very custom 3 ½” Acoustic Soundhole pickup was made for David @ Gilmore Guitars for a very special Parlor Guitar Build. This beautiful handmade…
Custom Full Floating Pickup
These little guys were made for Oliver at Apitius Mandolin Corp. He’s going to give them a nice finish to match the Mandolins and then…
Stacked & Rotary Combo w/Metal P90 Nickel Covers
Paul’s Reverend Warhawk 390 is ready to rock with tones galore!! 2 MJS Stacked Big Singles for the Neck & Middle and a Rotary in…
Custom 8-String Pickup
We made this Custom 8-String Gold Foil Richlite pickup for Russel’s New Build. The large Single Coil and High Energy Bar Magnet stays true to…
’53 National Dynamic Replica
Bernard @ Hayotuk Guitars had a special project for us – he was restoring a customers ’53 National Dynamic 1125 Archtop but the pickup was…
Custom 7-String Lap Steel Pickup
Ivo requested this Custom Hum-Free 7 String Stacked Tele-Style Bridge pup for a Lap Steel new build he’s making for his wife. Now that’s a…
Hooked on “Polyphonics”
James asked us to make this Low Resistance Custom Polyphonic P-Bass pickup with individual coils so he can send each string to a separate channel,…
Something Different “Under the Hood”
Eric’s PRS NF3 has been Jazzed up with 3 Big Single Retros Under the Minibucker covers. 7 different switching options gives this guitar lots of…
Custom 8-String Split Single
Josh’s 8-String Split Single is all done for his Kiesel! He wanted a strong Strat like tone for his Neck position yet humbucking and needed…
Jazzmaster Super-Mod!
Brian’s Jazzmaster is now like no other. This One-Of-A-Kind Mod was done to get the maximum amount of tone variations from one guitar using Stacked…
Ultra-Thin King Resonator
Our Thinest pickup so far! Stephen’s Recording King Resonator is singing loud and clear – equipped with the our Ultra Thin (7mm) MJS Split Single…
Gretsch White Falcon
Blair’s Gretsch White Falcon now equipped with Custom DeArmond Style Stacked MJS Big Singles retrofitted with custom baseplates.
Rickenbacker 360
Blair’s Rickenbacker 360 ready to rock with new MJS Big Singles retrofitted into the stock beauty rings. Special string spacing, Alnico 5 pickups with a…
Gretsch 3-Way
Was great to be a part of this project! Grayling wanted to transform his Gretsch Rancher into a 3 way guitar – Acoustic, Electric and…
Mark Pellizer’s Gretsch Electrosonic
Hidden beneath the Filtertron style covers is a Split Single Neck a Hum III Bridge with 12 AL5 Individual Pole Piece Magnets and Black Carbon…
Stephen’s Jazzmaster
Stephen’s Jazzmaster is dressed up with some custom cover cut-outs and gold-foil inserts. He wanted a twangy Tele-style tone so we made Split Single pickups…
Lipstick Strat
Josh’s Strat is strutting its stuff! If you like the TONE of a STRAT but the LOOK of a LIPSTICK – We’ve got you covered…
Authentic Gold Foil Tone
New Millimetric MG6 “Goldie” Shoreline gold finish, maple neck. Custom MJS Gold Foil pickups with Custom Richlite Covers – Authentic Gold Foil Tone, Single volume…
4-String Strat-Style
MJS 4-String Strat-Style pickup – Ideal for those who want it installed for baselines and run thru a separate Octave Pedal.
Custom 6-String Bass
This is Randy’s (RAAPT Custom Wood) awesome Custom 6-String Buckeye Burl Bass. It’s equipped with an MJS Custom Hum IV 6-String @ 14.6K ohms with…
“Monster” 7-String Acoustic
This is “Monster” by Joe of Urban Custom Guitars – He was asked to build a 7-String Death Metal Acoustic guitar and this is his…
Custom 5-String Bass
Very Special Custom 5-String Bass by Joe of Urban Custom Guitars – Equipped with MJS Bass Humbucker 5-String, 11E, AL5 Indiv.Polepieces Neck and MJS Bass…
Custom MJS Humbucker with Custom Wood Cover & Ring
Jack’s Ibanez RGA is all done!! Custom MJS Humbucker Set with Custom Wood Cover & Ring – Bridge pup done to match up with his…
Fender Thinline Tele Acoustic – Stacked Adjustable Tele-Style Neck Pickup
Marshall Dane enjoying his Thinline Tele Acoustic newly equipped with MJS Stacked Adjustable Tele-Style Neck pickup. This pickup is not only hum-cancelling but each polepiece…
Ibanez BTB-5 String Bass
These MJS Custom 5-String Bass Humbuckers were made for an Ibanez BTB. Neck @ 12,000 ohms, Bridge @ 14,000 ohms using Alnico 5 individual pole…
Nathan Pryor Electric Uke
Nathan did a great job with this custom semi-hollow electric uke! Equipped with MJS Custom Single Coil Uke Neck Pickup – 6.5K ohms with 4-Individual…
DB Custom Cigar Box
Love this rock’n DB Custom Cigar Box – very classy! Equipped with MJS 3 polepiece Big Single Retro with two Alnico5 bar magnets & an…
Ibanez Artcore – Twang Machine
Andy was thrilled with this set of MJS Hum I pups. Specially formulated to channel a little Brian Setzer…twangitty, twang, twang!
Strat to Slide Conversion
Check out our Strat to Slide conversion… has a MJS Big Single Retro Neck and a MJS Custom Adjustable Big Single Bridge with an Ebony…
MJS BSR Thin Resonator Pickup
Great overall look! Customer requested a handwound single coil pickup for his Republic Resonator. We made a MJS Big Single Retro-Thin at 7.6K ohms with…
Candy Apple Ibanez
John’s Ibanez RGR is coming along nicely. Custom Candy Apple bobbins painted for the pickups to match guitar. Waiting on Tremol-NO. Then this beast will…
The Legator
Stephen’s Legator 7-String Ninja is now a kick-ass versatile Axe! Equipped with a MJS Stacked Big Single Neck with Carbon Fiber bobbins @ 18K ohms…
2-String Pickup
The tiniest pickup MJS has made so far. This is a 1/4” high Hi-Energy Single Coil meant for only Electric Guitar strings. Used when folks…
The Dean – Upright Bass
Here we have Brent’s Dean Upright Stick Bass. It came stock with a transducer pickup in the saddle of the bridge. To combine with his…
Gold Tele
A nice way to incorporate covered and uncovered pickups. Jonathan’s all gold John 5 Tele equipped with MJS Split Single Neck @ 7.8K Alnico 5…
Les Godfrey’s New Build With MJS Custom Elliptical
New build by Les Godfrey Guitars – stunning! It features a unique MJS custom Elliptical Split Single Pickup with Curly Maple base and Ebony cap…
MJS Custom 8-String Split Single
This beautiful 8-String fan fretted archtop custom build sings loud and clear with it’s new fret job and custom MJS 8-String Split Single. Custom Ziricote…
MJS Black Earth – Crunchy and Clean All-in-One!
This beautiful 8-String fan fretted archtop custom build sings loud and clear with it’s new fret job and custom MJS 8-String Split Single. Custom Ziricote…
MJS Recycles!
This was one very kool project! John @ 2nd Shot collaborated with CSL to make a gorgeous Strat-style Skate Guitar – yes folks… made from…
MJS Rocks this Melody Maker!
This Melody Maker has been untamed! The original pickup and pickguard are out… 2 MJS Big Singles now rock this under appreciated guitar. The Neck…
Master Luthier George Rizsanyi’s Gorgeous all Ziricote Tele
Equipped with MJS Tele-Style Neck @ 8K ohms and MJS Humbucker III @ 9.8K ohms. Both Alnico5 magnets. Custom matching Ziricote wood covers. This is…
Rock Maple Bass
Another example of a bass with no after-market pickup options when the original equipment no longer meets requirements. A pair of 1/4” X 5/8” Alnico5…
Joe Young’s all Rosewood Evolution Guitar
It’s equipped with an 8.5K ohms AL5 MJS Tele-style Bridge and a 7.8K ohms AL2 MJS Hum I Humbucker. He also added an Evertune bridge…
Master Luthier George Rizsanyi’s Tone Missile “Puzzle” Guitar
This amazing Purpleheart and Padauk Tone Missile is equipped with MJS Tele-Style Neck @ 7,500K ohms and MJS Humbucker II @ 8,500K ohms. Both Alnico5…
Custom Rosewood Soapbar Pickups
Not too many options for pickups in these style of basses Custom Rosewood Soapbar pickups are equipped with Split Single Alnico5 3/16″ magnet neck and…
Canadian Guitar with a Western Red Cedar Top
An all Canadian guitar with a Western Red Cedar top. These low-output Alnico2 Split Coils look great being made from the same Red Cedar board…
Beautifully Accented Pickups
This customer wanted pickups to accent the beautiful wood of his guitar. The neck pickup is a Big Single with Padauk cover and Curly Maple…
Beautiful Unique Archtop
This customer has a beautifully unique Archtop which needed a pickup just as unique. This is a Rosewood Split-Single Humbucking pickup with Alnico5 magnets wound…
G&L Comanche
This customer did not think there were any other pickup alternatives for his G&L Comanche. He was over the moon to learn we had a…