Blog — Humbuckers

Art Stimson has been an obscure footnote in guitar history. We unearth family history and details around his life that bring to light a remarkable musician and unique history of the inventor of electric guitar pickups.

Devin Symanski, a friendly Canadian, bought one our Missing Link ++ pickups and was kind enough to post of demo of it on his YouTube channel. We thought he did a great job summarizing the benefits of the ML++ and thought we'd share. Thanks, Devin, great work! 

Missing Link pickups combine the best characteristics and design approaches of single coils and humbuckers. We’re going to give you the deep dive into why regular humbuckers just can’t conjure up the tones of our Missing Link pickups.

We sit down and ask Brad Perry, our groovy pickup dude, what got him started winding pickups. Which is where our little adventure began.  How did you get started winding pickups?I started winding pickups because I wasn’t finding what I was looking from the current offerings other winders had available. It wasn’t that existing pickup builders were lacking in quality, but I was looking for something more particular than they offered. Specifically, I wanted a Strat neck pickup tone that fit in a humbucker route and cancelled hum. Winding pickups to already established norms wasn’t too hard, but I quickly...