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JULY, 2025

MAJOR COMMERCIAL WINDERS

The biggest and most known winders today. Hand and machine wound. Prices in all ranges usually due to high selection

Seymour Duncan (Started as a one man operation. Today, the most known winder there is with maintained integrity) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Dimarzio (Most profiled within rock, but caters to anything really. Still doing quality stuff for affordable prices) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Fender (Fenders own in-house pickups. Been winding pickups since the 50´s) ★★ / ★★★★ 🇺🇸 /🇲🇽

Gibson (Official Gibson Humbuckers and LP pups ) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

EMG (Another metal players choice since 1975. Famous for their active pickups) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Bare Knuckle (UK based. A boutique winder gone huge in later years and ships worldwide) ★★★★★ 🇬🇧

Lace Music (Noiseless pickups only. Came stock in some Fender models in 1985-1996) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Lollar Pickups (A firm favorite by many.. became famous for P-90s and the Imperial Humbuckers) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Fishman (Mostly known for acoustic systems, But did well with Fluence models) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Suhr (John Suhr has done major stuff with his guitars. Try his pickups as well) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

HIGH END POPULAR BOUTIQUE

Highly regarded, always in demand. One-Man operations or smaller staffed workshops risen from humble beginnings


Don Mare (Don specialises in 50´s sounding Tele & Strat .Semi Retired. Post a few sets on Reverb now and then) ★★★★★  🇺🇸 🏆

Ron Ellis (Holy Grail pups for the price. Ron tests his pickups and every part he is supplied in a lab ) ★★★★★★  🇺🇸🏆

Tom Holmes Co. (Nashville based. One of them highly esteemed winders of our times. Call for order) ★★★★★  🇺🇸🏆

J.M Rolph (Top grade. Please set off an whole evening on the phone if you call to order😄) ★★★★  

Kinman Pickups (King of Noise and Hum free PU´s. Chris Kinman takes his creation seriously.) ★★★★★     🇦🇺/🇵🇭

O.C Duff (Owen Duffy has been winding Single-coils for 20 years. A well known in the guitar circuits) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Cream T Pickups (Associated with ZZ Top, Beck etc. Grew out of Norway from a garage in Oslo) ★★★★★ 🇬🇧

Lindy Fralin (Highly respected and knowledgeable winder. Top service) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

TV Jones (World famous Filteron maker. Brian Seltzer loves them, Fender has even used them) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Van Zandt Pickups (Texas based. W. L. Van Zandt passed away in 1997. His family continues his legacy)★★★★ 🇺🇸

Throbak (Pedal, strings and outrageous priced Pickups.) ★★★★★★ 🇺🇸

SMALLER BOUTIQUE

Home winders or small shops, known and unknowns, cheap or costly..


8 Bomb Custom (PAF winder. Based in Belarus. Exclusively high price PAF Clones) ★★★★★★ 🇧🇾

Aero Instruments Pickups (Specialised in Bass pickups) 🇺🇸

Alan Entwistle Pickups (He sells very cheap pickup that smells asian made. But very different pickups)  🇷🇺

Alexander Pribora (He sells both economy and premium pickup, he moved to Kazakstahn. Site is down.) ★★ /★★★★ 🇷🇺

Alegree Pickups (British winder from Surrey UK with a good selection) ★★★ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Auburn Electric Instruments (Indiana based. Just starting up.) 🇺🇸

Amalfitano Pickups (Winds for a few celebs. Has all types) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Amber Pickups (Amber is Wolfgang Damm who invented the P94 Pickup. German site only) ★★★★★★ 🇩🇪

Angeltone Pickups (Wisconsin based. Pickups made on old winding machines) ★★★★  🇺🇸

Antonio Di Gregorio (Seems to only operate his business by FB. acoustic and electric) ? 🇺🇸

Arcane Inc. (Winds all sorts of pickups) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Armstrong Pickups (Kent Armstrongs son Dan runs this) ★★★ 🇬🇧

Artec Sounds (Pickup supplier that winds for Tonerider and GFS. Only supply dealers) ★★ 🇰🇷

Arty's Custom Guitar (Austrian winder. Winds batches for sale periodically) ★★★★★ 🇦🇹

Azure Guitars (An icelandic winder living in Norway. Reachable on IG / FINN) ★★★★ 🇳🇴

Benson Custom (Good economical pickups for $39 each) ★★ 🇺🇸

BG Pickups (Brian Gunsher winds decent priced pickups from the Colorado Mountains)  ★★★★  🇺🇸

Blackstock Pickups (This is YouTuber Phillip McNight's windery business. small selection of all sorts for now) ★★★★  🇺🇸

Bothmann's Pickups (Danish. Offers Telecasters, but no Strat pickups. His prices are pretty low.. Danish only.) 🇩🇰★★

Bootleg Guitars (Small selection. Crazy prices) ★★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Bootstrap Pickups (Very affordable and excellent quality. High in demand and superb Customer service) 🇺🇸

Boutique Pickups (Peter Florance legacy lives on. PUs made on his old tools and machines by his protegé) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Brandonwound Pickups (Versatile Pickups and decent priced Single coils. run by two guys) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Brierly Guitar Pickups (Australian winder) ★★★  🇦🇺

Bulldog Pickups (All sorts of low-priced pickups) ★★★ 🇬🇧

Burns London (Mostly pickups for their own guitars but knock yourself out and try and email them) ★★★ 🇬🇧

Buzztone Guitars (American winder of PAF pickups only)  ★★★★  🇺🇸

BYOGuitar (New Hampshire based retailer with their own pickup line with affordable prices) ★★ 🇺🇸

CJ.Lab Pickups (Their ST-pickups are machine wound.) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Catwhisker Pickups (Long time UK winder with economy based pups.. Meow!) ★★★ 🇬🇧

Cavalier Pickups (Rob DiStefano is a legend pickup maker. He makes Tele pickups exclusively for ok price) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Cetera Pickups (Swizz base winder for OK price.) ★★★ 🇨🇭

Cecca Pickups (French winders with a very small (one set model) selection) ★★★★ 🇪🇬

Coils Boutique (German small shop. All styles with HSH and HSS sets) ★★★★  🇩🇪

CMDaugherty Handwound (Texas based winder that does tasty 50¨s and 60´s pickup with relic too) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Colmax Pickups (Canadian winders. HB and Single-coil.) ★★★★ 🇨🇦

Corsa Guitars (Tiny selection of humbuckers) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Curtis Novak (Small team from Cali and fairly well known. with a wide range of styles including MOSRITE) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Customy Pickups (Brazilian winder that only takes order trough Whatsapp? strange tactics) ★★★★ 🇧🇷

Darkmoon NYC (Fair price sets from these winders, but where is the Buynow button?) ★★★ 🇺🇸

David Barfuss (German winder of several styles, but with a bad website) ★★★★ 🇩🇪

David Allen Pickups (Lot of debate where these are wound these days. Some say US, Some say Asia) ★★★★ 🇺🇸 

Dawgtown Custom Shop (Unknown winder from US. Sells on Reverb. Throw him a bone. ) 🇺🇸

Deacci Pickups (Irish winders. Does only sells you pickup if you visit their shop for instore fitting only) ★★★★ 🇮🇪

De Lisle Guitar Co. (Cozy amp, pedal and pickup winder company. Design your own pups) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

DeTemple Guitars (One man army luthier and winder) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

DS Pickups (Argentinian winders. Does not sell online. Distributes to other shops) ★★★ 🇦🇷

DGN Custom Guitars (Primarily a effects pedal builder, but offers some pickups too) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Dolezal’s Boutique (Croatian. Refurbish & rewinds old pickups along with new ones. Prices vary therefore) ★★★ / ★★★★★ 🇭🇷

Dominger Pickups (Decent priced made by rockin' couple. Sold trough ETSY) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Dommenget Guitars (German based luthier and winder of PAFs. His site is outdated) 🇩🇪 

Donovan Pickups New winder from US. Website shows HB only but lets see if he expands. 🇺🇸 ★★★

Dragonfire Pickups (Active pickups on the cheap. EMG on budget if you may? Asian made pickups) 🇺🇸 ★★

Dronski Pickups (Chezh Republic based. Facebook only)? 🇨🇿

Doyle Coils (Clone winder of PAFs and Humbuckers. Expensive) ★★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Duneland Labs (Humbuckers only. Does wind for a few profiled musicians) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Dylan Pickups (Youtuber Dylan Talks Tone. Fame comes with a price) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Edmire Pickups (Norwegian winder. Website is forever under construction. Try his FB) ? 🇳🇴

Eastgrove Pickups (Peter is NYC based with super affordable pickups. FB Based and sells on Ebay and Reverb) ★★ / ★★★🇺🇸

E-Dis Pickups (Croatian maker. Order and prices by e-mail only) ? 🇭🇷

Eternal Guitars (Luthier and winders with option of relicing) ★★★★★ 🇬🇧

Euphony Pickups (Polish makers, They have reasonable relic PU covers and knobs) ★★★★ 🇵🇱

FatPups (Small but good & cheap selection for Strat and Tele.) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Fleor/Oripure (Both are economy inhouse brand of IKN Music in China. Supposedly good sounding)  /★★ 🇨🇳

Fletcher Pickups (Median priced pickups from Ben. Based in Birmingham, England) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

Flametone Pickups (Italian saqmaker of pricey clones. Good quality aging of his producs. Price on aggreement) ★★★★  🇮🇹

Fred Stuart Guitars (Well known luthier, makes pricey pickups too) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Foothill Pickups (They wind pickups AND they fix your swimming pool. Ask for package deal! 😄 Seems inactive ) 🇺🇸

Fokin Pickups (In  mother Russia, the pickups winds you. Fokin´cheap pickups)★★ 🇷🇺

Gas Pickups (Greek winder with pricery stuff. Very informative about his pickups. Plenty of read in there) ★★★★★ 🇬🇷

Gemini Pickups (Wales based since 2006) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

General Vintage Tone (They make both affordable and outrageously expensive pickups) ★★★  / ★★★★★★ 🇪🇸

Genesis Pickups (Website closed, sells only trough Reverb now. Signature Strat pups only FB) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

GFS Guitar Fetish (Well known seller with pickups for under $20 each. Wound by Artec in Korea but with quality control) 🇺🇸

Ghost Winders (These guys only sell in bulk of 10 set or more to Luthiers/ builders. Check Ebay/Reverb for used) 🇺🇸

Good Land Pickups (Winder from Grafton Wisconsin that winds very affordable pickups in most ranges) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Good Tone Pickups (Swizz made.For Strat, Tele, Bass + Humbucker.) ★★★★★  🇨🇭

Grinning Dog Pickups (Japanese One-Man operation. For orderTry his FB) ★★★★★ 🇯🇵

Guitar Madness (Super affordable pickups out of east coast US. I refuse to believe these are handwound.) 🇺🇸

Guitarish (Viggo is based in Bergen Norway. Small little shop that winds all sorts) ★★★ 🇳🇴

H20 Pickups (Bass & Pickups & custom winder. doin it for 20 years. out of North Carolina) ★★★★★  🇺🇸 

Hanson Pickups (Chicago based. Website is horribly outdated. Order by contact only)  🇺🇸

Harmonic Design (90´s Website. All sorts of pickups) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Hatters Pickup (British dapper gents who winds single coils. No info on price. Winds and then Sells on Ebay) 🇬🇧

Häussel Pickups (German based. Website German only) ★★★★★ 🇩🇪

Hepcat Pickups (Handwound expensive sets. French site only) ★★★★★ 🇫🇷

High Order Pickups (90´s website. Order by Email only) ★★★★  🇺🇸

Hoagland Custom (Mostly known for harnesses, but sells complete guards only. And is not to bad price) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Holly’s Handwound (Sarah Marie is the only Female boutique winder on this list. Only sell on Ebay since 2007) ★★★★  🇺🇸

Homewrecker Pickups (L.A based. Only Humbuckers and Bass pickups) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

House Of Tones (Guitar Magazine voted these fellas for making the best PAF replicas.) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

IronGear Pickups (The British equivalent to Bootstraps. Very cheap, hands wound sets ) ★★ 🇬🇧

I-Spiria (Italian. Basically for Italian since his site is in Italian only. No prices to be seen) 🇮🇹

IUSO Pickups (Italian winder with broad selection of Bass and Electrics.) ★★ 🇮🇹

Ironstone Pickups (Ok budget pickups from UK.) ★★★  🇬🇧

Jalen Guitar (Likes to do buckers. But does single coil on custom order. Sells on Reverb and Ebay) ★★★  🇺🇸

Jess Loureiro (Fair priced sets. Website gone but sells trough Guitars Exchange. Also on IG)  ★★★ 🇪🇸

Jim Wagner Pickups (Main biz is PAFs and Buckers.) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Joe Barden (Joe Barden himself has since retired, but JBE is still running under new management) ★★★★★  🇺🇸

Joe Kyser Customs New Jersey seller on Ebay who has handwound pickups for very cheap price. ★★ 🇺🇸

Joel Byron (Want a certain sound? Joel knows. You can only reach him on phone (706) 372-4972) 🇺🇸

JJ's Guitar Pickups (Aussies that winds some nice pup) ★★★★ 🇦🇺

J. S Moore Custom (90´s website again. Fairly priced pickups) ★★★ 🇺🇸

K-Line Guitars (Fender model guitar builder. And off course pickups....) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

K&T Modern Vintage Guitar (Jun Takano spins fine pickups in his shop. Are the prices real?) ★★★★★ 🇯🇵

Kent Armstrong Handwounds (Kent owns WD music. Offer a selection of pickups) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

Kinsley Custom Guitar (Wyoming based winder. Reverb Only Unknown status) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Kloppman Electrics (German winder with tall price range) ★★★★★★ 🇩🇪

Kiyst Pickups (Back in action. Handwound for under $100 for a Strat Set. Based in Virginia ★★ 🇺🇸

Lawing Musical Prod / Zexcoil (A lesser known challenger in the hum-free department from Dr. Lawing) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Leddin Vintage Guitars (They offer mostly parts, lots, bulk of vintage stuff and rewound vintage Pickups) ★★★★ 🇦🇺 

LeoSounds (German based winder, all styles with nice prices. Finally a economic german winder)  ★★★ 🇩🇪

Lukérwind (Based in Wales UK. Mostly single coils and Fender style.. Variable but OK prices on Ebay) ★★★  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Lundgren Guitar Pickups (Swedish high-end winds. All types, all era's) ★★★★ 🇸🇪

Luther Lee Pickups (New Jersey based. Makes for Strat, Tele, LP and does P90´s. Also repairs and do rewinds.) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

M.P Pickups (Italian site.. Classic style pickups and not so bad priced either. ) ★★★ 🇮🇹

Malagoli Pickups (Brazillian. Good selection and good prices) ★★★★ 🇧🇷

Madhouse Designs (order on FB only. On & off winder due to health issues) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Magnetics Pickups (Based in Rome.. They make some incredibly pricey pickups ($570 for a set) ★★★★★★ 🇮🇹

Mama Pickups (Italian winder for all sorts. Also bass pickups. They also do custom work 🤌) ★★★★★ 🇮🇹

Manlius Guitar (N.Y based small operation winders) ★★★★  🇺🇸

Manson Pickups Formerly known as Psychopaf. He makes Humbucker style pickups only. ★★★★ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Mark Foley (Great stuff from UK. Now has a new website.. Also makes repro hardware) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

Masa Handmade (Sells on Ebay. Korean made Fender copies with hillarious descriptions. But they are decent pickups) 🇰🇷

Mason Electrics (Norwegian winder and electric service man. High reputation in Norway) 🇳🇴

McPherson Music (New Zealand based. They sell humbuckers only, some acoustic systems. No single coils ★★★★★ 🇳🇿

McCon-O-Wah (Previously Bell Tone Pickups. Baltimore winder and Wah-makers) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

MIE Music (Jobe Jude is a musician outta Colombus Ohio who winds pickups on the side. Sells on Ebay & Reverb) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

McNelly Pickups (Canada based. Several types with about 10 weeks leadtime) ★★★★  🇨🇦

Migas Touch Pickups (US based with nice spun and numbered pickups. Nice price. Ships US Only) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

MJS Customs (Canadian winder, order by email/forms only) ★★★  🇨🇦

Mojo Gear (Bulgarian pedal maker and pickup winders)  ★★★ 🇧🇬

Mojo Pickups (Like GVT, offer cheap and NOS pickups) ★★★  / ★★★★★ 🇬🇧

Mojotone (Large business: Amps, pedals etc, but they make pickups too) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Monstertone Pickups (Owned by Schecter now. Probably asian made) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Montances Guitars (Based in the Phillipines. Sells both handwound and Machine wound) 🇵🇭   / ★★★

Montreux Guitars (Infamous Japanese parts maker and relic. Distrubutes wide. Offering vintage wound pickups) ★★★★ 🇯🇵

Moondot Music (Irish luthier, also makes pickups) ★★★★  🇮🇪

Monty’s Guitars (Matt was a apprentice of Charlie Chandler. Famous for his Danish Pete Signature PU.s) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

Motor City Pickups (all sorts for all player. based in Detroit) ★★★★★  🇺🇸

Musiclily (China based parts vendor with their own budget pickups. Find them on Amazon)    🇨🇳

Murray Guitars (Adelaide winder since 2020) ★★★★  🇦🇺

Mr. Fabulous Guitars (Austraiian vendor from Heathmont who winds his own pickups. Also on Reverb.) ★★★★  🇦🇺

Mr. Glyns Pickups (New Zealand Winder. Only i know of. Fair priced too) ★★★  🇦🇺

Nick Silver Pickups (Based in Greece. Small but verstatile collection. Pricey tho) ★★★★★ 🇬🇷

Nine One Six Pickups (Sacramento based. Very custom stuff) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Nordstrand Audio (Small selection for median prices) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Nothern Pickups (Huddersfield based. Decent priced. PAF´s, Strat, Tele and Bass) ★★★ 🇬🇧

NOwaxx Pickups (German based, all styles handwound but can be pricey) ★★★★ / ★★★★★  🇩🇪 

ODEZZA Handwound Pickups (Kansas based winder, not Polish. Does custom designs if you looking) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Oil City Pickups (Greasy pickups for slick prices) ★★★ 🇬🇧

Old Bones Pickups (Suffolk based. one-man operated windery) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

Onamac Windery (Fair priced. Good selection. the choice of Whitfill Guitars) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Ormsby Guitars (Primarily a luthier with emphasis on metal shredders, Therefore only HB pickups) / ★★ 🇦🇺 

OX4 Pickups (British winder with a small selection) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

Palatine Pickups (German winder with nice prices. Also offers one-off prototypes. New Site) ★★★  🇩🇪

Pariah Pickups (Small selection of buckers and one set of Single coil based in Detroit.)  ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Paul Reed Smith (Needs no introduction really. Humbuckers only) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Pete Biltoft / Vintage Vibe (Fairly unknown. But makes all styles. Outdated Site) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Pete Flynn (From Wisconsin you get Excelent PAFs. But he also do single coils. Not cheap but highly rated)  ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Perthshire Guitar Service (A dutch luthier based in Scotland.  He can wind you pickups as well. ) ★★★★ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Pickup Winders (Sells only flatwork, magnets and other PU parts only. But no info where they send from)

Pickupmakers (Italian winders. Site is in Italian only) ★★★ 🇮🇹

Planet Tone Pickup Co. (Based in Denver. Good customisable selection and low prices) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Porter Pickups (Idaho based. Good website, all sorts of pups and OK prices) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Q-Pickups (Croatia based. Sells mostly on Reverb now. Experiments and do one-offs as well) ★★★ / ★★★★  🇭🇷

Q-Tuner Pickups (Unique futuristic designs from these guys) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

R.M.Pickups (Chezh Republic winder for nice price. Not sure if handmade)  ★★ 🇨🇿

RS Guitarworks (They sell parts, necks and all that. But also have their own pickups.) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Raw Vintage (Raw Vintage is part of Exotic Guitars. Also known for their trem springs and saddles too) ★★★★  🇺🇸

RebelRelic Guitars They have a thing for relic stuff. Spins their own small selection of vintage pickups ★★★★ 🇳🇱

Redding Street Pickups (more known as Ckuz Pickups. Decent prices) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Red Rock Pickups (Do all kinds. But seem to specialize in P90. They dont have a website.  FB and Reverb only) ? 🇺🇸

Reilander Custom (Canadian winder you can find him on Instagram ) ★★★ 🇨🇦

Reverend Guitar (Known for parts, guitars and pickups)★★★ 🇺🇸

ReWind Pickups (Offering vintage wound pups for grand dollars) ★★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Radioshop Pickups (Wide selection. All sets can be pre-wired for you.) ★★★★★ 🇬🇧

Railhammer (Metal heads Based in Ohio, pickups are made in South Korea with tight control on specs and quality parts.) ★★★

Revel Custom Pickups (Great selection for fair prices. Easy to navigate site) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Rio Grande Pickups (Texas for sure. Wide selection with various price range) ★★★★ /  ★★★★★  🇺🇸

Rocketfire Pickups (Small selection. Can be found in Danocaster guitars) ★★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Ron Kirn (Ron makes excellent guitars. He also winds for his own creations only. But Shoot him an email and ask.) 🇺🇸

Romain Pickups Handwound pickups from Ontario.★★★ 🇨🇦

Roswell Pickups (Believe these have something to do with Wilkinson. Formerly known as WSC. Asian made) ★★ / ★★★

Rumpelstiltskin Pickups (His pickups scream expensive. But they are actually quite fair priced) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Sanford Magnetics (Humbuckers and P90´s only at acceptable prices) ★★★ 🇨🇦

SB Pickups (Spencer is a fresh winder of Strat PUs  on the scene. Website coming. Does Email for the time being ) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Sentell Pickups (All sorts, rewind service. But can custom build any weird stuff for you) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Shed Pickups (Back again from a long hiatus. All sorts based in Cardiff UK) ★★★★★ 🇬🇧

Sheptone (Humbucker specialists, Keep in mind: Jeff Sheppard has sold this company. Now under new management) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Sigil Pickups (Canadian hand wounds. High cost) ★★★★★ 🇨🇦

Sin Pickups Chris Carter has been a on/off winder for a while out from NC. He makes very reasonaboe pickups .🇺🇸 ★★★

Silverhand Pickups (Standard priced pups. Good tidy website) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Sliders Pickups (Loads of talk about vintage correctness. But how do you buy?) 🇦🇺

SK Guitar Pickups (This guy does not do vintage style stuff. He makes a pickup suited for YOUR Needs) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

SKG Custom (SKG is a Polish luthier of guitars who offer a small selection of expensive PU on Reverb) ★★★★★★  🇵🇱

Skywood Pickups (Excellent value for you. Straight from California. Reverb Only) ★★ 🇺🇸

SP Custom Pickups (French winder of all sorts) ★★★★ 🇫🇷

Space Llama Pickups (Arizona based winder with a small selection of pickups.) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Spirit Pickups (North East UK. Alan Dingwall winds in demand stuff. Strat, Tele and PAF. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Sonny’s Custom Shop (Fair priced sets for Strat and Gibsons) ★★★ 🇺🇸

SoulTone Pickups (Good prices and wide selection) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Soulshine Pickups (Dutch winder. Fairly priced) ★★★★ 🇳🇱

Sublime Pickups (Budapest based with cool graphical custom Pickup covers. FB only) 🇭🇺

Stephens Design (slightly outdated website, custom pups for a price) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Stew Mac (Their Golden Age pickups are gone. No more economic pickups from SM anymore) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Stonewall Pickups (Nice selection of handwound stuff but pricey) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Sunday Handwound (Jazzmaster and Strat /Tele for good prices) ★★★ 🇺🇸

The Buzztone (Winds only PAF pickups) ★★★ 🇺🇸

T.K. Smith (Luthier with a small selection of non-traditional pickups) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Tesla Pickups (Asian pickup production. Machine wound but some handwound. For any stringed instruments) ★★

TexasWound Boutique (Lonestar State winder. Standard priced pickups) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Theo Dahlem Pickups (FB only, Custom pickups and restoration with analysis involved) ★★★★ 🇩🇪

The Creamery (Justin makes fine English pickups) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

The Little Guitar Shop (Brummie shop that winds pups too) ★★★★ 🇬🇧

Tiki-Man Guitar Pickups (Seem to operate only from FB. Winder from Ozark Missouri) 🇺🇸

Toltec Pickups (Leeds UK. Seems to have good prices on his pickups) ★★ 🇬🇧

Tone Emporium (Reasonable pickup sets from Canada. Asian made) ★★ 🇨🇦

Tone Hatch (Hand wound and super affordable pups from Nebraska) ★★ 🇺🇸

Tone Specific Guitar Co. (Run by three guys. Famously known to be behind the fictional Virgil Arlo name) ★★★★★★ 🇺🇸

Tonerider (Popular company. Their pickups are wound in Korea by Artec but with quality components) ★★ 🇬🇧

Tom Anderson (Mostly known for his guitars, but he makes pickups to sell too) ★★★★  🇺🇸

Tom Brantley Rewinds (Geddy Lee’s repair man. Sells pickups too) ★★★ / ★★★★ 🇨🇦

Timpson / TDM Pickups (Pickups not listed at the site. Shoot them an email) 🇺🇸

Tornade MS Pickups (french winder. Signature sets and such. Costly)  ★★★★★ 🇪🇬

Trakhmann Pickups (Russian. Seems like a distributor only. No option to buy online from them) 🇷🇺

Tuma Pickups (Czech Republic. Deals on FB Only) 🇨🇿

Tyson Tone Lab (Loves Bucker and P90´s, only one set of Strat Singlecoil) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Ubertar Hexaphonic Pickups (No idea what he is selling, but it looks funky and experimental) ★★★★ ?

Valenti Guitars (Luthier that also do pickups for you.) 🇫🇷

Vanson Guitars (Affordable asian produced pickup sets for just $50. Also cheap parts.) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Vaughn Skow (Nashville based. Tele and PRS pickup upgrades) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Vineham Pickups (Well know winder with excellent prices) ★★★ 🇨🇦

Vuorensaku Guitars (Luthier from Finland, Billy Gibbons bought one of his axes. Also makes pickups) 🇫🇮

Waaah Pickups (Cheap pickups on AliExpress with scary good details. Will try these one day.) 🇨🇳

Warman Guitars (British design / Eastern made. But check "The Bunker" for one-off experimental pickups)  ★★ 🇬🇧

Wilde / Bill Lawrence (Bill Lawrence ✝︎ was an engineer legend. Run by his family now) ★★★ 🇺🇸

Wiggins Brand (William Wiggins has been winding since late 1990's..Wood bobbin :) ★★★  🇺🇸

Wilkinson (Most famous for bridge assemblies. But makes cheap asian made budget pups too) /   ★★

Widdershins Pickups (Canadian winder of colorful humbuckers and P90’s) ★★★ 🇨🇦

Wizz Pickups (Croatian winder who clone artists P.A.F´s only and sells them for crazy prices) ★★★★★★ 🇭🇷

Wolfetone Pickups (Seattle based winder since 1998) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

Zhangbucker (Not just 'buckers but all kinds) ★★★★★ 🇺🇸

ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS

These makers specialize entirely or mostly on amplication for acoustic gutirars


Dean Markley (Most known for strings. But has a tiny selection of pickups too) ★★ 

Fishman (Already listed, but you find Fishman systems pre-mounted on thousands of acoustic guitars then and now) ★★★ 🇺🇸

L.R. Baggs (Fantastic systems. The professionals choice) ★★★★ 🇺🇸

DeArmond (Old pickup maker. For Accoustic and Archtops only) ★★★ 🇺🇸

K&K Sound (Born in Germany, but moved to Oregon USA in 1995.. Whatever you can beat a stick at, K&K can mic it. ★★★★ 🇺🇸

KNA Pickups (For any accoustic string instruments) ★★ 🇺🇸

Schatten Design (Wide range pickups for any acoustic stringed instruments) ★★★ / ★★★★🇨🇦

Schertler (Swizz company making tranducer pickups for several accoustic string instruments) ??? 🇨🇭

Shadow Electronics (They have plenty of system for anything acoustic systems.) 🇺🇸★★★

Surdo Pickups (italian made mics. Blogspot page) ? 🇮🇹

Submarine Pickups (British unique pickup maker for not only acoustic but any steel stringer) ★★ 🇬🇧

Sunrise Pickups (Jim Kaufman makes high-end acoustic pickup systems). Used by Keith Richarde etc ★★★★★

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