♛ sovereign - vintage 50's tone

Sovereign Humbucking Guitar Pickups.

Beautifully warm, jazzy sound when clean. A great gainy sound when pushed, all whilst retaining transparency, touch-sensitivity and dynamics. These are wound to low/medium output, they will never sound raucous or thin. In terms of output they're just right, like the originals were.

Our Sovereign Humbuckers come in two flavours and output levels: '57, Alnico II for softer treble and rich mids or '59, Alnico V, for that true '59 sound, with clarity and bite that's never shrill.

Sovereign Humbuckers are not wax potted.


♛ Sovereign '57 Alnico II

A modern take on a classic pickup

49.2mm Imperial string spacing.

AUD$429 for the HH set, or $225 each, add $49 for a pair of damped and fitted high quality German Nickel covers. (Prices in AUD)

DCR - Bridge 7.9K - Neck 7.6K

Alnico II rough cast bar magnets, Butyrate Bobbins. Nickel long-leg baseplates, 1018 slugs and Filister head screws. Maple spacer, genuine Gavitt® braided 2 wire connection. AWG42 Elektrisola coil wire. Coils are machine wound just like the originals. We use only high quality, thin and transparent German Nickel covers. Available in 2 wire connection. - Also available in metric 50/52mm.


Ricardo Espinha takes the Sovereign Humbucker set through their paces with a bit of top blues playing.

♛ Sovereign '57 Alnico II

Ricardo takes the Sovereign Humbucker set for a spin - with gain.


♛ Sovereign '59 Alnico V

Our take on a true "vintage correct" replica.

49.2mm Imperial string spacing.

AUD$429 for the HH set, or $225 each, add $49 for a pair of damped and fitted high quality German Nickel covers. (Prices in AUD)

DCR - Bridge 8-8.1K - Neck 7.4-7.6K

Alnico V rough cast bar magnets, Butyrate Bobbins. Nickel long-leg baseplates, 1018 slugs and Filister head screws. Maple spacer, genuine Gavitt® braided 2 wire connection. AWG42 Elektrisola coil wire. Coils are machine wound just like the originals. We use only high quality, thin and transparent German Nickel covers. Available in 2 wire connection. - Also available in metric 50/52mm.


Brett Kingman takes the Sovereign '59 Humbucker set through their paces.

♛ Sovereign '59 Alnico V

Brett Kingman takes the Sovereign Humbucker set for another spin.


T-Top

Most of 1970s rock n roll owes its sound to this pickup in one way or another. After rewinding original versions we were able to reproduce it in fine detail. Bridge and neck are identical. Alnico 5, polysol wire, nickel baseplate, butyrate bobbins, 1018 steel poles, same number of turns and turns per layer, same everything!

These beauties rawk like Ronson, cut like Angus and generally rock out with bite. Not shrill, but plenty of cut. They're articulate and versatile too.

AUD399 a set - (add $50 for a pair of high quality covers, fitted)

T-top-1

Silver Nickel covers (pictured)

T-top-2

49.2mm spaced available - 7.6K DC resistance

T-top-3

Gavitt braided 2 wire, comes with mounting screws and springs


Dimensions for mounting humbuckers are here  

For HSS sets, please visit the HSS page here


high output 80's-90's tone

neptune bridge humbucker - available for individual purchase - $225

This is a HSS demo, Brett gives the Neptune Bridge Humbucker a good work out! Enjoy!

Customers were asking us for this bridge pickup, so we have built on our Sovereign Humbucker design and developed a Bridge Humbucker that offers rich and powerful rock tones, right out of 1984. The Neptune humbucker has power, rich growly mids and retains sparkle. It's dynamic and responsive to volume control adjustments. Specs: ~ 14.4K, Alnico II (Degaussed) Sheffield, UK made rough cast bar magnet, 1215 steel Slugs and pole Screws, short-leg nickel baseplate. Hand-made in Australia by Ben Bailey, the Neptune Humbucker is available for individual purchase. Apply gain to taste.

Humbucker options - The Neptune Humbucker is available in 2 or 4 wire connection and 49.2, 50 or 52mm pole spacing. If you're building a tribute guitar, just let us know which pole spacing you prefer and we shall spin one up for you. Wax potted or unpotted available.

All of our pickups must be fitted with the supplied mounting hardware. If you have something special in mind for installation, please get in touch and we will see if we can help.