Belcat pickups?

[PunkKitty]

I'm looking at a 14k alnico humbucker on Bezdez for $20 shipped. I found a video on YouTube that sounded pretty good. I'm guessing that these are similar to generic Artecs? It would be the sole pickup in a FA Sheena and would be set up with series/parallel.

The other option that I'm considering is a Carvin M22T. But I really don't want to spend $45 on a pickup for a guitar that cost $50 new. But otoh, it really is a great guitar.

Does anyone know anything about these?

I'm also open to other (used) ideas. So if you have something, send me a PM.

 

[Mark Wein]

I've never heard of them....I have a used Duncan Trembucker Custom sitting around if you're interested.

 

[Bob411]

Sorry that's the first I've herd of them. 20 bucks shipped is hard to beat. If you try them let me know, I'm always looking for a bargain.

If you want to spend a little more, I had real good luck with these, http://www.wilburncustomshop.com/Parts/humbuckers.html , and they go along with the "heritage" of the guitar. :cheese:

You could also try Ebay for Seymour Duncan, and the other more expensive pickups. Sometimes on a Monday morning, you will find somebody listed to late, so they missed ending on the weekend, then nobody bids on them, and you can scoop them up cheap.

 

[PunkKitty]

Bob, I'm sure the Kent Armstrongs at Wilburn are nice. But for that price I'll buy a Carvin M22T. It's $34.99 + 9.50 shipping. It's not a bad deal, I'm just unemployed and cheap.

 

[PunkKitty]

I ended up trading a DanO Transparent Overdrive for a DiMarzio Air Norton and D Sonic. I wasn't using the overdrive. I couldn't adapt to the knobs on the front instead of the top. I'll probably resell the D Sonic. I'm not a big fan of high output pickups. But the Air Norton sounds perfect for my purposes.

 

[Mark Wein]

I ended up trading a DanO Transparent Overdrive for a DiMarzio Air Norton and D Sonic. I wasn't using the overdrive. I couldn't adapt to the knobs on the front instead of the top. I'll probably resell the D Sonic. I'm not a big fan of high output pickups. But the Air Norton sounds perfect for my purposes.

thats a screaming deal. that pedal isn't worth all that much (I just sold mine )

 

[ellengtrgrl]

I ended up trading a DanO Transparent Overdrive for a DiMarzio Air Norton and D Sonic. I wasn't using the overdrive. I couldn't adapt to the knobs on the front instead of the top. I'll probably resell the D Sonic. I'm not a big fan of high output pickups. But the Air Norton sounds perfect for my purposes.

The D-Sonic is pretty popular with the 7-string set. F.Y.I. - the Air Norton can sound a little bright for a humbucker, as favor to the non-gigging brother of the bass player in one of my bands, I gave his LP Studio loaded with Air Nortons a workout onstage. It was pretty good sounding, but definitely brighter than the Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion, that was my main axe at the time.

Where'd you pull the deal off - Music Go Round? It sounds like that kind of deal.

 

[PunkKitty]

The D-Sonic is pretty popular with the 7-string set. F.Y.I. - the Air Norton can sound a little bright for a humbucker, as favor to the non-gigging brother of the bass player in one of my bands, I gave his LP Studio loaded with Air Nortons a workout onstage. It was pretty good sounding, but definitely brighter than the Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion, that was my main axe at the time.

Where'd you pull the deal off - Music Go Round? It sounds like that kind of deal.

Actually it was a trade with someone on HC. And today the guy that usually does my rewinds and custom winding got back to me. He was on vacation for the last 2 weeks. He'll rewind a A5 Yamaha HB that I have in my parts drawer to my specs for a very good price. I know and trust his work. So the DiMarzios will probably end up on ebay.

 

[ellengtrgrl]

Actually it was a trade with someone on HC. And today the guy that usually does my rewinds and custom winding got back to me. He was on vacation for the last 2 weeks. He'll rewind a A5 Yamaha HB that I have in my parts drawer to my specs for a very good price. I know and trust his work. So the DiMarzios will probably end up on ebay.

That's probably a better choice IMO. You don't seem like quite the metalhead I am Monica, which rules out the D-Sonic, and you might find the Air Norton to be a bit bright sounding in the Sheena.

 

[PunkKitty]

That's probably a better choice IMO. You don't seem like quite the metalhead I am Monica, which rules out the D-Sonic, and you might find the Air Norton to be a bit bright sounding in the Sheena.

I agree. I currently have one of the custom wounds in the Sheena and it sounds great. But I don't want to break up the set of them. The stray alnico humbucker that someone gave me is a great option. I just wanted to be able to split the coils or run it with series/parallel. I'll be able to do that after the rewind. I'm definitely not a metalhead. More often then not I play clean and don't use a pick.