Magnetic/Electric Pickups

From the era of big hair and spandex, these screaming single coils are voiced for just about anything you throw at 'em.  Crystalline highs, shimmering chords and Jimi leads all from one pickup. This set includes the pickup, which has a 13"...

  Tone that's straight out of a juke joint.  Primal and unrefined... without the hum. Fully-potted cigar box guitar humbuckers, gnashing out a powerfully hot 9.22 k through Alnico magnets.  DeltaBuckers deliver gloriously trashy tones...

These are beautiful vintage-style soap bar pickups with the classic "dog ear" design for easy mounting. Choose beautiful shiny chrome or gold finishes (plated steel) or go with the classic cream/ivory (plastic) option. Mounting screws are included...

This is a single black "rail style" humbucker pickup, with ferrite magnets and rated at 9.3KOhms of impedance. This is the style of pickup featured in Shane Speal's GuitarWorld.com article on his homemade lap steel guitar. Pop one of these in your...

Here is a classy, inexpensive little pickup for your cigar box guitar or other special build, featuring a "dual-blade" design. Best of all, it's a humbucking dual-coil pickup fit into a single-coil-sized body! These are hot pickups that spec out at...

These pickups could be straight out of an inventor's barn in the 1940's. If the cigar box guitar was originally meant to be electrified, these would have been the pickups to do it. Consider them modern-vintage or an alternate universe time capsule where...

These low-profile mini humbuckers have amazing tone and are perfect for cigar box guitars. Originally designed for jazz semi-hollow body archtop guitars, Juke Shake Pickups are an easy-mount solution for cigar box guitars.   Built around an...

Here is a awesome retro-looking magnetic pickup for your cigar box guitar or other special build. This one is part of our "Pawn Shop" series of pickups, all of which have the look and feel of stuff you might see in old guitars hanging on the wall of a...

Choose your color, grab your soldering iron and let's get wiring! This DIY wiring kit contains all of the parts and know-how you need to solder up a full cigar box guitar pickup harness using one of our extremely popular "Snake Oil" mini humbucker...

Shane Speal, the King of the Cigar Box Guitar, says "These are my favorite pickups... bar none! They're the perfect mix of smooth 'molasses' blues tones of a humbucker and mean 'snarl' of a single coil." Choose either Chrome, Gold or the exclusive "Black...

These vintage-style "soap bar" single-coil pickups are great for both new and repair work on electric guitars, and also work great for cigar box guitars! They are made to look and sound like the vintage "P90" pickup style that has been popular for...

Here's a quick and easy "drop-in" option to electrify your next build... that and its chrome/silver color is why we call it the Quicksilver. This is a single-coil pickup with an impedance of around 7.5KOhm, pre-mounted in an aluminum plate that makes...