Wilkinson Vintage Classic Alnico 5 Overwound Open Style Bridge Humbucker Pickup for Electric Guitar, Black

Great budget pick up. Replaced the bridge pick up in my Squier sonic H telecaster. Very easy to install. And sounds better than I thought it would be. A much hotter pick up for sure.

These pickups look and sound great. Installed in a custom Les Paul style kit build with 4 pots that I chose to use the complicated "Jimmy Page" wiring/switching system for more than 20 different tone combinations, so I had to do modification on ground wire per below.NOTE - if you want to wire alternative switching or push/pull pots, these humbuckers (like many) are technically "4 wire" with north and south start/finish leads for each pickup, HOWEVER they use a grounding wire wrapped around the black wire like shielding (ie., ground on each pickup is part of the "North Start" wire), which is why the black wires are thicker and have their own shrink sleeve. The wiring diagram list the ground as being part of the N-Start black wire, but if you're a novice, it's not plainly stated for wiring purposes. IF you intend to wire guitars other than straight humbucking, many options require a SEPARATE ground wire (so in effect, you need 5 total separate wires including ground, not 4 with a common ground to one of those):After spending some time getting frustrated at not finding any websites/blogs that fully explained this situation on humbuckers like Wilkinsons, I then determined I could make these work pretty easily with my own modifications; if you have decent DIY and wiring skills, this is a pretty simple job that takes about 10-15m per pickup - buyer/user beware regarding warranties, etc.Instead of the common "wrapped ground", I had to create an independent ground wire (in effect, a total of 5 wires - 2 start/finish for each coil of humbucker, plus a 5th ground wire). Once I sorted all this out myself and examined the pickups, here's my steps (sorry, didn't take pics while doing this but marked up attached image):1). Remove 4 back plate screws on pickup, carefully remove plate. There will be a bit of wax but they came right apart without any issues/damage. You have to pull the common wire sleeve thru the hole in corner of plate.2). Once you've exposed the common wire for access, remove small shrink sleeve near end that was inside pickup and you will see where the wrap of bare grounding wire follows that black wire but then terminates in a wire tip soldered to the inside of backing plate to ground that shielding to the pickup (and on opposite end, that shielding is simple soldered as part of the black N-Start wire so they're "common")3). You have to separate that solder connection between the grounding wrap and back plate; you can leave the wrap in place with black wire (and I recommend that so you're not disturbing rest of common wire/sleeve unnecessarily) but make sure there is no connection between the plate, black wire and original ground wrap (so you are effectively disabling the wrap ground around black wire from inside end of wiring and thus even though the finish end of it remains attached to black "N-Start" wire, it's disabled). I used soldering tool to heat up and remove that wire tip, then tucked it right back into the common sleeve and added some new shrink tube to insulate and seal off.4). Add the new separate ground wire for the pickup - used same gauge wiring of right length matching rest of your wiring and solder new wire to the backing plate, right where the original shielding connection was soldered.5). Carefully reassemble pickup, including sliding main wire sleeve together with new ground wire thru the exit hole in backing plate (it will be tight), and then reinstall backing plate.6). You will end up with your reassembled Wilkinson looking exact same with main common wire containing 4 wires (yellow/red/white/black) plus a 5th new ground wire. Wire your pickups accordingly.

Used this on a TD Strat kit to replace ceramic Humbucker. Added a push-push volume pot and now have a one knob simple guitar with 2 different voices. Sounds great with either single or double coil.

Awesome pickup. Great for Metal.

This bridge pickup is AMAZING. Truly one of my favorite bridge pickups I've ever tried. For the price, it's the best bridge pickup for me, period. For reference all my other humbuckers in other guitars are Seymour Duncans. SH-4, SH-11, and Hyperion. This pickup is scalds, it's every bit, or hotter, than these other pickups, and it just screams and sounds amazing. Can play anything from Rush to Pantera. I truly love it. The only caveat is that the hot wire is really, really thin. It broke twice after I soldered it and then tried to stuff the cables into the cavity. I had to solder it in such a way that when I stuffed the cables it put no pressure on the cable itself.

Put these in a Les Paul style guitar, The neck pick up is smooth and buttery just as you would expect a vintage alnico humbucker to be. The bridge pick up I think might be a little too brassy , But a slight roll off of the tone knob fixed that..

Wilkinson is the Best bang for the buck I've seen. Did a whole Wilkinson upgrade to it and It made me actually like playing a cheap Dean Vendetta that was gifted to me. Brought it out of the mud.

Wow, these sound good! Made my new Strat build sound so good!