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Home : Electronics, pickups : Pickups: Guitar, electric : Golden Age Alnico 5 Single-coil Pickups

Vintage vibe, great price. Wake up your guitar!

Golden Age Alnico 5 Single-coil Pickups


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Inspired by legendary pickups of the '50s.
Golden Age single-coil pickups bring out the best in your guitar. The reviews say it all: "they really, really sing...great buy for the price." Wax-potted AWG42 coil windings and Alnico 5 staggered polepieces deliver vintage tone, optimum output at each position, balanced string response, and microphonic suppression. They're the real deal, for a lot less money.

Looking for extra punch? Our #5423 HOT model is specially wound to 7.6K ohms, for the bridge or neck position.

Bonus! Two covers (one black and one white) are supplied with each Golden Age single-coil pickup, for easy pickguard matching.

Save on complete neck/middle/bridge sets!

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Golden Age Alnico 5 Single-coil Pickups
 
  Item# Description In stock Price Quantity
5422 Bridge position Yes
$44.95

5421 Middle position Yes
$44.95

5420 Neck position Yes
$44.95

5423 HOT for neck or bridge position Yes
$44.95

5424 Set of 3 (#5420, 5421, 5422) SAVE $13.48 Yes
$121.37

5425 Set of 3 (#5420, 5421, 5423) SAVE $13.48 Yes
$121.37


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Golden Age single-coil pickups have vintage dimensions for easy installation in standard bodies, and two vintage-style fabric-insulated hookup wires. Polepieces have 2-1/16" spread. Mounting screws, rubber tubing and wiring diagrams are included.

The middle-position pickup is reverse wound, reverse polarity, for hum cancellation at the #2 and #4 switch positions.

Note: Each pickup has a copper shield surrounding the coil, a modern feature for 60-cycle hum suppression not found on vintage pickups. To play "naked" vintage-style, simply snip the small jumper wire that connects the foil to the pickup's ground lug.

Golden Age Alnico 5 single-coil pickups
Model Position Polarity Ohms
#5420 Neck South 6.0K
#5421 Middle North 6.0K
#5422 Bridge South 6.4K
#5423 HOT Neck/Bridge South 7.6K


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Golden Age Alnico 5 Single-coil Pickups
Golden Age Alnico 5 Single-coil Pickups
 
4.5 out of 5 stars
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5 10-23-2010
As for the humbucker !

Today I think it is a very good p.u.

Antonello  Trieste ITALY Read my reviews (5)
5 9-19-2010
ohhhhhh yeah

Bought the set...23 for the bridge, 21, and 20. Put them in a nice, old Mexi Strat that has a perfect feeling maple neck. I really liked the p.u.s before, but holy crap they really, really sing now. I can keep the tone high and get a really throaty tone with some overdrive, some nice, chimey 60's sounds, and an aggressive overdrive from the bridge. Really great buy for the price.

kurt  Portland, OR Read my reviews (3)
5 9-11-2010
This is "The One"

It's hard to describe what the 5423 will do, but I'll try. It will make your SOUL say YESSSSSSS.

mcbragg  Baltimore, MD Read my reviews (9)
5 8-15-2010
Great Sounding Pickup

I used the #5423 pickup on an old "Frankenstrat" project. It gave me exactly what I was looking for. The throaty chime was spot on. Oh I picked the "Hot" single coil for the neck position because I was using a Dimarzio X2N at the bridge. With a Jackson Model 3's "middle" at center, this is one "Hot" guitar. Thank God for Stewmac.

mcbragg  Baltimore, MD Read my reviews (9)
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