Distortion is easy!  Clean is hard!

Whitaker guitar pickups are handmade in the USA by Ray Whitaker.  Glitterbomb pickups are a hum-cancelling single coil design that is only 1/4" thick and 1 7/8" X 2" wide.  Designed specifically for 3 or 4 string cigar box guitars, their resistance and inductance numbers are equal to some full size vintage Stratocaster pickups - with 7K resistance and 2.0 Henries inductance.

Molded and sealed inside a high quality 8000 PSI epoxy, they are very durable, resistant to pick scratches and non-microphonic.  Incorporating a counter-wound field-activated second coil for hum-cancelling also makes them very quiet.

  The Glitterbomb is designed for cigar box guitars, but can also be used for solid body guitar applications -  making it possible to create a guitar with a very thin body.  With their 1/4" overall thickness, an instrument will not require a deep pickup cavity that can weaken the structure of some designs.  The pickup can be glued directly to a top with a few drops of E-6000 glue, or attached with double-stick foam tape.  You can make decorative pickup rings or spacers, or mount the pickup directly to the top.

Special Notice:  I have decided to cease production of all Glitterbomb pickups and focus on making my bespoke archtop guitar pickups.  When what is available here are gone these extremely clean sounding pickups will only be available as a custom order - at a bespoke price.

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