335ish 12 string Clone from closing down sale

[tonyw]

Pickups have been selected and paid for

Bill Lawrence (Wilde Bill) L90, i picked the 4 henry inductance rating for the bridge and the 2.8H for the neck.

Independent review

"the L-90 is a humbucker that has a very clean, clear sound, almost like a single-coil. It's got a great, open, vintage sound, that you don't expect from a humbucker. It's great for blues, jazz, country, and rock. Most guys love it as a neck pickup because it's open and not muddy, but plenty use it as a bridge pickup too, Joe Perry and Buck Dharma love this pickup."

The 2.8H is around 6.5k, the 4.0H is around 7k its puts them in that Vintage PAF type of range but these things a very very clear.

These are a blade pickup so no problems about the 12 string alignment.

What the late Bill Lawrence himself had to say about them.

the L-90! The gleaming stainless steel blades guide a tightly focused magnetic window in a perfectly structured Alnico 5 circuit for unparalleled accuracy and with low magnetic attraction and complete immunity to noise. The pickup is responsive to the finest nuances in playing technique, smoothly balanced from crisp highs down to a detailed, powerful low end.

His lovely wife Becky makes the pickups these days

What you got with Bill was no industry BS, absolutely none at all (a bit like meself haha), its why over the years i have bought so many pickups of him, and now Becky. I have a lot of his pickups in my collection that i havent even put in a guitar yet. I used to many many years ago pry him for information about pickups as i wanted to wind my own and he soon rather abruptly at times dispelled alot of myths



A link to the blades, i nearly went the L500 but these are cleaner

http://wildepickups.com/Wilde_Bill_s_Twin_Blades.html