The Fastest Tone Upgrade There Is
NEW PICKUPS, WIRED LIKE WE MEAN IT.
A pickup swap is the biggest tone change per dollar in the game, when the solder work is clean and the heights are set right. Ours are.
Straight Talk
THE INSTALL MATTERS AS MUCH AS THE PICKUP
Players spend two hundred dollars on a pickup and then lose half of it to a cold solder joint, a miswired switch, or a pickup sitting a quarter inch too low. The install is half the tone.
We wire to spec with clean joints, shield the cavity when it needs it, and set heights by measurement first, then by ear with the guitar plugged in. You leave with the sound you paid for.
We build our own instruments with Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio, Gibson, and Bill Lawrence pickups, so these platforms are home turf. Coil splits, series switching, out-of-phase: if it can be wired, this bench has done it.
On The Bench
WHAT AN INSTALL INCLUDES
Clean Solder Work
Proper joints on pots, switches, and grounds. No cold joints, no globs.
Height Calibration
Set by measurement, then dialed by ear, plugged in, on both pickups.
Switching Done Right
Splits, series/parallel, out-of-phase, or the spin-split wiring our own builds use.
Cavity Shielding
Where hum lives, conductive shielding kills it.
Pot & Cap Matching
250K, 500K, or vintage-style values matched to the pickup, chosen on purpose.
Active Systems
Active pickups, battery boxes, and preamps installed clean.
Common Jobs
SWAPS WE DO WEEKLY
Humbucker upgrades in imports that deserve better
Single coil to noiseless without losing the sparkle
P90 installs and dog-ear conversions
Full HSS and HH rewires with new switching
Treble bleed installs so volume rolls stay bright
While It Is Open
WORTH DOING AT THE SAME TIME
Pot and jack replacement
Scratchy pots and crackling jacks die on the same visit.
Full shielding job
The cavity is already open. Kill the hum for good.
Setup after the swap
New pickups deserve a guitar that plays as good as it sounds.
Related work on the bench
Brookfield · Danbury · New Milford · Nationwide Ship-In
LOCAL SERVICE. NATIONAL REPUTATION.
We are the trusted repair shop for musicians across Connecticut, serving Brookfield, Danbury, New Milford, and beyond. And our quality speaks for itself: we regularly accept ship-in repairs from NYC, Boston, and across the USA. Your guitar deserves the best, no matter where you are.
YOUR GUITAR, DONE RIGHT.
From ground-up custom builds to critical, tour-ready repairs, we have the master-level expertise to bring your vision to life. Stop in the shop.
14 Del Mar Dr, Brookfield, CT · (203) 775-6989