This special lower output model retains the warm plump lows of conventional humbuckers on the low wound strings with are definitely a few steps back from single coil territory, while having a very noticeable improvement on the 3D effect over ordinary humbuckers. It does an incredible balancing act between that typical murky humucker sound and single coil clarity and there is no mud.
Being designed for a Aussie Jazz player (Neil Youel of Sydney) who was dissatisfied with other brands he tried it's especially good for Jazz .... and it's good for stuff in-between too. One customer rated it as the best Jazz humbucker he has ever tried, saying "this one is special, it seems to have a certain magic that I have not heard before and I'm wrapped".
Kinman Humbuckers can be ordered with the optional 2 wire and 5 wire Gibson Quick Connect circuit board connectors shown below. Check inside the control cavity. More connection options below.
NEWS Flash 15-Dec-2020 - Now available with 47.5mm pole spread that suits the neck position prefectly on Gibson's and and other guitars that have a narrow 52mm spaced bridge. This has been made possible with our CSCT (Coil Spread Compensation Technology) that restores the performance that is lost when poles are spaced closer together.
Our Humbuckers cancel hum better than any other humbucker but there is another type of noise called 'buzz which can only be minimized by shielding the wiring cavities (refer to >Technical >Perfect Guitar >Shielding for newer guitars)
Introduced Dec-2011 Patent number 8,791,351 & Patent applied for
Number of parts in this pickup: 46
Number of parts in normal pickup: 24
The Baseplate is laser engraved with all Identity info and unique Serial number.
Direct replacement for conventional humbuckers such as Gibson, Duncan etc. Some guitars (a few Ibanez, some Fender Strat and one or two others) have pickups with excessively rounded corners. If a pickguard is fitted (for example Fender Strat Deluxe) please consider our Humbucker-Tron format in this Jazz-Bucker internal design.
Hook-up cable
Standard is 2 conductor shielded
Phase reversing can also be done with 3 conductor hook-up cable.
Neck 380mm / 15" long -and- Bridge 150mm /6" long for bridge.
Connection means available
Bare wire ends for soldering.
Kinman connectors for plugging into any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness- including the 2 pickup KHP-90 for
Gibson style guitars.
Gibson 2 wire & 5 wire Quick Connect circuit board connector shown below.
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Number of parts in this pickup: 46
Output Polarity
in-phase with Gibson and Copy humbuckers
in-phase with all other Kinman pickups
opposite phase to Fender Strat
Phase reversibly with the optional 3 conductor hook-up cable.
Pot & Capacitor values
Best with 250k Ohm for Volume & Tone. Many Gibson's have 300k and that works fine too as does 500k that emphasizes the highs and thins the plumb low wounds.
Normal tone cap value of 0.022µF in 63 ~ 100 volt Polyester. Smaller value lessen the severity of Treble cut, higher values increase it.
Pole spreads
that provide optimum string-over-pole alignment. Our Ordering System automatically allocates the correct pole spacing according to the bridge spacing and position that you indicate.
where the bridge saddle spacing is a standard Gibson 52mm (or less than 54mm for some other brands).
where the bridge saddle spacing on a Stratocaster is 56.4mm (vintage 6 point bridge)
Mounting options
conventional 2 screw mounting, including non-magnetic tube springs prevents interference with hum-cancelling
also available with 3 screw mounting (you specify the distance between the two top screws)
Covers and colors
