Naturally, as the name implies, it is the fully balanced companion pickup for the wonderful Bridge Blaster and it has the sonic character to match. Lots of thick sounding thump from the low wound strings and noticeably darker sweet plain strings, even in the high register. It's also good as a companion pickup for PAF type bridge humbuckers and P-90's.
The position 2 sound (bridge + neck) with a Bridge Blaster produces a very nice, strong cluck sound. It's more intense than the classic Tele B+N sound.
Magnet stagger available only for fretboard radius between 7" and 14" until further notice. Our amazing Gen-2 neck pickup design together with another Kinman invention which dramatically increases magnetic efficiency allows us to wind a great sounding Zero-Hum neck pickup with incredible loudness, even though it's a small pickup. We recommend you change to the Technical Tab to the right for important stuff you should know about this new model.
Laser engraved stuff so you won't forget.
Having super high output means at 23mm it's 3mm taller than our original Gen-1 models. There should not be a problem accommodating it in a modern USA Telecaster.
Exquisite Alnico sound unlike any other and this pickup has Kinman's propriety Alnico low strength magnets, like all our Fender type pickups, so string pull is minimized, sustain is longer and there is less rattle and buzz from the strings crashing into the frets from excessive magnet pull.
Some people will call these noiseless Telecaster pickups but Kinman prefers to describe them correctly as Zero-Hum Telecaster pickups. That's because there are 2 types of noise, Hum which is cancelled in the pickup and Buzz which can only be minimized by shielding the wiring cavities (refer to >Technical >Perfect Guitar >Shielding for newer guitars
Number of parts in this pickup: 167
Number of parts in normal pickup: 10
Number of parts in other brand noiseless: 23
US Patents 5,668,520 6,103,986 7,022,909 8,791,351
** Alnico-K is a unique proprietary Alnico rod magnet developed by Kinman in 1985. It is Alnico-5 but has 40% less string pull than Alnico-5 so sustain is longer and there is much less clatter from string crash and no Strat-itis string warble.
* Fender and Telecaster and Tele are registered Trade Marks of Fender Musical Instrument Corp, Inc. Kinman is not associated with FMIC but they kindly permit us to refer to their Trade Marks to reference our products.
Adjustment requirements
Please refer to >Technical >Adjust & Setup.
Cavity depth required
Connection means available
Hook-up cable
Dimensions
Output Polarity:
Pot & Capacitor values
Magnet spread
Magnet Staggers
Mounting hardware included
Cover
We highly recommend consulting the Install Guide in Tech Info even if you think you know it all. Kinmans' require specialized knowledge and sometimes there is updated info. There is also a handy wiring diagram available.
We also highly recommend consulting the Adjust & Set-up page in Tech Info so you get the best out of your Kinman pickups.
** Alnico-K is a unique proprietary Alnico rod magnet developed by Kinman in 1985. It is Alnico-5 but has 40% less string pull than Alnico-5 so sustain is longer and there is much less clatter from string crash and no Strat-itis string warble.
* Fender and Telecaster and Tele are registered Trade Marks of Fender Musical Instrument Corp, Inc. Kinman is not associated with FMIC but they kindly permit us to refer to their Trade Marks to reference our products.
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