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It’s always interesting to see where my pickups end up, in this case Hamurana Guitars NZ. They make World class guitars combining looks, playability and tone. I’ve played a few – they are outstanding. Hamurana have used my pickups in a few builds and it’s always great to see what he comes up with. ThisContinue reading “Hamurana Guitars NZ”

Been having some fun making a pickup demo using a skateboard lap steel. The Mr Glyn’s “Sassy” P90 is a pickup set influenced by the Gibson P90’s of the late 50’s. The “Sassy” have a distinctive woody aggressive tone, full of character. The highs are smooth yet punchy, there’s a chiming bottom end and aContinue reading “‘Sassy’ P90 skateboard lap steel”

Delighted to have been asked on #theaustralianguitarshow to talk pickups and stuff with Ricki Wood. Join us live on Instagram next Tuesday 9:30pm NZ time.

In Ep#11 Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker I get to catch up with an old mate. Tim Stark is head luthier at Manson Guitars in the UK. Back in the late 90’s I used to teach guitar making and repair at a college in the UK and Tim was one of my students. He’s aContinue reading “Ep#11 Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker – Tim Stark, Manson Guitars”

I’m delighted to announce that The Guitar Gallery in downtown Auckland is not only stocking Mr Glyn’s Pickups but has demo guitars loaded with them for you to try Mr Glyn’s Pickups. The shop is at 95 Queen Street (Opposite Fort Street) but it isn’t easy to find so I made this short video. https://theguitargallery.co.nz/https://theguitargallery.co.nz/Continue reading “Where to try Mr Glyn’s Pickups”

In this episode I talk to Rod Capper and get to completely re-think some of the things I thought I knew about guitar construction. Rod’s years of experimentation have brought him to some interesting conclusions. Rod Capper has been making classical guitars near Auckland for 35 years. I was interested in discussing the conflict betweenContinue reading “Ep#10 Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker – Rod Capper Guitars”

I’ve been doing quite a few bass pickup re-wind jobs recently. If your pickup has stopped working or suddenly started sounding thin and quiet it may well need re-winding. This old Fender pickup was completely dead, now it lives again. Pickup re-winds are a big part of what I do. In the early days backContinue reading “‘74 Precision Bass Pickup re-wind”

Red Witch Pedals This was a real treat for me, getting to have a chat with Ben Fulton from Red Witch Pedals https://redwitchpedals.com/ . He’s a Kiwi legend and has designed some of the most imaginative pedals out there. I’m amazed at his constant evolution and pushing the boundaries. He talks about the past, hisContinue reading “Ep#9 Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker – Red Witch Pedals”

I started designing an Extreme Metal Pickup back in August with the help of Raj Singarajah from Dynamic Rage Studio in Auckland, well, today we finalized the design. It’s been a long journey but I’m delighted. I heard the final prototype in the studio this afternoon and it does everything I wanted it to. RajContinue reading “New Development- Extreme Metal Pickup”

In this episode of Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker I talk with Trevor Binford, he’s the real deal. As well as a top class guitar maker he runs a school of guitar making in Auckland NZ. I wanted to find out how he got to where he is and where he learned his craft. TurnsContinue reading “Ep.8 ‘Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker’”

A huge thanks to Nik Dobbin for his demo of MrGlyn’s Integrity vintage humbucker. Every pickup manufacturer makes a “Vintage” humbucker based on the Gibson PAF, of course they do – old Gibsons sound so good. So how come they all sound so different? Well, the simple answer is that PAF’s were all different. I’veContinue reading “Integrity vintage humbucker humbucker Demo”

Just published Ep#7 of “MrGlyn Meets Your Maker” with Kiran from FirehorseFX in Hamilton. We talk about his range of pedals, how he develops them and what cool stuff is in the pipeline including a Mu-Tron Phaser that’s got my GAS going. I even have one of his pedals on my own board. Hi all,Continue reading “Ep#7 MrGlyn Meets Your Maker”

This 7 String pickup is on its way to a customer in Sweden. For a while I’ve been working on extending my range of humbucking pickups for rock players. The Cloud Nine will do just about anything but I wanted to offer a more specific pickup for modern rock/metal. I decided to start with aContinue reading “7 String “Attitude” ready for shipping”

This old Telecaster Pickup Repair came to me for a re-wind but as you can just see from the picture the problem turned out to be outside the coil.You can just see the broken wire on the left. That blob of solder is a clue too, this pickup has been messed with. It’s very commonContinue reading “‘68 Telecaster Bridge Pickup Repair”

Hi all,just published “Ep#6 MrGlyn Meets Your Maker”with Tony Pepers from Pepers Pedals in Dunedin. Please help promote NZ made guitar gear by sharing, subscribing and telling your mates. Pepers Pedals is creating quite a name, not only in New Zealand but in the U.S. The “Dirty Tree Boost” is pushing the front end onContinue reading ““Ep#6 MrGlyn Meets Your Maker”-Pepers Pedals”

Just posted Ep#5 of “MrGlyn Meets Your Maker” on Youtube. In this one I talk with Russ from Mattsen Guitars about his handmade Resonator guitars. If you have any interest in Resonators, Slide guitar or guitar construction this one is for you. Please Subscribe and/or Share. Hi all, some of you will know how keenContinue reading “Ep#5 MrGlyn Meets Your Maker”

I’ve been doing a fair few re-winds recently, saving old pickups. This nice old bridge pickup had stopped working. It’s a Fender Strat ‘62 re-issue from 1982. You can see the corrosion around the pole pieces. This corrosion had spread through the pole and caused a break in the windings. I see this all theContinue reading “Fender Strat ‘62 re-issue from 1982”

Just posted this HSS demo on YouTube, some fantastic playing by Warren Mendonsa from Blackstratblues https://music.blackstratblues.com/ . I urge you all to go and listen to his album “When It’s Time”. The “Tui” I’ve wound a lot of Strat pickups since I started in 1995. I started off re-winding cheap pickups and then moved onContinue reading “HSS demo “Integrity” and “Tui””

Big Noise Amplification Just posted Ep#4 of MrGlyn Meets Your Maker withBig Noise Amplification. It would be great if you could help support Kiwi made musical gear by subscribing or sharing. Stephan Gilberg makes a huge range of guitar pedals from his workshop in Nelson NZ. In this episode he talks about pedal design, theContinue reading “Ep#4 MrGlyn Meets Your Maker – Big Noise Amplification”

In Episode #3 of ‘MrGlyn Meets Your Maker’ I talk to David Benavides of Benavides Guitars in Ahipara. I first played one of his handmade guitars about 5 years ago and immediately gave him a call I was so impressed. If you are an aspiring guitar maker, have an interest in guitar construction or areContinue reading “Ep#3 MrGlyn Meets Your Maker – Benavides Guitars”

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In Eposode #2 of “MrGlyn Meets Your Maker” I talk to Waylon from McPherson Stompboxes in his workshop in Papamoa. I wanted to know how he designs and builds his pedals, his philosophy and how he makes his World class Kiwi made gear. These pedals are works of art both inside and out – seemsContinue reading “MrGlyn Meets Your Maker episode #2 – McPherson Stompboxes”

Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker is a YouTube series where electric guitar pickup maker Glyn Evans talks to other makers of music gear in New Zealand. The Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker series started on YouTube in December 2020 and is intended to promote the music industry in New Zealand. Here’s the motivation behind theContinue reading “Mr Glyn Meets Your Maker”

I just found my pickups on YouTube. These are “Black Sand” humbucker size P90’s in a Les Paul in the hands of a master. https://music.blackstratblues.com/ Listen to more of my pickups on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDggiRTQyFec5KAVHsC2xA About MrGlyn’s Pickups MrGlyn’s Pickups is based near Auckland, New Zealand. My name is Glyn Evans. I have been a fullContinue reading “I love coming across recordings of my pickups on YouTube”

Postage to Australia is just NZ$30 tracked – just saying 😎 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDggiRTQyFec5KAVHsC2xA MrGlyn’s Pickups is based near Auckland, New Zealand. My name is Glyn Evans. I have been a full time pickup winder and luthier since 1995. I wound my first pickup under the guidance of legendary guitar repairer Ted Lee while studying guitar making/repairContinue reading “Postage to Australia”

This week I had an order from Trevor Binford at Binford Luthiery in Onehunga, Auckland. He runs fantastic courses where you can make a guitar from scratch. http://www.binfordluthiery.com/guitar-buildshop He wanted a set of Silver Lady Telecaster pickups for his own Tele and asked if I make a Precision Bass pickup. Well, they aren’t on theContinue reading “Pickups for new builds for Binford Luthiery”

A set of MrGlyn’s Bellbird Strat Pickups getting some national radio play in the hands of Jason Herbert. The Stratocaster has been around since 1954 and the legend continues. Reading the internet (!?) tells me there have been good and bad years or decades, guitars to avoid and ones worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.Continue reading “Bellbird Strat Pickups”

Here’s my new Stratocaster pickup ad with Roboguy. He’s just miming this one , the real playing is Warren Mendonsa aka Blackstratblues, https://music.blackstratblues.com/ if you don’t know him you need to hear his album ‘When It’s Time’. I’ve wound a lot of Strat pickups since I started in 1995. I started off re-winding cheap pickupsContinue reading “New Stratocaster pickup ad (Tui Pickups)”

Some of the more patient amongst you will have been following the work I’ve been doing on developing a humbucker for “Extreme Metal”. I’ve had a great deal of help on the extreme metal pickup help from Raj Singarajah from Dynamic Rage Studio. So far there have been 3 prototypes, each one has gone toContinue reading “New “Extreme Metal” pickup in development”

Old Höfner pickups are common visitors at the workshop for re-winds. The insulation breaks down on the winding wire they used and they become open circuit and simply stop working. The Höfner 510 Pickup is as guilty of this as any of them. Although these are built like humbuckers magnetically with 2 rows of poleContinue reading “Höfner 510 Pickup re-wind”

Just made a short promo video for the “Tui” hot Stratocaster Pickup. Thanks so much to Warren Mendonsa for his fantastic playing. https://music.blackstratblues.com/ I’m going to use it for a Facebook/Instagram ad but just thought I’d preview it on the blog first. Here’s the full version with a real human playing the “Tui” Stratocaster Pickup.

Thanks to Warren Mendonsa https://music.blackstratblues.com/ for this fantastic demo with this HSS set. The “Tui” The “Tui”- hot Strat needed to be most definitely a Strat sound – I hear plenty of Strat replacement pickups that are fine but just not Strat-ish. Secondly I wanted a bit more power, just a bit, enough to makeContinue reading “HSS set “Tui” and “Integrity””

Great to see my old mate Warren the other day and a huge privilege to have him using one of my pickups, the “Black Sand” HBS P90 pickups . If you don’t know his music yet: https://open.spotify.com/album/3f5lS13NluYHqg80qWXUHd I’ve fitted one of my ‘Black Sand’ humbucker size P90s in the neck position of his es335. Here’sContinue reading ““Black Sand” HBS P90 pickups”

I was sent an interesting faulty pickup the other day. It’s a bridge pickup from a 1983 Fender Telecaster Elite. Fender did a few unconventional things around that time and this is one of them. The Telecaster Elite pickup is an unusual shape which means that it’s not an easy pickup to replace so IContinue reading “Telecaster Elite ‘83 bridge pickup”

Seymour Duncan JB humbuckers are such a classic pickup, loud and aggressive with no shortage of high end attack. This particular one has had a hard life and finally gave up so it arrived at my workshop for repair. It’s not the first Duncan JB Re-Wind if had to do but this time I’ve takenContinue reading “Seymour Duncan JB Re-Wind”

Just updated the website – the “Black Sand” P90 is now available in Soapbar, Dogear and Humbucker Sized. Even if you’ve got a humbucker guitar you can treat yourself to some clarity with snarl P90 goodness.

A brief explanation of how treble bleed circuits work and why you might need one. With some help from Sammy the dog. Here’s a more wordy explanation of a Treble Bleed: http://mrglyn.blogspot.com/2016/10/treble-bleed-capacitors.html Treble bleed capacitors You may have noticed that when you turn the volume control down on an electric guitar it not only getsContinue reading “Treble Bleed, an explanation.”

Been doing a few pickup rewinds recently. Saving old pickups from an eternity at the back of a drawer. Most faulty pickups can be fixed, sometimes it’s just a dry joint, sometimes they need a full rewind. If you have an old dead pickup get in touch. Pickup rewinds are a big part of whatContinue reading “More pickup rewinds”

To celebrate how cool Dads are we’re offering 20% off all pickups for our NZ customers until September 6th. There’s a Coupon Code at the end of the video you can use at the website store. Now’s the time to treat your Telecaster, liven up your Les Paul, spruce up your Strat…

Ever wondered how pickups work? Here’s a brief explanation: About MrGlyn’s Pickups MrGlyn’s Pickups is based near Auckland, New Zealand. My name is Glyn Evans. I have been a full time pickup winder and luthier since 1995. I wound my first pickup under the guidance of legendary guitar repairer Ted Lee while studying guitar making/repairContinue reading “How Pickups Work”

Pinch Punch it’s the first day of Strat Month.All sorts of Strat Pickup related stuff planned for July but first here’s Roboguy (aka Mr K Ohm).