Eastwood Guitars Airline Vintage Voiced Single Coil

Single coil pickup in a humbucker looking case.

Eastwood Airline 2PU

I had the Eastwood boys install this PU in the bridge slot after I purchased it as an added extra.

In the neck slot is the original humbucker alnico that comes as standard in both slots.

The vintage voiced single coil sounds fantastic too me. I just bumped it down to an 8 rating because I have not used too many pickups and im sure there is better out there.

For the price 79 dollars for 2 of these it cant be beat. I struggle to find a use for the neck pickup with is not as hot and not as toney as this little pup. (Neck is the humbucker version)

I play White Stripes, Nirvana and AC/DC so my distortion pedal is on more often than not. The guitar is a Jack White look-a-like and with the right pedals it can sound-a-like too.

This beats my Fender Jag-stang's stock single coil and humbuckers with ease. My Tanglewood Memphis's whatevers are beaten too. And every other guitar I have played does not match up. Im not a high end guitar player and my 400GBP Jag-Stang is the most expensive I have played.

In conclusion an absolute joy to play this pickup. Sounds amazing and always makes me smile. Only an eight because im sure fore more money you could get better. But at this price im a very happy customer.

Great value for money, great sounding and cant really see too many faults with it. Im going to put my other one in the neck soon to see what two of them sound like.

see other review or eastwood website, i measured about 14 k resistance

Eastwood Twin Tone

I hate to give a bad review because i like the Eastwood Twin Tone Guitar and the Minihumbuckers that come stock in Eastwoods H44 are in fact my favourite Pickups (although i also own stuff like lollars). So i had high hopes for these "Vintage Voiced Supro Style Pickups". To my disappointment they have fairly low output, and a rather generic tone, really unspectacular no character at all, and i had to set them very close to the strings, in a lower setting they were just thin. My opinion is that they might have been a better choice as stock pickup for the TwinTone than the rather bright sounding generic Humbuckers it came with but they are really not worth buying as an upgrade for anything.

Humbucker sized single coils made to the specs of the old Valco pickups found in Arline, National, and Supro guitars of the late fifties. Passive pickups of course. I have read these pickups are best suited with 500k pots, and the guitar I put them in already had 500k pots, so i was lucky in that respect.

I purchased a new Epiphone Les Paul Special II recently for 150 bucks. It had two Epiphone humbuckers (factory) and really had no difinative tone. I was originally leaning twoards upgrading to better humbuckers, but in my research found the Eastwood Airline vintage voiced single coils. Key artists to use the original pickups they were designed after are the legendary Jimmy Reed, Jack White, and one of my personal heros, Hound Dog Taylor. With further research, I came across Myrareguitars.com, and they were selling a set for the price of one ($79.00+necessary fees.)

The tonal range of these pickups is incredible. The neck pickup delivers warm bass notes and excellent mid range. The bridge delivers crying highs and is versitle enough to carry out rythm duties along with soloing. There is a full range of tones available. I play in many different styles, blues, jazz, rock, funk, folk, avante garde, and experimental, and these pickups do all well. Very responsive to varried picking techniques. I play with a pick, my thumb, fingers and whatever else comes my way. I have only played these through a newer Vox AC30 CC2. I have only used the amp's natural overdrive and reverb. Bright clean tones and growling dirty. I would have to give my nod to installing these as a set. I know to most of us this is common sense, but anytime one installs new pickups into a guitar, the height of the pickup will need to be adjusted to deliver the best sound and volume. For my experince the neck pickup was perfect, but the bridge was a little thin until I raised it up to match the output of the neck.

My overall rating of this pickup set is very high, and I am quite surprised that I appear to be the first to write a review of them here. I have been playing somewhere near 25 years. If I ever needed to replace them I would definately get them again. With just playing them through an amp without effects and being able to create so many sounds already, I would have to say I am completely satisfied.