Cavalier '51 P-Bass® - The single coil electric bass pickup that started it all for replacing the double string bass and giving rock and country the kick in the pants it sorely needed. 12000 turns of 42AWG over A5 rod magnets for added volume and sweeping range of tone. Black (default) or ivory string (optional) wrapped, supplied with either body mount screws or pickguard 6-32 machine screws, both come with height tubing.
NOTE: The current stock Squier® Bronco® Bass uses a STRAT GUITAR pickup (yeesh!) and real '51 P-Bass® pickup top flatware will not fit without some sanding of the pickguard's pickup rout to open it up just a little.
Shipping for each entire USA order is $10.00 USPS Priority. USPS International 1st Class is $14.00 for Canada and $19.00 for the rest of planet earth.
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NOTE: The current stock Squier® Bronco® Bass uses a STRAT GUITAR pickup (yeesh!) and real '51 P-Bass® pickup top flatware will not fit without some sanding of the pickguard's pickup rout to open it up just a little.
Cavalier '57 P-Bass® - The next generation P-Bass® pickup that's dual coil and humbucking. 12000 turns of 42AWG over A5 rod magnets for each coil/bobbin. Volume and tone to please the most discriminating P-Bass® artist. Supplied with black plastic covers, body mount screws and neoprene cushion height pads.
Shipping for each entire USA order is $10.00 USPS Priority. USPS International 1st Class is $14.00 for Canada and $19.00 for the rest of planet earth.
The Cavalier '51 P-Bass® single coil pickup has a default North top polarity - the South needle of a magnetic compass will point to the top of the pickup. The Cavalier '57 P-Bass® pickup is a dual coil pickup with one coil built as RWRP, for series humbucking. Polarity changes on any Cavalier is an option at no charge. All coils are light wax potted by default for increased lively harmomics. Leads are black, yellow or ivory cloth covered "push up" stranded wire. Black plastic covers for the '57 P-Bass® included. Wood mounting screws and height rubber tubing and/or foam pads included.
Cavalier Pickups Build - Cavalier Tele®, Esquire®, AR90 (P90®)and '51 P-Bass® pickups are all built to respective vintage footprint specifications and all will properly fit into Fender® guitars and basses, or any guitars/basses built to Fender® pickup footprint specifications. I hand build all Cavalier bobbins with vulcanized fiber board flatware, AlNiCo V or III rod magnets, hand guided 42AWG or 43AWG coil wire using a custom coil winding machine of my own build, with Red Lion infrared trigger and digital counter. The Lion bridge pickup has a steel base plate and its wire coil is wound with cotton string. The Lioness and Fat Lioness Tele® neck pickup wire coil is covered with black or ivory/parchment string. All Cavalier non-tapped pickups have cloth covered lead wire. Light wax potting (which is the default for all Cavalier Pickups) will suppress feedback and microphonics well enough for the vast majority of guitarists and will allow pickups to render "lively" and "resonant" sounds with increased harmonics. Heavy wax potting is an option that may help those who play at really high full tilt boogie volumes with gobs of gain. In doing so, some of the "liveliness" of the overall sound is somewhat suppressed. Wiring - black cloth covered leads are the coil ground and yellow cloth covered leads are the coil hot side.
Using a simple magnetic compass to check single coil pickup polarity ...
In the image below, the North needle of the compass points to the top of the Cavalier Lioness Tele neck pickup, showing that pickup as SOUTH top poled ...
In the image below, the South needle of the compass points to the top of the Cavalier Lion Tele bridge pickup, showing that pickup as NORTH top poled ...
(Note - "Fender", "Tele", "Esquire", "Strat", "P-Bass", "J-Bass" are all copyrights of FMIC, "Firebird" and "P90" are copyrights of Gibson, Inc.
Cavalier Pickups
Rob DiStefano
58 Linden Avenue
Park Ridge, NJ 07656
201-573-0080
[email protected]
The real Cavalier pups!
Pickup Polarity and Wind Direction - Unless customer specified, all Lion bridge pickups are wound counter-clockwise and are top North poled (a magnetic compass South needle will point to the pickup's top), the Lion King, Fat Lion King, Lioness, and Fat Lioness Tele® neck pickups are wound clockwise and are top South poled (reverse polarity, or RWRP, from bridge pickups to allow noiseless parallel humbucking mode when both pickups are selected).
In the image below, the North needle of the compass points to the top of the Cavalier Lioness Tele neck pickup, showing that pickup as SOUTH top poled ...
In the image below, the South needle of the compass points to the top of the Cavalier Lion Tele bridge pickup, showing that pickup as NORTH top poled ...
As with most vintage style single coil pickups, the pickup height distance between the top of the pickup and the guitar strings is critical to tone - closer to the string for more volume and punch, further away for less volume and more acoustic sweetness.
Special Lion Info - There is no ground lead base plate strap with all Lion bridge pickups. Included with all Lions is a wired ground washer that slips over any one of the Lion's mounting screws and is soldered to the back of any pot. After putting a Lion mounting screw in the Tele/Esquire® bridge, slip on the wired washer over the screw, then slip on the rubber height adjustment. Without pickup ground strapping, the leads for all Lions can be swapped within the control cavity to fix any possible phasing issue. ....
Lion Tele/Esquire® bridge pickups may have unusually high coil wire turn counts, therefore their tall bobbins are packed full. Take care installing a Lion into its bridge mount, insuring the string wrap and wire beneath it aren't crushed.
Cavalier Pickups
Rob DiStefano
58 Linden Avenue
Park Ridge, NJ 07656
201-573-0080
[email protected]
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