VooDoo Pickups from Peter Florance

i've heard them and played them in a historic les paul (the voodoo 59s)

they sounded superb!

 

Has anyone tried his Tele pups?

 

I bought a set of his Strat pickups years ago and they're scary good.

 

I have them is my Les Paul and they are the only pickups in any of my guitars that will never be swapped out .They are my favorites!:RoCkIn

 

I almost bought a Baker B1 that had the Voodoo 59 set in them...I was amazed at the sweet PAF bloom they exhibited and often regret not buying what I thought was an over-priced instrument. I'm more of a rock/metal guy and they didn't have enough crunch for me, but for cleans & medium grind it was beyond beautiful.

I've also checked out several LP replicas at Ludlow Music in SoHo, and while tonally they were excellent pieces I found the nitro finish Peter put on them far too gooey & sticky for my tastes...

 

yes

 

Ludlow's had some of those guitars for almost 2 years that I know of - their prices are a little too high IMO

 

OH, yeah! mightyfine!!!!

 

I've got a 60GR bridge pu in one of my Tele's. It has quite a bit more beef than the average vintage-style pu. I really like it for rock-stuff.

 

I've batted about .500 with Florance and thus quit using him for pickup needs. Among the good, I got a set of dog ear P90s that were great, I have a tele 60's lead pickup that's really good (albeit a "pig" - real fat sounding), a good sounding tele front pickup that's supposed to be "strat" sounding. The tele front pup was on the second try. I ran out of luck with him on soap bars, they were screwing up the order(s) and ultimately I ended up with a real crappy set of soap bar P90s. Difficult to get to communicate with, but very nice on the phone when you could get him. I think he got really, really busy. I just decided there are enough other really good winders out there not to deal with him anymore. Others undoubtably have had much better experiences. Oh, and I've played a nice gibson historics V that a friend owns that had voodoos in them and liked them.

Regarding tele front pickups I've been thru a vintage circa '60 pickup, an older barden, the two voodoos, a hamel tall neck, a custom wound (hotter) dimarzio twang king and now a Don Mare stelly. The DM stelly so far is my favorite. If Don's didn't/doesn't work out, I was going to bite the bullet and go sans cover. So far, that hasn't been necessary. Alot of the above pickups had a lot going for them and were good in their own right, but the DM is just more of what I'm looking for (something that responds to pick attack and tone/vol knob setting like a strat front pickup but still maintains a certain amount of tele-ness).

 

I have them in my Brian Monty Bluesmaster. Great pickups for a great guitar.

 

I currently have an A3 Voodoo 59 in the neck of my R7 (double cream). I remember a few years ago before WCR took off, Voodoo was the big flavor boutique pup. I thought Peter stopped making them, or took a time out or something like that.

 

The previous owner of my ES-345 had '59s installed. They are, without a doubt, the most responsive pickups I've ever heard/felt. I don't know whether it's all pickup, or the combination of p/u and the hollow body, but it's just a wonderful thing to play that guitar. Unfortunately, I hate the way the open coil p/u looks on that guitar, but I'm afraid to do anything that might disturb the "magic."

 

Love his humbuckers, hated the customer service...after he had my money, no pickups, no email reply. Had to file a claim with paypal which he then immediately refunded my $. Too bad as I've had 3 sets of his humbuckers.