What are they like, do they have alnico magnets?
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http://www.jhs.co.uk/wilkinson.html#hum
Has anyone tried Wilkinson WVC pickups?
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Well, they're generic Korean pickups with the Wilkinson logo silkscreened onto them. I'm willing to bet that some are the same as the Sky/KA pickups and some are the same as Duncan Designed.
If the price and description is reasonable, I would expect them to have alnico magnets, but there's nothing to guarantee this.
The other Wilkinson hardware on that page is the same. Its made under licence to Trevor Wilkinson by Sung-Il foundry in Korea. The tuners are the same you see on every other Chinese and Korean guitar. The bridges are better though. The aluminium stoptail bridge, telebridge, bass bridge and steel-block trems are pretty good.
As with similar product ranges, the more expensive stuff is quite good value and the cheap stuff is skankorama. For 40 quid, I'd rather get a KA locally.
If the price and description is reasonable, I would expect them to have alnico magnets, but there's nothing to guarantee this.
The other Wilkinson hardware on that page is the same. Its made under licence to Trevor Wilkinson by Sung-Il foundry in Korea. The tuners are the same you see on every other Chinese and Korean guitar. The bridges are better though. The aluminium stoptail bridge, telebridge, bass bridge and steel-block trems are pretty good.
As with similar product ranges, the more expensive stuff is quite good value and the cheap stuff is skankorama. For 40 quid, I'd rather get a KA locally.
http://ashcustomworks.com for custom built electric guitars hand made in new zealand
cool, this guitars got them ant the wilk trem for599 at the rockshop.
http://www.jandd-guitars.com/jd-duke30.htm
http://www.jandd-guitars.com/jd-duke30.htm
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He's somewhere between "full of shit" and "a conman" on that matter.
Trev Wilkinson doesn't make anything anymore. He just designs stuff for other companies like Gotoh and Sung-Il to make on his behalf and sells them his brand trademark.
I reckon it would be a pretty good guitar for $599 though! Of course, you'd need to try every single one they have to find the best one, because some will be dodgy and others good.
I think those pickups are exactly the same as the ones shown on your first link. Probably the cheaper chrome covered ones. The VS50 trem is kind of the budget OEM version of the Gotoh VS100. Same design, slightly lower rated materials.
In other brand-hopping news - Ibanez have often used pickups labelled DiMarzio/IBZ and Duncan/IBZ on their fancier guitars. Some of these are just Korean versions of their USA pickups. I was very surprised on Monday to find that the Seymour Duncan/IBZ pickups in the SZ2020 guitar are actually genuine USA SDs with the SD/IBZ logo printed onto the top. They are infact an SD '59 in the neck and a Duncan Distortion Trembucker in the bridge!! If you have something with pickups labelled "Seymour Duncan/IBZ", don't rush to upgrade the pickups, because they're already pretty good! If they're labelled just "Duncan/Ibanez" then they may still need help.
Trev Wilkinson doesn't make anything anymore. He just designs stuff for other companies like Gotoh and Sung-Il to make on his behalf and sells them his brand trademark.
I reckon it would be a pretty good guitar for $599 though! Of course, you'd need to try every single one they have to find the best one, because some will be dodgy and others good.
I think those pickups are exactly the same as the ones shown on your first link. Probably the cheaper chrome covered ones. The VS50 trem is kind of the budget OEM version of the Gotoh VS100. Same design, slightly lower rated materials.
In other brand-hopping news - Ibanez have often used pickups labelled DiMarzio/IBZ and Duncan/IBZ on their fancier guitars. Some of these are just Korean versions of their USA pickups. I was very surprised on Monday to find that the Seymour Duncan/IBZ pickups in the SZ2020 guitar are actually genuine USA SDs with the SD/IBZ logo printed onto the top. They are infact an SD '59 in the neck and a Duncan Distortion Trembucker in the bridge!! If you have something with pickups labelled "Seymour Duncan/IBZ", don't rush to upgrade the pickups, because they're already pretty good! If they're labelled just "Duncan/Ibanez" then they may still need help.
http://ashcustomworks.com for custom built electric guitars hand made in new zealand