Kinman - Humbucker Pickup Neck

Technical & Application info:

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Direct replacement for conventional humbuckers such as Gibson, Duncan etc.  Some guitars (a few Ibanez, some Fender Strat and one or two others) have pickups with excessively rounded corners.  If a pickguard is fitted (for example Fender Strat Deluxe) a small modification to the pickguard opening to accommodate a Kinman humbucker is well worth the effort since Kinman's sound so much better.  The cavity in the body is suitable as it is.

Hook-up cable

• Standard is 2 conductor shielded with robusted ends
• ESSC splitting version has one two conductor and one 3 conductor shielded cable with robust ends.
• See our 2n1 Multi-Sound for splitting to ultimate single coil sound.
• 380mm / 15" long.

Connection means available

• Bare wires for soldering.
• Kinman connectors for plugging into any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness.- including the 2 pickup KHP-90 harness for Les Paul style guitars.
• Gibson 2 wire and 5 wire Quick Connect plug for Gibson circuit board harness.

Output Polarity: 

• in-phase with Gibson and Copy humbuckers
• in-phase with all other Kinman pickups
• opposite phase to Fender Strat
• ESSC versions can not be phase reversed and must be specially ordered as such.

Pot & Capacitor values

• Best with 500k Ohm for Volume & Tone.  Many Gibson's have 300k and that works fine too as does 250k.
• Normal tone cap value of 0.022µF in 63 ~ 100 volt Polyester.  Smaller value lessen the severity of Treble cut, higher values increase it.

Pole spreads

that provide optimum string-over-pole alignment.  Our Ordering System automatically allocates the correct pole spacing according to the bridge spacing you indicate.

• where the bridge saddle spacing is a standard Gibson 52mm (or less than 54mm for some other brands).
  • 47.5mm for neck position (introduced March 2021)
  • 50mm for bridge position
• where the bridge saddle spacing on a Stratocaster is 56.4mm (vintage 6 point bridge)
  • 50mm for neck position
  • 53mm for bridge position

Mounting options

• conventional 2 screw mounting,
• also available with 3 screw mounting (you specify the distance between the two top screws)

Covers and colors

• Open top Natural Nickel-Silver, highly recommended and have zero impact on sonic performance
• Closed top Natural Nickel-Silver, have low impact on sonic performance 
• Electro real Gold plating on closed top covers does impact on treble frequencies.
• Various colored top plates are available for open top covers (Black, Cream, White and 6 different Pearloid colors) with clear, scratch resistant protector plate.
• Kinman humbuckers are engineered differently without molded butyrate plastic bobbins.  Removing covers will not reveal bobbins and we advise against it.