Strat and Tele Pickups In 3 Basic Flavors
'54 SPECIAL • Smooth, clear vintage tone that is not harsh or brittle. • These pickups feature specially ground and processed alnico magnets, which are a slightly larger diameter, as found on the earliest original pickups. They are designed to provide a vintage appearance on the guitar, but feature the same sophisticated construction methods as the standard Vintage Plus pickups for richer tone and slightly higher output. VINTAGE PLUS • Rich, warm tone with high output and low noise. • High output versions of standard pickups, without the ”muddy” tone that usually results from other brands of hot pickups. They feature the full dynamic range and clear tone of vintage style pickups, but with extended bass, midrange response and smooth balanced sound. SUPER 90 BRIDGE PICKUPS • High output single coil sound with a full, balanced treble response • Specially designed bridge pickups for Strat or Tele with the warm, clear tone and high output of a Gibson P-90. The feature original-type screw pole pieces and fit without any modification to the guitar. Super 90's are a more practical alternative to modifying a guitar to fit humbucking pickups and provide a better match for single coil neck pickups. Gibson Type Pickups In Two More Basic Flavors Z-90 • Super output single coil fits standard humbucker mounting rings. • The original single-coil replacement for full sized humbuckers. Huge, dynamic sound and ultra-wide tonal response. CLASSIC HUMBUCKERS • Classic style humbuckers with Vintage Plus™ sound • A full line of new pickups with classic vintage-style appearance, but with improved Vintage Plus construction, fine tuned for greater tonal range and more expressive response.
New Stuff Going On Around Here
The Infamous Banned Ad has been turned into a poster We worked up this ad for Vintage Guitar magazine a couple of years ago but they refused to print it, so after many requests, we just got around to having it made into this extra slick 18x24 poster, printed on heavy stock. We'd be happy to send you one for a mere $10 with your pickup order or $13 boxed up and shipped by itself.
Reduced Shipping Rates For International Orders By using new lightweight packaging materials, we can now ship most international orders by Global Priority Mail for a mere $15.
All kinds of new parts and stuff: We can now supply all the right stuff for properly installing pickups, the correct pots, caps, switches, covers, mounting rings, etc. The parts and details are not yet on the website, but we can quote you the particulars with your order. Fender brand Strat parts kits (knobs/covers, etc) $20 black/white/aged white. Fender brand Strat covers $3 each black/white/mint/parchment. Gibson brand soapbar VP-90 cover $14 each, cream or black. Gibson brand mounting rings for Humbuckers and Z-90's $7 cream or black. Fender and Harmonic Design strat pickguards (USA , correct fit) $25-$55, black/white/mint/parchment/white pearl/tortoise. Handmade Tele pickguards (correct fit, USA) 5-screw. Fits all Fender Teles, no extra pickup holes, 3 layer blk/wht/blk, single layer white or parchment, 4 layer tortoise or pearl. Correct type and value pots and switches $5-$15 each. GHS 'Progressive' strings if you want 'em. The same sets we use for evaluating guitar tone 9's/10's $5 Handmade Tele Pickup covers for V+ and Ministrat, white/black/mint/cream $20. pearl/tortoise/silver $25 Strat pickguard assemblies. Two new versions of fully wired pickguards using premium components with controls optimized for Vintage Plus or '54 Special pickups. More useful sounds and control than the stock setup. $100-$150 depending on color choices (plus the pickups). Strat Z-90 guards with specialized controls are in the works.
Recent updates to pickups: STP pickups - new style now fits inside Strat pickup cover. Same great tone now matches the look of other Strat pickups. Super-90 pickups - now even quieter than before. Classic Humbuckers - new version includes 3 conductor cable for easy coil-tapping or wiring to PRS 5-way switch. Z-90 pickups - improved balance between neck and bridge, more colors, available March 2007 Tele neck pickups - more colors: white/black/mint/cream/pearl/tortoise/silver.
	It's amazing! Miracle tortilla with image of The King found in the Harmonic Design kitchen. We put it up on Ebay and the bids were getting up around $34.28, but then it was lunch time and well...
	We get a lot of questions about pickups on Ebay.
	We don't usually run ads, but we did one up for Vintage Guitar recently. Click on it if you would like see.
	Some good press Gretchen Wenner of the Bakersfield Californian recently did a comprehensive article on Harmonic Design and Scott.
	Brand spanking new Chromotone Tele neck pickup A chrome Tele neck pickup that sounds great? They said it couldn't be done. Even WE said it. But here it is, the CHROMOTONE!
	Vintage Plus VP-90’s Okay, okay! You guys keep bugging us to get Scott to work his magic on P-90's, so here ya go. It's the VP-90. Fits in soap bar covers and has all the HD benefits you’ve come to expect. Also they sound really good!
	4-way selector switch for Teles
	Mini-Strat Neck Pickup for Teles Just another thing somebody should have invented a long time ago. It's as close as we could get to stuffing a Strat pickup into that little hole without routing anything or cheesing up the pickguard. We got pretty damn close.
	We figured out a way to get this snappy aged nickle finish for the Classic Humbuckers. Same price as non-aged.
	Hey! Isn't that my man Otis Rush using Harmonic Design Classic Humbuckers? Why yes, I believe it is. How cool is that? And here's a couple more blues guys using our stuff. • John Scofield • Magic Slim • Robert Junior Lockwood • Coco Montoya • Buddy Whittington with John Mayal
	Redd Volkaert, who plays his fanny off with Merle Haggard has been using Z-90's on his custom guitar for a while. Now he's also using the Mini-Strat neck pickup and a '54 Special bridge pickup on his workingman's Tele. And he said some real nice things about 'em too.

We're always happy to have some more good press.

In his 'Choosing a Pickup' article in Vintage Guitar magazine, Tony Nobles top rates the Harmonic Design Super 90 "Almost ideal, my favorite."

ToneQuest Magazine's cover story about Z-90's says, "The tone of these pickups is not to be believed."

Guitar Player magazine says,"The punchiest and most robust sounds were delivered by Harmonic Design Z-90 pickups."

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